The Sriracha Factory (Post #1)

       A  few weeks ago I visited the Sriracha Factory in Irwindale, CA. While there I learned so much more about the culture and creation of the very popular, Sriracha Sauce. Some of you may know I love spicy foods, Sriracha is one of my favorite hot sauces. You can put it on almost anything! Owner and worker at the Sriracha factory, David Tran  takes pride in his hot sauce and even goes to the factory every day to work along with every other team Sriracha member. Tran believes in even quality in the taste of each hot sauce bottle they sell, that is why the factory only harvests chilies from one farm in the on- season. The on-season is the period of time in the winter where chillies are harvested and if you live in so-cal you should totally go check out their chili harvesting festival. In the factory they keep barrels and barrels of chillies to use in their sauces. These barrels are taken to be mixed with garlic and vinegar. Although this recipe is simple the resulting sauce is so powerful it makes almost everything taste better!

The many barrels of chillies!

The  bottles after they are manufactured and heated from a test tube size to a regular bottle!

Me and David Tran!