By Dan Gentile, Thrillist
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 14 must-know facts to consume before the cock crows all over your eggs/burger/pizza/michelada.
Sriracha costume. Photo from Thrillist.
1. You’re pronouncing it wrong.. SIR-rotch-ah. As in, yes, sir, please smother whatever the hell I’m eating in this stuff.
2. Sriracha is the type of sauce; Huy Fong is the brand name. Accept no substitutes, even if they’re emblazoned with dragons.
3. It’s actually significantly less hot than a jalapeno. According to the benchmark of all things spicy, the Scoville scale, Sriracha scores 2200 points. The red jalapeno peppers used in the sauce lose nearly half of their spiciness in processing, which puts the sauce on par with the Fresno and Anaheim peppers — both of which are about as hot as their namesake cities.
Read the full list by Dan Gentile from Thrillist.
