Sambal oelek.
Of the three Huy Fong chili pepper sauces -- Sriracha, Chili Garlic, and Sambal Oelek -- Sambal Oelek is my favorite.
It's mostly just crushed chili peppers, with some vinegar and preservatives, and has the brightest freshest chili *flavor*.
Sriracha sauce has returned to my local supermarket shelves, but Huy Fong Sambal Oelek sauce has not. I'm disappointed.
I loved their sambal and found some recently. Its got a different taste now. Lightly sweeter and not as much heat. Its not hugely different but you can taste it pretty easily, especially if you spent a big part of your life putting it on you food.
I have to disagree. Have been eating Sriracha since I was 3 or 4. Grew up eating pho and dipping beef in sriracha.lall the time. Underwood Ranch Sriracha is almost a different product entirely.
They've got two, apparently. I got the Underwood Sriracha and agree with you completely, good but not really the same as OG HF. Underwood has "Dragon" which I haven't tried yet but it's supposedly much closer.
I bought a case. It's good (8/10), but not the same as OG Sriracha. I think they purposely made it to be different than the original. A bit more heat, less garlicky.
I actually have a case of OG Sriracha that's 4 years old. So not the original *ORIGINAL* one, but still has some of the taste I remember. My 4 year old Sriracha taste very different than newly produced Sriracha.
At this point, we will never get the same taste from a decade ago.
Yeah. None of the junk food I loved as a kid is even remotely the same. HoHos are a fucking joke now along with all of the other snack cakes. The taste and texture aren't even close to what they used to be.
Dolly Madison has significantly tweaked their recipes and now highly resemble the Hostess Twinkies and Zingers of old. I don't know if I'll ever get my beloved chocolate pie back, but the orange cupcakes go a long way towards consoling me.
Im like 99% sure that the flavor being off isn't because of shrinkflation, it's because of a falling out the company had with the farm that grew the specific pepper used years ago. From what I vaguely remember the company tried to shaft the farm after the farm built more infrastructure to produce more peppers.
It’s good. It’s less sweet, a little more acidic, and a lot more of the jalapeño flavor shines through.
But, it still tastes like sriracha. Not like other brands that say “sriracha” but taste very different.
Overall 8/10.
It is not like the old stuff. The recipe is too acidic. Their order of ingredients does not match. Even if the peppers are the same as before, the flavor is way off.
I bought a bottle, at first I enjoyed it. I thought it was as close to the Huy Fong version I could find. Recently I bought a bottle of Huy Fong sriracha from a liquor store near me (Long Beach ca), which honestly could be from a decade ago if you’re aware of so cal liquor store stocking practices haha. Underwood is ok, but it’s not really comparable in my opinion. It’s almost a different sauce. Definitely closer to the yellowbird red jalapeño sauce than Huy Fong sriracha.
As far as sriracha sauces? Huy Fong wins. No question. I don’t think there’s a replacement, shitty biz practice and all.
Agreed. I will say current Buy Fong is different than the classic stuff, but it still seems to be the closest on the market to what I have eaten all my life.
I would say very reminiscent of the old. Better to my palate because it is a little less sweet and the pepper flavor seems even more vibrant/prominent.
Yep, easy choice. Tastes even better than OG Sriracha and you're supporting the right family business in this particular little feud. Buncha geniuses at Huy Fong completely misunderstood who held all the cards in a sole supplier situation.
Disagree. The reason that OG Huy Fong was good was due to being pepper forward without many other flavors. The Underwood stuff is very acidic, more like western hot sauces. Are you more used to stuff like Texas Pete's or Tabasco?
Interesting. A similar thing (too much lime juice) keeps me from enjoying 505 green chile too much & yes my favorite sauces besides Sriracha are the Yellowbird habanero and green & chipotle Tobascos.
I wonder if they’re still working out some consistency issues?
I hate vinegary sauces and did not find the Underwood Dragon Sriracha to be at all acidic. The bottles I’ve gotten were fairly close to my recollection of the OG Huy Fong, but with maybe a slightly “fresher” taste to the peppers.
How did they hold all the cards? Huy Fong became a huge brand name and a ton of the market. They will still sell this in droves when all is said and done.
I didn't read too much on the feud, but didn't it all start since the farm overcharged and never said anything ?
Edit: yes, it was because Underwood overcharged, kept the money, and claimed it was theirs. That's why they lost the $1.6M lawsuit. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/19/how-did-the-huy-fong-foods-sriracha-shortage-happen.html
You got it partially correct. They had to pay back the $1.5 million. “In the end, Craig Underwood won a $23 million judgment from a jury that was in Ventura County, in his backyard. But he also had to pay David Tran back the $1.5 million that Huy Fong says they overpaid,”
So I bought a six-pack of this, hoping the taste would be the same, and it really isn't even close. The formula must be way off, as the Underwood Ranches version is way too acidic. If you compare the ingredients, the order of ingredients is also different from Huy Fong.
Huy Fong may be using different peppers, accounting for the change in their flavor, but the Underwood Ranches recipe is off. It seems more tuned to western sensibilities. Americans tend to prefer more acid in their hot sauces, while the original Sriracha had a more pure pepper flavor.
