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By now, everyone knows that Sriracha goes well on everything, but beneath its spicy surface, the ketchup-killing condiment atop our hot sauce power-ranking list holds a wealth of secrets. We've compiled a list of 12 must-know facts to consume before the cock crows all over your eggs/burger/pizza/michelada. 1. You're pronouncing it wrongSee-rotch-ah. 2. Sriracha is the type of sauce; Huy Fong is the brand nameAccept no substitutes, even if they're emblazoned with dragons. 3. It's actually significantly less hot than a jalapeñoAccording to the benchmark of all things spicy, the Scoville scale, Sriracha scores 2,200 points. The red jalapeño peppers used in the sauce lose nearly half of their spiciness in processing, which puts the sauce on par with Fresno and Anaheim peppers -- both of which are about as hot as their namesake cities. 4. They're not just cockyThe rooster is the Chinese zodiac sign of the sauce's founder. 5. Some dumbass drank 3lbs of the stuffSpoiler alert: this video ends in a bathroom. 6. The brand name comes from the ship that carried Huy Fong's founder to the USThe founder, who was of Chinese descent, made the original version of Sriracha in Gerber baby food jars before immigrating to the US aboard the Huy Fong and restarting the business. 7. You can cook really good food with itBon Appetit came up with 25 delicious recipes, including Sriracha fried chicken. And there's also a cookbook dedicated entirely to the condiment. 8. They produce over a ton of it every hourThe assembly line cranks out 3,000 bottles an hour, 24 hours a day, six days a week. That's roughly 200 tons per week. They sell about 20 million bottles a year. 9. It totally got Lay'dThe rooster took an honorable mention in a Lay's flavor design contest. Pringles and Kettle chips have also rolled out their own Sriracha flavors, and you can grab a Sriracha Quesarito from Taco Bell. 10. There is a documentaryNo thanks to you. But luckily, 1,315 other people shelled out the money for a film via Kickstarter. 11. A hot sauce by any other name would smell as sweetThe name comes from the small coastal Thailand town Si Racha, population 19,221. 12. It is ranked the No. 1 hot sauce in the entire universeBy an extremely credible source. Sign up here for our daily Thrillist email, and get your fix of the best in food/drink/fun. Dan Gentile is a staff writer at Thrillist. He owns an unopened bottle of Sriracha specifically for photo purposes. Follow him to red jalapeño everything at @Dannosphere. Is sriracha hotter than Tabasco?One difference between Tabasco and sriracha is level of spiciness. Sriracha is a little less spicy than Tabasco, which may be why it has become so popular. What's interesting is that the tabasco pepper itself is way hotter than the red jalapeno which is found in sriracha.
Is sriracha hotter than jalapenos?As you might have guessed, the Scoville scale is the ideal instrument to settle the sriracha vs Jalapeno debate. Let's take a look. In other words, jalapenos are hotter than sriracha as a general rule. Although it's worth noting that there can be some overlap between the less spicy jalapenos and the hottest sriracha.
How spicy is 8000 Scoville units?Update! "Pepper X", bred by Ed Currie the creator of the famous Carolina Reaper chilli, is claimed to measure in at 3.18 million scoville units!
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The Scoville Heat Scale.. How spicy is sriracha?Sriracha gets its heat from red jalapeños peppers. Surprisingly, the sauce is only moderately spicy. On the Scoville scale, developed to measure the level of heat in chiles, sriracha measures 2,200. By contrast, Tabasco sauce clocks in at 3,750 and cayenne pepper at a startling 50,000!
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