23
Brown Sriracha? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by sudo42@lemmy.world to c/cooking@lemmy.world
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Has Huy Fong Sriracha changed color?

Saw a bunch of bottles at the store today, but instead of their usual brick-red color, the sauce was almost brown. I checked the expiration dates on a few bottles -- the date was June of 2026 (or there abouts, don't remember the exact date), so they weren't expired. Anyone know if these Sriracha bottles are unusual, or is Sriracha brown now?

all 10 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

My understanding is that there is always color variation because they don't color their sauces with food coloring, and as a result, the sauces made at the beginning of harvest season will have a different color than the sauces made at the end of harvest season.

But also they no longer use the same chili due to greed, so that may not apply anymore

[-] sudo42@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

they don’t color their sauces with food coloring

Ah. Good to know. That might explain it. I've just never seen this shade in Sriracha before.

[-] Head@lemmings.world 22 points 6 months ago

I do know that they had problems with their pepper suppliers due to corporate greed. Perhaps they're using a different pepper now.

[-] Blackout@kbin.run 9 points 6 months ago

I stopped buying it when they tried selling bottles for $10 during the shortage. Switched completely to lao gan ma and have no regrats.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Regratulations!

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

It varies. It also turns brown naturally if exposed to air for too long, though, so hopefully it's not that. My dad would leave it in the cupboard still open and it turned brown in no time--- but in a store, they better not be opened!

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Huy Fong has had production issues for a while now that may have impacted the color, but not the flavor or the quality.

https://6amcity.com/culture/sriracha-shortage-2024

https://www.foodandwine.com/huy-fong-sriracha-sauce-shortage-2024-8645753

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sriracha-sauce-shortage-pepper-drought/

I've been told the Kikkoman Sriracha is a good substitute, but I haven't personally tried it. I just wanted an excuse to drop the Kikkoman video:

https://youtu.be/Wz-mJed_bP0

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I bought some about three weeks back and it was its regular color.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

Huy Fong has halted production for the summer because the peppers were not ripe enough. Some of the bottles will be more brown because the red/green of the pepper. It's not a bad product, they just had underripe product this season. If you love Sriracha, buy it now because last year (2023) they said they were suspending until the fall and it ended up being 9 months, not 3.

this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
23 points (96.0% liked)

Cooking

6566 readers
5 users here now

Lemmy

Welcome to LW Cooking, a community for discussing all things related to food and cooking! We want this to be a place for members to feel safe to discuss and share everything they love about the culinary arts. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow!

Taken a nice photo of your creation? We highly encourage sharing with our friends over at !foodporn@lemmy.world.

Posts in this community must be food/cooking related and must have one of the "tags" below in the title.

We would like the use and number of tags to grow organically. For now, feel free to use a tag that isn't listed if you think it makes sense to do so. We are encouraging using tags to help organize and make browsing easier. As time goes on and users get used to tagging, we may be more strict but for now please use your best judgement. We will ask you to add a tag if you forget and we reserve the right to remove posts that aren't tagged after a time.

TAGS:

FORMAT:

[QUESTION] What are your favorite spices to use in soups?

Other Cooking Communities:

!bbq@lemmy.world - Lemmy.world's home for BBQ.

!foodporn@lemmy.world - Showcasing your best culinary creations.

!sousvide@lemmy.world - All things sous vide precision cooking.

!koreanfood@lemmy.world - Celebrating Korean cuisine!

While posting and commenting in this community, you must abide by the Lemmy.World Terms of Service: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

  1. Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
  2. Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
  3. Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
  4. Shitposts and memes are allowed until they prove to be a problem.

Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your post/comment being removed and/or more severe actions. All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. We ask that the users report any comment or post that violates the rules, and to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world
DimFisher@lemmy.world