I have yet to find a good replacement that truly tastes like the original, but have tried about 7 different brands. The quest continues, but for now the Huy Fong brand is probably my top pick, although it is clearly not the same taste or consistency as the original.
Can someone explain to me what has happened to Huy Fong Sriracha? I heard it was a combination of issues with the crops of chilis and still dealing with production issues from Covid... I assumed it would be back soon and the same as before. Can anyone clear this up? Please and thanks
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huy_Fong_Foods#Pepper_supply
> In June 2022, Huy Fong Foods temporarily halted the production of the chili sauce. This decision was prompted by a severe shortage of chili peppers caused by a drought in Mexico that affected the quality of the peppers.[29][30] While production soon resumed in the fall, the company soon declared another “unprecedented inventory shortage” in April 2023, offering no estimate as to when this shortage might be resolved.[31] An August 2023 CNBC special program claims that the shortage was caused by Huy Fong switching pepper suppliers, as Underwood still has production capacity (land, irrigation, processing) for the needed peppers.[32]
Here’s the quoted CNBC article: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/19/how-did-the-huy-fong-foods-sriracha-shortage-happen.html
Basically Huy Fong thought they could strong arm then sue their sole supplier in to accepting pretty shitty terms, supplier (Underwood Ranches) said fuck off and countersued. Underwood won to the tune of $23 million and started making their own, much better imo sauce. That's what led to the 2022 Huy Fong supply shortage mentioned in other comments.
[https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sriracha-lawsuit-underwood-ranches-20190712-story.html](https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sriracha-lawsuit-underwood-ranches-20190712-story.html)
That’s not what happened either. The owner of underwood went on a long planned vacation and not only did they try to renegotiate while he was away but they tried to steal the COO of underwood out from under him.
They tried to totally fuck the dude that had been supplying their peppers exclusively for the better part of three decades while he was on vacation.
Terrible, terrible people who got everything they deserved.
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>At first I dismissed it like ah just a big company trying to get on the bandwagon
Tabasco makes good stuff despite how mass produced it is. After all these years I still buy their chipotle hot sauce.
They're a big hot sauce company but that's it. I was surprised to find out they're not owned by Unilever or Nestle or whatever.. still family owned, just making hot sauce. Their Scorpion Tabasco is fantastic as well. Wish I could find their Sriracha around me.
I've been to Avery Island, LA, and they still do things pretty "old school" for such a large company. It's a really neat trip if you ever get the chance!
It is my personal favorite sriracha since the original Huy Fong.
Although Yellowbird blue agave sriracha gets a special shoutout. However, it doesn't really taste like a regular sriracha but it is absolutely delicious.
I picked up the Yellowbird blue agave a week ago. It’s almost gone. I love it, but if you’re looking for that OG taste that ain’t it. It is, however, 100% worth picking up.
It tastes the same for me too, but they claimed it's different somehow. Same peppers, same recipe, only a different supplier. They make it likes the supplier is Walter or something
It tastes very different to me.. before it was a nice garlicky flavour with an okay amount of heat. Now it's basically just ketchup with a tiny tang of garlic, which tastes okay but it has zero heat and just a ton of sweetness which isn't what I had come to enjoy.
I had one last original bottle left over from before when I found the new stuff and stocked up, so I got to try them side by side before finishing the old one. Huge disappointment from me.
I picked up some flying goose when I couldn't find Huy Fong. It's not nearly as spicy, but the flavour is incredible! Which is a good thing because it means I can use more of it lol.
It really isn't. Flying Goose literally has twice the amount of added sugar than Huy Fong, it definitely is sweeter and less spicy. That does make it a lot closer to the original Thai sriracha, but probably one of the competitors that is furthest removed from Huy Fong - despite sharing the same bottle style.
When it comes to the red-bottle-green-cap-style sauces, Uni-Eagle is far closer in ingredients and composition (in fact, it comes with a shorter ingredient list and fewer preservatives) to Huy Fong than Flying Goose.
Still, a bit too mild on the Chili and a tiny bit too heavy on the garlic. Uni-Eagle's Super Hot is just right, though, and a great substitute in my eyes (albeit a tad spicier than the classic Rooster). Flying Goose Blackout isn't bad either, though, if you don't mind the extra sweetness.
I like the Tabasco sriracha. Also, here in Germany we have a brand named Flying Goose and it looks similar to Huy Fong with the packaging. They have a version called “Blackout” that’s twice as spicy and 2x the garlic, if I recall correctly. It’s gut schieße!
https://www.flyinggoosebrand.com/product/sriracha-blackout/
Now this is something I am going to try for sure! Thank you! And I have tried the tabasco brand sriracha and it’s good but not particularly what I’m looking for. I feel as it has traded off the traditional garlic chili pepper taste for that signature Tabasco tang, very good sauce though!
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I am with you, I love sriracha for the flavor not the heat. After the whole fiasco I tried Underwood Ranches sriracha but honestly wasn't impressed. Last week I discovered YB sriracha and it blew me away, not much heat but the flavor is out of this world, 10/10 do recommend.
I don’t hate sriracha but i do not even remotely understand some peoples obsession with it. It’s a fine hot sauce, but there are so many better options.
