who's making the best Sriracha right now?

I like flying goose brand. IIRC it’s actually made in the sriracha region in Thailand , and it’s the brand huy fong copied the bottle design from. Many supermarkets sell it here.

Others have mentioned it already, but I wanted to chime in and say that I've been really liking the Tabasco Sriracha sauce. It's different from "real" Sriracha, more garlicky for one thing (a positive in my book). I don't consider it a replacement, but since it's impossible to find the original where I'm at, I consider it the next best thing.

My boyfriend makes the best Sriracha I've ever tasted! If anyone’s interested, I can try to snag his recipe and share it here

I didn't even know I was dating anyone!!!

Seriously, if he'll let you share it I'd love to give it a whirl.
Heck yeah hook us up
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Dm me the recipe if you get the chance plesse. love any type of hot sauce.

or just post it here for myself and others to copy to a notepad whatever works best for you

Apparently the original supplier for Huy Fong (Underwood Farms) makes their own version now, and it's how Huy Fong used to taste.

Underwood Ranches?

https://underwoodranches.com/
last I checked it was three times the price, and most people online were saying it was fine but still not up to par with the original. do you personally rate it highly? I haven't tried it
- Costco sometimes has a 2 pack for around $10. Probably worth it.
  
  My vote is sky valley. Both their red and green sirachi are amazingly. Really bright and solidly hot while still wellbeing balanced. Also at Costco, but it may be regional.
- Oh damn, I haven't tried it because I have so much hot sauce that I'm on a no buy. I still have a bottle of the Huy Fong new stuff my mom bought without realizing it wasn't as good, but I was planning to try the Underwood one as soon as I run out.
If any of my nearby supermarkets carried it I'd definitely give this one a go. Not sure that I want to commit to buying multiple bottles online.

Me. Lacto-fermented hot sauces aren't that difficult to make and can be adjusted widely to personal preference.

Yeah it is easy, my basic recipe:

Bunch of peppers (Madame Jeanette), a lof of garlic and an onion, 8 grams of salt per liter of water, sterile jar and once a day I turn the lid carefully to let the CO₂ out. I like it to ferment for a week mostly, sometimes 5 days. It’ll keep fermenting after bottling anyway because I don’t pasteurize.

My wife is a big fan of omelet with this hot sauce.
Lactate me some of that tasty fermented hot sauce!
- Now that is a fetish I don't need to see the rule 34 content on. But the small bit I'll allow myself to imagine, Sean Evans, host of Hot Ones, is involved still in a host capacity.
I'll take 6
- I usually keep it to 3. One variant for eggs, one for tacos, one wildly experimental.
  
  Current experimental batch has kiwifruit in it and while interesting, I won't be doing that again.
  
  I never finished the batch that I put some banana in, you want that one?
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- If you can handle a YouTube content creator bringing the young millennial/Z energy, Joshua Weissman is what I use for base recipe and then experiment from there.
  
  https://youtu.be/uL8UJPQ_zoU?si=NvfMg7ftMjZB7985
  
  Total time is a few weeks. Actual work time is an hour, maybe an hour and a half.
  
  I forget if this YT video covers it, but I also add a quarter tsp of xantham gum to keep the finished sauce from separating.
  
  Blender. Sieves or cheesecloth. Jar. Bottle for fermenting. Some equipment needed but nothing a lot of kitchens don't already have. One can get more equipment that makes it easier, but it's not required.

Lee Kum Kee is what I've found that is a) available, and b) close to indistinguishable from Huy Fong as far as I can tell.

Been happy with that one as well. Use it mostly in my fried rice and eggs, sometimes potatoes.
Add my support too. Didn't know how well known this brand was.

Yellow Bird

Maybe not the Tabasco Sriracha if you're looking for that Sriracha flavor. It's not bad at all but it basically tastes like Sriracha flavored Tabasco sauce. That could be a good thing, there are a ton of Tabasco sauce devotees out there, just don't expect it to taste like a proper Sriracha sauce.

A lot of these alternative Sriracha brands seem to have a ton of extra ingredients vs the original which puts me off from buying them.

yeah half of them are spicy mayonnaise, which on top of not being what I was looking for, have a shorter shelf life. I have adhd, I can't handle that
- I'm fine with people eating mayo. I hate it it, but it's not my mouth so I don't care. I'm not ok with people labeling their mayonnaise trash a hot sauce. It's not ok.
Tabasco makes really good stuff. as a kid I always felt like the standard Tabasco had too much of a vinegar:heat ratio then I discovered their habanero sauce. it's the perfect thing for just increasing heat without adding flavors apart from peppers
- Yup agree with you there, Tabasco sauces are great. Not sure that I'd call their Sriracha an actual alternative vs the original Sriracha sauce but aside from that there's nothing wrong with their version.
  
  I do like that they didn't add a ton of extra ingredients to their version, simple ingredient list = better IMO.
I grabbed this one after the hoy fong fuck up. It makes a really good spicy mayo. Tastes good on teriyaki dishes.

Sky Valley makes a pretty solid one.

We really like Sky Valley too.

I don't know, but the last one I bought sucks. Way too sweet.