"But I got a solution!"
Best sauce ever...Sriracha.
I still have a bottle left of the four that I bought during the last sriracha shortage. Maybe I’ll buy another bottle or two, even though I don’t use it every day.
I don’t think they can blame the weather.
The Farm That Grew Chiles For Everyone’s Favorite Sriracha Brand Now Makes Their Own. But Is It Any Good?
Eight years after Underwood Ranch had a legal falling out with Huy Fong Foods, the jalapeño farm is now making their own sriracha sauce. We broke down the taste, ingredients, and look of the bottle compared to the San Gabriel Valley classic.
https://lataco.com/underwood-farms-sriracha
Don’t jump!
Screw Huy Fong Sriracha. Their pepper shortage issue is self made as they sued (and lost after a couple years in court) their sole supplier from California. Because of that they had to source from New Mexico and Mexico which supposedly had shortages because of Climate change don’t you know.
The California supplier now had hundreds of acres of Jalapenos and no Huy Fong to buy them. Problem solved they started their own brand and it is very good. Underwood Ranches Sriracha . More expensive than Huy Fong which I’m fine with out of principle as Huy Fong got real nasty with their California supplier. I’m not seeing a shortage of the Rooster sauce as Amazon has all kinds available as well as Wally World as of a week ago. Fan boys of Huy Fong claim it is not as good nor looks the same with the new suppliers of Peppers.
Not good news. We’re gonna need it as a sauce for the crickets.
"But I got a solution!"
Um... Sriracha is available in all of our local stores for under $5 for the big bottle. Btw: The Tabasco version isn’t bad and it’s slightly hotter.
Later I ended up with a large pepper garden and love experimenting making my own sauces now.
It's already spicy and has a good kick to it. If you make it more spicy, it'll take away from the flavor.
Call me when there’s a shortage of Chinese chile oil. Then I will be concerned.
CC
Sambal Oelek is so much better than Sriracha. The founder has a great story, though. Couldn’t find any Sambal during the ‘Rona so I made my own. Deee-liciious.
H->! deeply affected....
There is an article from a month or two ago detailing exactly what happened and how it happened, basically it was a Self Inflicted wound that resulted in the shortages and inconsistencies in the peppers which caused the flavor to be different in different batches... there was a lot of info
I like spicey... with flavor. Sriracha doesn’t do it for me... I ate hot early as an expat in SE asia, maybe my tastebuds are conditioned differently.
But I have a question... wasn’t the original sriracha recipe stolen from the originator who was NEVER compensated?