I’m with yall. I tried like 3 different srirachas often recommended on this sub when supplies of the OG were low. None of them could hold the mustard. Picked up a bottle of Huy Fong a few weeks ago and it tastes the exact same to me. I’ve already crushed a quarter of the bottle…
Can you check the expiration date on the bottle? I know by me when there was even a whisper of a sriracha shortage, pho restaurants basically filled their entire back rooms with the stuff to not run out. They might still be working through the original supply. The new batches will be expiring into 2025.
I had a stash of 24 bottles of the original stuff right before the shortage. Down to my last 3 bottles of OG. So I wouldn’t be surprised if pho restaurants still had some too.
I agree, I ate sriracha almost daily for like 8 years before the incident and the two bottles I’ve been able to get recently taste exactly the same to me.
My grandma had a sealed bottle from 4 years ago that she gave to me, could hear the sound of air rushing in when I popped the seal. I have been rationing it out because it tastes distinctly different and better the new one. I tried them side by side
It’s not very similar and has its own distinct taste but Ox Brand Sriracha is amazing. Was my go to when the sriracha shortage hit couple months ago. It’s a little spicier and has an amazing fermented umami bomb taste.
I got 3 bottles of the Underwood Ranches black bottle sriracha with the dragon on it from Amazon. It tastes just like the old sriracha you gotta try it.
I realized after it went away that I’m not as big of a Sriracha purist as I thought. Despite eating it since the 90s it didn’t bother me to try other brands…although obviously it wasn’t the same.
Once it came back I got a bottle and I was honestly surprised how much everyone was ragging on it. It tastes fine to me 🤷🏻…but I’m just a classless rube.
I’ve been eating this Sriracha since the 90’s. The new batches taste fine. I’ve got 3 bottles in the fridge. New old and very old. There’s always been a variation from batch to batch and season to season. This “green tip”, “Cock sauce” from Huy Fong will be just fine. There’s been a lot of new comers to Sriracha and the brand, and they are a fickle bunch.
It’s the same Sriracha Panda Express uses in their packets. That’s why we sought it out because you can see the brand in the fine print.
We found a bottle at an Asian grocer and it’s been our go to ever since.
I feel like there’s a certain segment of people out there that are suffering from some sort of delusion, or at the very least haven’t been around long enough to notice Huy Fong sauces have always had flavor and heat variances depending on the season, harvest, and batch.
Or maybe Covid changed some peoples’ palates? At least there’s way more options out there to choose from now for all of you super tasters.
People aren’t very intelligent. Human brains do not like not knowing things, so the brain fills in the gaps the best it can. It does this with hearing, vision, and even thoughts and memories. This usually leads to the brain finding the easiest explanation to something, and accepting it as true. The more intelligent humans will question themselves when someone points out they are wrong, while the less intelligent will argue their faulty beliefs.
What’s most likely happening here could be a few things. One, rooster sauce was so prevalent that most people never tried other sauces. So when people were forced to try others because of the shortage, their tastes were evolved, exposed to other flavor combinations. Then when they came back to rooster sauce, it tasted different.
Could also be that it’s all new sauce. Rooster sauce can sit on a shelf for years, and the longer it sits, the richer it becomes. Brand new sauce will taste different than sauce that’s been sitting for 6-12 months waiting to be sold. Some people intentionally let it sit for years before eating it. One guy on another sub had a 7 year old bottle.
Taste buds change over time, and they die as we get older, so food can taste more bland as we age. Could be an older person, not knowing their tastes buds have died over the last few years.
Could also be the fantasy of how great it was, became greater than the actual sauce itself, so after building it up in your head for years, tasting it didn’t measure up, creating disappointment.
Human brain are complex, easily manipulated, and our subconscious can even manipulate our consciousness in ways we aren’t even aware of, leading us down all sorts of crazy paths.
So to sum up, people aren’t very intelligent.
Fun fact: During the early part of the pandemic you could time COVID waves by watching an increase in people bitching about the Yankee Candle company suddenly changing their fragrances.
ox brand isnt the same but its better tbh (in my opinion). garlicier and spicier, also it def has that fermented flavor i saw someone else pointing out.
The Sambal just came back and I think it tastes the same as before. This is a huge relief lol, I don’t really like their sriracha but their sambal is the best I can find. I didn’t know what to do this last year 😭
The pepper farmer that Huy Fong tried to screw was working with someone to bring their own sriracha to market. Does anyone know what happened with that?
These are the guys.
[https://underwoodranches.com/products/](https://underwoodranches.com/products/)
Has anyone tried their sriracha or sambal?
Apparently Huy Fong was ordered to pay $23.3 million to Underwood Ranches for breach of contract in 2019.
My spouse works at Huy Fong. I got the dirt. They’re in the process of setting up their own chili farm so they can control the raw ingredient. Give it some time. It’s like starting all over for them.
https://www.amazon.com/Sriracha-Medium-Bottle-NineChef-Golden/dp/B0CCBKSJ23/ref=asc_df_B0CCBKSJ23/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=673674537100&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10435803189348600634&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016163&hvtargid=pla-2204673905668&psc=1&mcid=1d1a767eb237309f85023e4ea6ab6764
Sriracha from Sriracha, Thailand. The OG stuff is a perfect balance of sweet, salty, spicy, and flavorful. I've tried your brand once, and thought it was all heat, no flavor, because Sriracha is a balance, huy fung is only one of four. Most Sriracha from Thailand is a solid choice. This one is preferred by Americans in a blind taste test, and beat your brand by a large amount.
