from pad thai to french fries sriracha
sauce goes with everything and it is
very quickly becoming the number one
condiment that everyone must have
because of this it's important to know
all there is to know about this super
chilli sauce so here are the top 10
facts about Sriracha hot sauce sriracha
euphoria there is some debate among food
lovers as to whether hot sauces are good
for you one thing we do get from this
sauce is a little natural high chili
peppers contain chemicals known as
capsaicin and die hydro capsaicin these
chemicals are what give the chilies
their heat and spice and are also the
chemicals that burn when they come into
contact with things like skin and eyes
which is why it's used in things like
pepper spray however what capsaicin also
does is it tricks the nervous system
into believing it's ingested something
hot and therefore the brain releases
endorphins throughout the body which
give us a natural high and leaves a lot
of people in a momentary state of
euphoria and that is why capsaicin is
also used in many pain relief products
George likes his chicken spicy sriracha
in space the final frontier that's right
this tasty chili sauce has even been to
space to the International Space Station
to be more precise hot sauce according
to astronauts space does something weird
to taste due to microgravity the body's
fluids realign which can cause
congestion and therefore can reduce
taste by up to 70% then of course there
is the actual state of living in the
space station lack of fresh air
stinky astronauts and working equipment
all of this can affect the taste of
anything gentlemen want to tell the
viewers what's cooking that is why many
astronauts have specifically asked for
sriracha sauce to be taken with them as
the spicy sauce is apparently still
tasty in outer space so much so that
NASA has been sending the rooster sauce
favorite to the international space
station for
years.the - food company loves this fact
and if you visit their Factory in
California you'll see an image of
sriracha sauce floating in zero gravity
no advertising department
what hot sauce - foods founder David
Tran not only doesn't have an
advertising department for his famous
rooster sauce but he's never really
advertised it at all
Tran wanted his sauce to become popular
by word-of-mouth in other words why
spend millions on advertising when
people will sing its praises for you I
really liked Rocha when David Tran first
started to introduce his hot sauce he
wasn't actually going for the mainstream
masses because the sauce relied on
specific chilies for which supply was
limited at the time Tran didn't want to
struggle in a logistical nightmare in
which he couldn't keep up with demand
what he actually did was target Asian
shops around the California area making
sure he had a steady income first by the
1990s - sriracha sauce started to become
popular and it wasn't long before a cult
following grew around it and today it's
one of the best-loved condiments in the
world sriracha is not a trademark what
am I gonna do with my sriracha say one
more hipster thing and I'm gonna shove
you in your vintage bassoon case it is
surprising in this day and age that a
company can release a product without
going through a vigorous trademark or
copyright process there have been so
many high-profile court cases involving
such things McDonald's has famously been
involved in many copyright disputes over
the years yet all of these issues and
potential problems never worried - foods
boss David Trend it turns out that he
had no intention of copywriting the
sauce as he thought that word of mouth
was better than anything else and he was
right Muraki having other companies like
Heinz Tabasco and even fast-food chains
like jack-in-the-box and Subway all used
the sriracha name all it does is promote
the Huy Fong sauce as that is easily the
most recognizable version of this sauce
this car has so
sriracha and it's we even christened
this with sriracha sriracha fakes this
is the Mandarin oh it's it's it's
embarrassing height relative this metric
in 2005 - foods started to receive
complaints about their sauce it started
out with a few and then the complaints
began to avalanche what the customers
were complaining about was their beloved
sriracha sauce didn't taste like it used
to
in fact the customers demanded to know
why they had changed their recipe and
some customers implied that the company
had actually started to water down their
sauce good a bad taste in my mouth yeah
obviously Huy Fong foods had done no
such thing
so they asked the customers to send back
the source and they would investigate
what had happened it turns out that the
bottles were knockoffs with far inferior
ingredients
- foods tried to find out who had made
the sauce but they had no luck the
company later received a phone call
saying that there was a large quantity
of Huy Fong foods products in a parking
lot surprise after some investigation it
was revealed that the products were more
counterfeit sauce the police discovered
an electronic warehouse owner was behind
the scam he was arrested and pleaded
guilty to possession of contraband some
contraband here but nothing to get it
twisted This Means War
I don't know if you heard but they were
thinking of closing the plant as Huy
Fong foods really started to explode
with their sriracha sauce they quite
rightly needed to add a new factory to
their expanding Empire so they opened a
new factory in Irwindale however the
excitement of expanding didn't last long
as complaints from the locals started to
come in the main problem was that the
