USA's beloved "Rooster Sauce" had a musty, unpleasant odor, and unbalanced, spicy ketchup flavor very heavy on garlic. But it's hot, so there's that.

The Rooster brand, ubiquitous in the U.S., is now being exported to Thailand, where Sriracha was born. But many Thais who taste the U.S. version are not impressed. "I wanted to gag," says one.

And even in a worse-case scenario -- stockpiling, rising prices, the rationing of so-called rooster sauce -- there’s always this option: a D.I.Y. Sriracha sauce that uses just five ingredients ...

Average Spiciness: 7/10 Average Sweetness: 4/10 Superlatives: Best Balance of Flavors, Most Liquidy, Spiciest. Ninja Squirrel Sriracha Hot Sauce ($3.99 for 16.0 oz. at Whole Foods ). I’m glad ...

It is technically spicier, though. Traditional sriracha’s Scoville levels — a scientific measurement for spiciness — range between 1,000 to 2,500 Scoville. Traditional Thai chiles range from 50,000 to ...

California-based Huy Fong Foods’ rooster sauce,” known as such because of the logo, is the most ubiquitous Sriracha chili sauce brand. Producing about 20 million bottles a year, it’s reached ...

Now Dragon Sauce – seeded by those same peppers – is carried by some Costco warehouses and is a top-selling Sriracha sauce on Amazon. “We were the ones who supplied those peppers for 28 years.

The Rooster brand, ubiquitous in the U.S., is now being exported to Thailand, where Sriracha was born. But many Thais who taste the U.S. version are not impressed. "I wanted to gag," says one.