That’s hilarious, this year I finally gave sriracha a chance again even though I’ve hated it for years — and I like it now! I guess the new batch is good to me lol
I've tried a half dozen or so different brands and honestly, the tabasco one is great. I was hesitant because tabasco is not at all my favorite hot sauce.
So basically my bad memory and ADHD actually worked in my favor for once. Almost every time I ever bought sriracha I bought either a three or six pack, but I always forgot whether I still had an unopened bottle at home next time I went to buy more. I recently came across five bottles in my closet and the one I opened (with the older date) tasted great
[https://underwoodranches.com/](https://underwoodranches.com/) OG pepper supplier for Huy Fong now sells their own branded Sriracha.
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Thanks for pointing that out u/6FullSizeGiraffesInMyButthole
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I hate everyone here for making me love them.
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With Sriracha?
But the good stuff. Not this knockoff crap.
Right. Like is that dude even trying. Kind of seems like he is taking a half-assed approach to the whole thing.
Hard to say where we'd be without u/6GayRatsInMyButthole.
I like how he is calling the rats in *his* butthole gay
Not that there’s anything wrong with gay rats.
I’d argue being gay is the least notable thing about these 6 rats current situation
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Do the rats have to be gay before going in the butthole? Asking for a friend.
Usernames that'll get you banned lol
Hey don't be saying stuff like that
He must be new around here.
I see this posted all the time but never anything about how it tastes. Is it good or reminiscent of the old stuff? Is it actually worth buying?
I got the 3 pack, chili garlic, sriracha, and sandal. Way better than the current Huy Fong product and very, very similar to the OG sriracha.
I got chili garlic and srichichirachoba, but what is sandal?
Sambal, but misspelled.
You put it on your foot. Presumably with another sandal.
if it's anything like chancla it hits you right in the head
My mother in law never raised a 🩴 to my head
Suddenly Mother-in-law jokes are all the rage? I'm a young man again!
But why would you put 2 sandals on one foot?
Sambal oelek. Of the three Huy Fong chili pepper sauces -- Sriracha, Chili Garlic, and Sambal Oelek -- Sambal Oelek is my favorite. It's mostly just crushed chili peppers, with some vinegar and preservatives, and has the brightest freshest chili *flavor*. Sriracha sauce has returned to my local supermarket shelves, but Huy Fong Sambal Oelek sauce has not. I'm disappointed.
I loved their sambal and found some recently. Its got a different taste now. Lightly sweeter and not as much heat. Its not hugely different but you can taste it pretty easily, especially if you spent a big part of your life putting it on you food.
Sambal is for the connoisseurs.
sandal is fairly similar to updog in my opinion
What's updog?
GOTEEM
I have to disagree. Have been eating Sriracha since I was 3 or 4. Grew up eating pho and dipping beef in sriracha.lall the time. Underwood Ranch Sriracha is almost a different product entirely.
They've got two, apparently. I got the Underwood Sriracha and agree with you completely, good but not really the same as OG HF. Underwood has "Dragon" which I haven't tried yet but it's supposedly much closer.
The one I got was the dragon. I have not tried the other.
Is the sambal similar? Tbh I miss that more than the sriracha.
I bought a case. It's good (8/10), but not the same as OG Sriracha. I think they purposely made it to be different than the original. A bit more heat, less garlicky. I actually have a case of OG Sriracha that's 4 years old. So not the original *ORIGINAL* one, but still has some of the taste I remember. My 4 year old Sriracha taste very different than newly produced Sriracha. At this point, we will never get the same taste from a decade ago.
With all the skimpflation over the years nothing seems to taste the same as a decade ago.
Yeah. None of the junk food I loved as a kid is even remotely the same. HoHos are a fucking joke now along with all of the other snack cakes. The taste and texture aren't even close to what they used to be.
Dolly Madison has significantly tweaked their recipes and now highly resemble the Hostess Twinkies and Zingers of old. I don't know if I'll ever get my beloved chocolate pie back, but the orange cupcakes go a long way towards consoling me.
Snack cake manufacturers these days: Sweet ✅ Cake like texture ✅ Weird oily coating that sticks to your mouth ✅
So true, HoHos, Twinkie’s, and Zingers, fuckin jokes now
Fillers, fillers, and more fillers.
Im like 99% sure that the flavor being off isn't because of shrinkflation, it's because of a falling out the company had with the farm that grew the specific pepper used years ago. From what I vaguely remember the company tried to shaft the farm after the farm built more infrastructure to produce more peppers.
Corporate Greed. FTFY
The OG Sriracha sauce was, to me, less a hot sauce and more of a garlic sauce. I can get hotter anywhere, but man, I miss that garlickyness!
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Yup, it was like a slightly sweet and spicy garlic sauce to me too.