residents of Irvin Dale didn't like the
smell coming from the factory in fact
they described it as offensive odors
that were making their eyes water and
burning the insides of their mouths and
throats the town of Irwindale got
together and filed a lawsuit against -
foods with the Los Angeles County
Superior Court I mean this thing is
really freaking me out
I feel like it's gonna come to life in
the middle of the night kill me the
lawsuit dragged on for months
irritating everyone involved
particularly - Foods founder David Tran
during the battle Tran expressed his
anger by comparing the local government
to communist Vietnam and then proceeded
to hang a banner on his factory that
read no tear gas made here the city
eventually dropped the lawsuit but the
war didn't stop there eventually the
city was added again and filed another
lawsuit against the company this time
the city of Ur won Dale was suing Huy
Fong foods for nearly half a million
dollars in unpaid fees he stinks and I
don't like him the reason for this
lawsuit according to the city was that
before the factory opened the company
and the city had struck a deal in which
Huy Fong foods would make a contribution
each year as payment in lieu of taxes
while the company paid the first three
payments happily after the first lawsuit
David Tran didn't feel so generous with
his money so he stopped the payments a
year later and the company counter sued
the city claiming that the city's
original agreement was with a separate
company Hoyt wrong Irwin Dale LLC which
was no longer the operations name we
hope that peace will come soon the
Vietnam War saved sriracha sauce sort of
we are not advocating war in any way
here but history is littered with
inventions and discoveries that we use
in our everyday lives that come out of
the horrors of war canned food glue the
microwave oven and even the internet
have all come as a direct result of war
internet so health and sriracha sauce
could well be added to that list Tran
had a dream and that dream was to create
the Asian ketchup his family owned a
piece of land in Saigon and they grew
chillies it seemed like the perfect
start however because of the Vietnam War
the market was saturated and no one was
buying chilies so being a resourceful
kind of person Tran decided to make his
ketchup out of the chilies and he sold
them and use
Gerber baby food jars he didn't have a
name for the sauce yet but he did draw a
rooster on the jars the sauce wasn't a
huge success but it was enough to get
trans juices flowing once the city of
Saigon fell Tran and his family suffered
from the communist authorities as
merchant capitalists were met with
disapproval
so Tran converted his wealth into gold
and moved his family out of the country
many years later David Tran gave an
interview with stating that if things
had not changed so much he would have
stayed in Vietnam it was a beautiful and
peaceful place we have to go back it's
all about the chilies yeah sure
unlike many other sauces and condiments
on the market today - food sriracha
sauce doesn't have a huge list of
ingredients that's because their sauce
is all about those Chili Peppers the
bottle even looks like one after all no
the red body and green top of the hot
sauce bottle is no accident as Huy Fong
foods are proud of their peppers and
love to show it off made with fresh
peppers the sauce doesn't add any water
or artificial flavors only some garlic
to give it that distinct taste even
though the recipe for sriracha sauce
hasn't changed in years
the sauce is actually getting spicier
that's because the chilies they harvest
are getting spicier with each crop
Santiago Chile incidentally the chili
pepper is used to make sriracha sauce
still aren't as hot as the legendary
jalapeno pepper according to the
Scoville scale which measures spice and
heat in food the sriracha peppers come
in somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000
points whereas the mighty jalapeno can
reach levels 8000 points now that is
spicy the owner put a lot of himself
into it after fleeing Vietnam on a
freighter named Wei Fong eventually
David Tran and his family arrived in the
u.s. first in Boston and then they moved
on to California to conquer the chili
sauce world not only is the company
named after the ship that saved him as
as the sauces named after a town in
Thailand si Racha sriracha that's not
helping the bottle is also designed on
trans first venture into hot sauce
during the Vietnam War in which he drew
a rooster on his jars once in the u.s.
Tran commissioned a street artist from
Chinatown to come up with a design that
was different from other food companies
but also had ties to the roots of the
sauce trees Ostrom mylord school vodka
kids get some liquor with the popularity
that sriracha sauce has had over the
last couple of decades it was inevitable
that the hot chili flavor would find its
way into other products as well as the
famous rooster sauce you can now get
that sriracha flavor in a variety of
foods as well as condiments such as
mustard and mayo you can also get
popcorn chips peanuts pretzels and even
jerky with that spicy sriracha taste now
sriracha has expanded into the alcohol
market with sriracha infused vodka even
though the bottle is a striking red just
like the sauce the liquid is actually
clear like all good vodka should be the
smell of fresh peppers and that sweet
and spicy Tang mixed into a vodka is
proving a big hit and we can see why
this sriracha vodka seems a perfect base
to make the most amazing Bloody Marys
will drink to that
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