These GIFs Show How Sriracha Sauce Is Made

[Svnla]

Interesting.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[Printer Bandit]

 

[disappoint]

Sriracha has taken our taste buds hostage. Every single year, the company behind the beloved hot sauce, Suk Sum Dong Foods, sees at least a 20% business increase.
The sauce of sun-ripened chilies, garlic, and sugar, packaged in a convenient squeeze bottle, adds spice to mask the horrible flavor of almost anything that would ordinarily taste like ass because it was botched by Gordon Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen TV show rejects: soups, sauces, pastas, pizzas, hot dogs, hamburgers, and chowmein, just to name a few.

hmmm:\

 

[Mai72]

What would happen if you put a little splash in your eye?

Hey! We should put that on You Tube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toJDo046mm4 D:

 

[Kaido]

Repost!

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=36006415

 

[ThinClient]

Very cool! Thanks for posting this.

 

[Tiamat]

Talk about leaving your home country with aspirations of the legendary American Dream, worked his ass off, and achieved it. He must be making mad loot since demand only increases year after year.

 

[Svnla]

Our local Wal Mart used to have these bottles, especially the ones with the wide mouth flat top but they were not there anymore. Their prices were very good too. <sad panda>

 

[natto fire]

Our local Wal Mart used to have these bottles, especially the ones with the wide mouth flat top but they were not there anymore. Their prices were very good too. <sad panda>

I've heard it doesn't take too many hipsters to ruin a good thing. Maybe they shipped the bigger bottles where they could get a few more dollars. Diesel isn't free you know.

 

[nickbits]

I thought the headline said animated gifs and waited a little too long for them to start moving :/

 

[LTC8K6]

http://news.yahoo.com/california-city-declares-sriracha-maker-nuisance-043828172.html

They just declared the factory a public nuisance...

 

[Pardus]

What would happen if you put a little splash in your eye?

Hey! We should put that on You Tube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toJDo046mm4 D:

He drank 3 bottles of Sriracha, he is gonna have flames coming out his ass.

 

[WelshBloke]

He drank 3 bottles of Sriracha, he is gonna have flames coming out his ass.

Meh. Its not all that hot. Its more of a ketchup replacement for people with tastebuds than a hot sauce.

If my 8 year old squirts ridiculous amounts of it on his burgers it's not a hot sauce.

 

[edro]

I thought the headline said animated gifs and waited a little too long for them to start moving :/

They ARE animated.

 

[darkxshade]

This stuff used to be pretty spicy. I remember about 10 years ago that I'd dip food into the sauce cause it would burn my tongue, now I just squirt a ton of it on my food and barely notice any heat. I have a feeling they tweaked the recipe a bit over the years with its growing popularity and chile shortages that they used some kind of substitute. Or maybe the ones I had 10 years ago were imported from Vietnam and not the ones produced in the US.

 

[alkemyst]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha

 

[BurnItDwn]

Sriracha is ok, but, Hoy Fong's Sambal Oelek is a lot better IMO. It's got about double the heat, and it doesn't have the garlic flavor, instead it's more or less a pure pepper flavor.

 

[blackdogdeek]

After all that robotic/mechanical manipulation on the factory lines, why do they use a human for the boxing? That seems like one of the less complicated steps. Is it also for QA or something at the same time maybe?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

After all that robotic/mechanical manipulation on the factory lines, why do they use a human for the boxing? That seems like one of the less complicated steps. Is it also for QA or something at the same time maybe?

cheaper to have human workers do the simple tasks that are actually humanly possible

 

[Howard]

cheaper to have human workers do the simple tasks that are actually humanly possible

Depends on the ROI.

Maybe they're in the process of automating that too. Big projects take a while.

 

[Howard]

Depends on the ROI.

Maybe they're in the process of automating that too. Big projects take a while.

The project cost for automation of the case packing of those bottles would be approx $150-$600k installed, depending on the throughput of the packaging line.

It really is strange that the palletizing is automated but the case packing isn't, though.

 

[Drako]

Cool GIFsl.

Are they still getting booted out of Irwindale?