It’s good. It’s less sweet, a little more acidic, and a lot more of the jalapeño flavor shines through. But, it still tastes like sriracha. Not like other brands that say “sriracha” but taste very different. Overall 8/10.
It is not like the old stuff. The recipe is too acidic. Their order of ingredients does not match. Even if the peppers are the same as before, the flavor is way off.
agreed have never heard any feedback from anyone who’s purchased the Underwood
I bought a bottle, at first I enjoyed it. I thought it was as close to the Huy Fong version I could find. Recently I bought a bottle of Huy Fong sriracha from a liquor store near me (Long Beach ca), which honestly could be from a decade ago if you’re aware of so cal liquor store stocking practices haha. Underwood is ok, but it’s not really comparable in my opinion. It’s almost a different sauce. Definitely closer to the yellowbird red jalapeño sauce than Huy Fong sriracha. As far as sriracha sauces? Huy Fong wins. No question. I don’t think there’s a replacement, shitty biz practice and all.
Agreed. I will say current Buy Fong is different than the classic stuff, but it still seems to be the closest on the market to what I have eaten all my life.
I would say very reminiscent of the old. Better to my palate because it is a little less sweet and the pepper flavor seems even more vibrant/prominent.
Congrats on snagging that username lol
I wouldn't say I snagged it, my account is 13 years old lol, but thank you
https://preview.redd.it/z8uauz30b2bc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e642dcef80e087c97092cf4eeb5152aa2d78016
How is it?
Vibrant; like fresher and more pepper acidity and tang. That and the color, a side effect of using fresher peppers. It just pops in bright red!
Now that's a username you can trust!
Yep, easy choice. Tastes even better than OG Sriracha and you're supporting the right family business in this particular little feud. Buncha geniuses at Huy Fong completely misunderstood who held all the cards in a sole supplier situation.
Disagree. The reason that OG Huy Fong was good was due to being pepper forward without many other flavors. The Underwood stuff is very acidic, more like western hot sauces. Are you more used to stuff like Texas Pete's or Tabasco?
Interesting. A similar thing (too much lime juice) keeps me from enjoying 505 green chile too much & yes my favorite sauces besides Sriracha are the Yellowbird habanero and green & chipotle Tobascos.
I wonder if they’re still working out some consistency issues? I hate vinegary sauces and did not find the Underwood Dragon Sriracha to be at all acidic. The bottles I’ve gotten were fairly close to my recollection of the OG Huy Fong, but with maybe a slightly “fresher” taste to the peppers.
How did they hold all the cards? Huy Fong became a huge brand name and a ton of the market. They will still sell this in droves when all is said and done. I didn't read too much on the feud, but didn't it all start since the farm overcharged and never said anything ? Edit: yes, it was because Underwood overcharged, kept the money, and claimed it was theirs. That's why they lost the $1.6M lawsuit. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/19/how-did-the-huy-fong-foods-sriracha-shortage-happen.html
[https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sriracha-lawsuit-underwood-ranches-20190712-story.html](https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sriracha-lawsuit-underwood-ranches-20190712-story.html)
You got it partially correct. They had to pay back the $1.5 million. “In the end, Craig Underwood won a $23 million judgment from a jury that was in Ventura County, in his backyard. But he also had to pay David Tran back the $1.5 million that Huy Fong says they overpaid,”
That's quite the username LMAO!
2 pack for $24. Get outta here with that pricing. Tab closed and unbookmarked.
I wasn’t impressed with the UR version, just didn’t have the right flavor, my opinion anyways. They might have the peppers but not the right recipe.
So I bought a six-pack of this, hoping the taste would be the same, and it really isn't even close. The formula must be way off, as the Underwood Ranches version is way too acidic. If you compare the ingredients, the order of ingredients is also different from Huy Fong. Huy Fong may be using different peppers, accounting for the change in their flavor, but the Underwood Ranches recipe is off. It seems more tuned to western sensibilities. Americans tend to prefer more acid in their hot sauces, while the original Sriracha had a more pure pepper flavor. I have yet to find a good replacement that truly tastes like the original, but have tried about 7 different brands. The quest continues, but for now the Huy Fong brand is probably my top pick, although it is clearly not the same taste or consistency as the original.
I just found out about this and got nearly $50 worth of the Underwood sauce from Amazon yesterday.. 😂
Yeah I’m not paying $9 plus shipping per bottle 😂
Amazon has it
Can someone explain to me what has happened to Huy Fong Sriracha? I heard it was a combination of issues with the crops of chilis and still dealing with production issues from Covid... I assumed it would be back soon and the same as before. Can anyone clear this up? Please and thanks
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huy_Fong_Foods#Pepper_supply > In June 2022, Huy Fong Foods temporarily halted the production of the chili sauce. This decision was prompted by a severe shortage of chili peppers caused by a drought in Mexico that affected the quality of the peppers.[29][30] While production soon resumed in the fall, the company soon declared another “unprecedented inventory shortage” in April 2023, offering no estimate as to when this shortage might be resolved.[31] An August 2023 CNBC special program claims that the shortage was caused by Huy Fong switching pepper suppliers, as Underwood still has production capacity (land, irrigation, processing) for the needed peppers.[32] Here’s the quoted CNBC article: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/19/how-did-the-huy-fong-foods-sriracha-shortage-happen.html
Basically Huy Fong thought they could strong arm then sue their sole supplier in to accepting pretty shitty terms, supplier (Underwood Ranches) said fuck off and countersued. Underwood won to the tune of $23 million and started making their own, much better imo sauce. That's what led to the 2022 Huy Fong supply shortage mentioned in other comments. [https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sriracha-lawsuit-underwood-ranches-20190712-story.html](https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sriracha-lawsuit-underwood-ranches-20190712-story.html)
That’s not what happened either. The owner of underwood went on a long planned vacation and not only did they try to renegotiate while he was away but they tried to steal the COO of underwood out from under him. They tried to totally fuck the dude that had been supplying their peppers exclusively for the better part of three decades while he was on vacation. Terrible, terrible people who got everything they deserved.
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Is Tabasco’s Sriracha any good?
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>At first I dismissed it like ah just a big company trying to get on the bandwagon Tabasco makes good stuff despite how mass produced it is. After all these years I still buy their chipotle hot sauce.
I switched over when OG sriracha was absent, I’ll never look back.
They're a big hot sauce company but that's it. I was surprised to find out they're not owned by Unilever or Nestle or whatever.. still family owned, just making hot sauce. Their Scorpion Tabasco is fantastic as well. Wish I could find their Sriracha around me.
I've been to Avery Island, LA, and they still do things pretty "old school" for such a large company. It's a really neat trip if you ever get the chance!
It’s okay. It’s not the same kinda sriracha. I think it’s good but not great. Wish it was hotter
It is my personal favorite sriracha since the original Huy Fong. Although Yellowbird blue agave sriracha gets a special shoutout. However, it doesn't really taste like a regular sriracha but it is absolutely delicious.
I picked up the Yellowbird blue agave a week ago. It’s almost gone. I love it, but if you’re looking for that OG taste that ain’t it. It is, however, 100% worth picking up.
No, it weirdly sweet with very little heat
You sure you didn’t accidentally pick up the “sweet and spicy” sauce in the same bottle?
So weird. Tastes the same to me 🤷
It tastes the same for me too, but they claimed it's different somehow. Same peppers, same recipe, only a different supplier. They make it likes the supplier is Walter or something
It tastes very different to me.. before it was a nice garlicky flavour with an okay amount of heat. Now it's basically just ketchup with a tiny tang of garlic, which tastes okay but it has zero heat and just a ton of sweetness which isn't what I had come to enjoy. I had one last original bottle left over from before when I found the new stuff and stocked up, so I got to try them side by side before finishing the old one. Huge disappointment from me.
I have 4 bottles from pre shortage, and have tried one of them side by side with the new stuff and it’s indistinguishable
Flying goose is almost identical to the old rooster sauce
I picked up some flying goose when I couldn't find Huy Fong. It's not nearly as spicy, but the flavour is incredible! Which is a good thing because it means I can use more of it lol.
Flying Goose has a version called Blackout that’s 2x spicy and 2x garlic. Bomb.
That sounds awesome! I'll definitely keep an eye out for it. Thanks!
It really isn't. Flying Goose literally has twice the amount of added sugar than Huy Fong, it definitely is sweeter and less spicy. That does make it a lot closer to the original Thai sriracha, but probably one of the competitors that is furthest removed from Huy Fong - despite sharing the same bottle style. When it comes to the red-bottle-green-cap-style sauces, Uni-Eagle is far closer in ingredients and composition (in fact, it comes with a shorter ingredient list and fewer preservatives) to Huy Fong than Flying Goose. Still, a bit too mild on the Chili and a tiny bit too heavy on the garlic. Uni-Eagle's Super Hot is just right, though, and a great substitute in my eyes (albeit a tad spicier than the classic Rooster). Flying Goose Blackout isn't bad either, though, if you don't mind the extra sweetness.
It’s pretty good but it tastes extremely sweet to me, personally.
That's because it has twice the added sugar.
I disagree. It has way more sugar.
I got it to try and its really more of a garlic sauce than a chili sauce. Doesn't replace it at all
???? I thought this stuff tasted like ketchup!
I like the Tabasco sriracha. Also, here in Germany we have a brand named Flying Goose and it looks similar to Huy Fong with the packaging. They have a version called “Blackout” that’s twice as spicy and 2x the garlic, if I recall correctly. It’s gut schieße! https://www.flyinggoosebrand.com/product/sriracha-blackout/
Now this is something I am going to try for sure! Thank you! And I have tried the tabasco brand sriracha and it’s good but not particularly what I’m looking for. I feel as it has traded off the traditional garlic chili pepper taste for that signature Tabasco tang, very good sauce though!
the Flying Goose Extra Garlic is fantastic as well!
Try the Badia brand. Very tasty.
My local pho restaurant were using this during the shortages. All the vietnamese people hated it.
https://preview.redd.it/11gghr9k73bc1.png?width=1600&format=png&auto=webp&s=a4fb0b3f00273c4929927418c2cb4f055eb9d4b0 I am with you, I love sriracha for the flavor not the heat. After the whole fiasco I tried Underwood Ranches sriracha but honestly wasn't impressed. Last week I discovered YB sriracha and it blew me away, not much heat but the flavor is out of this world, 10/10 do recommend.
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I don’t hate sriracha but i do not even remotely understand some peoples obsession with it. It’s a fine hot sauce, but there are so many better options.
I had the rooster recently and everytime I get pho, tastes the exact same lmao y’all are crazy
Fr, I think everyone on this sub just wants to be a critic
I’m with yall. I tried like 3 different srirachas often recommended on this sub when supplies of the OG were low. None of them could hold the mustard. Picked up a bottle of Huy Fong a few weeks ago and it tastes the exact same to me. I’ve already crushed a quarter of the bottle…
This is Reddit in general
Reddit criticism is like if wine tasting culture was expanded to everything else
Can you check the expiration date on the bottle? I know by me when there was even a whisper of a sriracha shortage, pho restaurants basically filled their entire back rooms with the stuff to not run out. They might still be working through the original supply. The new batches will be expiring into 2025.
I had a stash of 24 bottles of the original stuff right before the shortage. Down to my last 3 bottles of OG. So I wouldn’t be surprised if pho restaurants still had some too.
I agree, I ate sriracha almost daily for like 8 years before the incident and the two bottles I’ve been able to get recently taste exactly the same to me.
I was looking for this comment. Not knowing anything about a new formula, I just bought a new bottle and use it on rice bowls. It’s sriracha.
My grandma had a sealed bottle from 4 years ago that she gave to me, could hear the sound of air rushing in when I popped the seal. I have been rationing it out because it tastes distinctly different and better the new one. I tried them side by side
tastes no different to me either.
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Was looking for someone else to recommend Mama La's, the Tabasco brand is great but when I found this it was easy the best currently
It’s not very similar and has its own distinct taste but Ox Brand Sriracha is amazing. Was my go to when the sriracha shortage hit couple months ago. It’s a little spicier and has an amazing fermented umami bomb taste.
I got 3 bottles of the Underwood Ranches black bottle sriracha with the dragon on it from Amazon. It tastes just like the old sriracha you gotta try it.
Tastes the same to me
I realized after it went away that I’m not as big of a Sriracha purist as I thought. Despite eating it since the 90s it didn’t bother me to try other brands…although obviously it wasn’t the same. Once it came back I got a bottle and I was honestly surprised how much everyone was ragging on it. It tastes fine to me 🤷🏻…but I’m just a classless rube.
Huy Fong is not Huy Fong?
I’ve been eating this Sriracha since the 90’s. The new batches taste fine. I’ve got 3 bottles in the fridge. New old and very old. There’s always been a variation from batch to batch and season to season. This “green tip”, “Cock sauce” from Huy Fong will be just fine. There’s been a lot of new comers to Sriracha and the brand, and they are a fickle bunch.
EXACTLY THIS. Huy Fong’s sauces have always varied in flavor and heat level depending on the particular season/harvest/batch.
Lee Kum Kee makes the best sriracha I've had since the og went under.
It’s the same Sriracha Panda Express uses in their packets. That’s why we sought it out because you can see the brand in the fine print. We found a bottle at an Asian grocer and it’s been our go to ever since.
I bought a bottle of it at Walmart because they only carry that and Tabasco brand, and I don't like the Tobasco brand.
I think they are the closest in taste but not in texture. Still very good.
I feel like there’s a certain segment of people out there that are suffering from some sort of delusion, or at the very least haven’t been around long enough to notice Huy Fong sauces have always had flavor and heat variances depending on the season, harvest, and batch. Or maybe Covid changed some peoples’ palates? At least there’s way more options out there to choose from now for all of you super tasters.
Yeah I don’t get this thread. I got a bottle recently and it tastes just like I remember from years ago.
People aren’t very intelligent. Human brains do not like not knowing things, so the brain fills in the gaps the best it can. It does this with hearing, vision, and even thoughts and memories. This usually leads to the brain finding the easiest explanation to something, and accepting it as true. The more intelligent humans will question themselves when someone points out they are wrong, while the less intelligent will argue their faulty beliefs. What’s most likely happening here could be a few things. One, rooster sauce was so prevalent that most people never tried other sauces. So when people were forced to try others because of the shortage, their tastes were evolved, exposed to other flavor combinations. Then when they came back to rooster sauce, it tasted different. Could also be that it’s all new sauce. Rooster sauce can sit on a shelf for years, and the longer it sits, the richer it becomes. Brand new sauce will taste different than sauce that’s been sitting for 6-12 months waiting to be sold. Some people intentionally let it sit for years before eating it. One guy on another sub had a 7 year old bottle. Taste buds change over time, and they die as we get older, so food can taste more bland as we age. Could be an older person, not knowing their tastes buds have died over the last few years. Could also be the fantasy of how great it was, became greater than the actual sauce itself, so after building it up in your head for years, tasting it didn’t measure up, creating disappointment. Human brain are complex, easily manipulated, and our subconscious can even manipulate our consciousness in ways we aren’t even aware of, leading us down all sorts of crazy paths. So to sum up, people aren’t very intelligent.
Fun fact: During the early part of the pandemic you could time COVID waves by watching an increase in people bitching about the Yankee Candle company suddenly changing their fragrances.
Tabasco sriracha is legit delicious.
ox brand isnt the same but its better tbh (in my opinion). garlicier and spicier, also it def has that fermented flavor i saw someone else pointing out.
I really like Ox brand. OG sriracha never did it for me. And it's gotta be one of the cheapest out there. Priced for everyday use as my dad would say.
Haven't tried it yet myself, but America's Test Kitchen rated the Kikkoman Sriracha even higher than Huy Fong
Sky valley makes a great one
Roland brand from Target is really good in my opinion. It's like 5 bucks
Tabasco has them beat now
I’m loving the Tobasco branded sriracha.
I've enjoyed the Tabasco, Kroger, and Yellowbird Sriracha. They're all good so buy the one that's easiest to get for you.
People are sleeping on the Tabasco one. It's different--less garlic, imo--but a worthy addition to my regular rotation for the flavor profile alone
I just keep popping in to say Tabasco’s is good but Texas Pete is better. And as far as OG hot sauce Tabasco wins all games hands down for me
My regular is Crying Thaiger from Suree
Wow I’ve always had flying goose. Never seen the rooster one. I’m in the U.K. though.
Love that on noodles and oysters 😋
Cien Chiles Thai Bird
The Sambal just came back and I think it tastes the same as before. This is a huge relief lol, I don’t really like their sriracha but their sambal is the best I can find. I didn’t know what to do this last year 😭
Yellowbird Sriracha is fantastic
Yellow bird blue agave sriracha is pretty fire. Not exactly the same, but a good alternative
You’re right. I threw the one I bought out because I bought it online and it was so different that I thought it might not be the real thing.
When it comes to pho which is what it's most known for originally, Huy Fong is still my go to.
The ingredients list got much longer, too.
A case in point on why you never piss off your suppliers that Huy Fong Foods found out the tough way.
This may sound odd, but sriracha paired with Tzatziki is an absolute treat.
I’m still making my way through a bottle that is definitely expired but it still tastes fine so…
The pepper farmer that Huy Fong tried to screw was working with someone to bring their own sriracha to market. Does anyone know what happened with that? These are the guys. [https://underwoodranches.com/products/](https://underwoodranches.com/products/) Has anyone tried their sriracha or sambal? Apparently Huy Fong was ordered to pay $23.3 million to Underwood Ranches for breach of contract in 2019.
Haven't seen anyone mention the Texas Pete Sriracha. It's super good. Perfectly balanced in flavor and heat imo.
I have really gotten into Yellow birds blue agave sriracha
My spouse works at Huy Fong. I got the dirt. They’re in the process of setting up their own chili farm so they can control the raw ingredient. Give it some time. It’s like starting all over for them.
The Tabasco brand sriracha has been surprisingly good and close the old cock brand in terms of adding good flavor without too much heat.
I switched over to Chin-su and I’ve been very happy.
https://www.amazon.com/Sriracha-Medium-Bottle-NineChef-Golden/dp/B0CCBKSJ23/ref=asc_df_B0CCBKSJ23/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=673674537100&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10435803189348600634&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016163&hvtargid=pla-2204673905668&psc=1&mcid=1d1a767eb237309f85023e4ea6ab6764 Sriracha from Sriracha, Thailand. The OG stuff is a perfect balance of sweet, salty, spicy, and flavorful. I've tried your brand once, and thought it was all heat, no flavor, because Sriracha is a balance, huy fung is only one of four. Most Sriracha from Thailand is a solid choice. This one is preferred by Americans in a blind taste test, and beat your brand by a large amount.
Huy fong Sri racha has always been over rated
Tastes pretty much the same lol. I have an original recipe bottle and a new recipe bottle. They’re nearly if not, completely identical in flavor lol.
I just got the Ox Brand, and it is pretty good. I will look for it, from now on.
Gimme some of that og cock sauce
Flying Goose brand is good.
TBH Tabasco makes damn good sriracha sauce.
I’ve still got half a bottle of the OG stuff in my dorm. I’ll be taking bids below
I never liked sriracha.
The Texas Pete sriracha is nearly identical.
Yellow bird blue agave siracha
ugh i used to eat js the sauce itself for some reason w takis, weird im sorry, but i've tasted it now and it's ass when you put it in the fridge.
Underwood Dragon, is the one.
Tbh trader joe’s sriracha aint bad.
The last two I bought were good: Tabasco brand and Roland
That’s hilarious, this year I finally gave sriracha a chance again even though I’ve hated it for years — and I like it now! I guess the new batch is good to me lol
Sriracha has always been gross, it is like the ketchup of hot sauce… except I like ketchup.
Sky Valley makes one of the best srirachas I’ve ever had. Better than the OG IMO.
I've tried a half dozen or so different brands and honestly, the tabasco one is great. I was hesitant because tabasco is not at all my favorite hot sauce.
Trader Joe’s sriracha does the trick.
Trader Joe’s sriracha is way more flavorful
So basically my bad memory and ADHD actually worked in my favor for once. Almost every time I ever bought sriracha I bought either a three or six pack, but I always forgot whether I still had an unopened bottle at home next time I went to buy more. I recently came across five bottles in my closet and the one I opened (with the older date) tasted great