Or are they just trying to sound tough. Because to me Sriracha is spicy to the point where I can only put a few drops on my food or it's too spicy to eat. To be fair my spice tolerance is really low. I think Jalapenos are hot. But when I ask some friends they say it's not spicy. So the to the people who don't think it's spicy…does it not register as burning in your mouth at all? I just find it hard to believe. Maybe I'm just much more sensitive to spice than a lot of people.
by MostlyGlamorous2334
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Not spicy.
Depends on the context, but yeah it is more on the sweet/spicy spectrum.
For spicy? Go to Dave’s Gourmet
I’d describe it more as sweet than spicy TBH.
If I ate like 1/2 a bottle maybe it’ll have some tingle, but it’s 1/10 heat on my scale.
I will literally squirt that into my mouth by itself as a sweet treat when I don’t want to make something. It’s sweet and tasty, and after 30 seconds of switching my mouth I’m tingly all over
It’s not spicy. If you think it’s spicy you just don’t have a spice tolerance which is fine
That’s because you have no tolerance. People develop a tolerance to capsaicin just like any other substance.
Yea……but everything is relative. I remember as a kid when I first tried it and it was REALLY hot for me. It took me into this world really. It’s a good sauce to start with to build tolerance.
It’s subjective
It’s not about sounding tough.
It’s just that when people eat a lot of spicy stuff, their tolerance for the heat grows.
I can’t feel the heat in Sriracha at all anymore, but i could about 10 years ago.
Google says it is like 1-5k on Scoville. So it’s not *that* spicy, but of course it *is* spicy. It registers, but barely burns. I am not even that crazy about heat like the people who just straight eat ghost peppers. I’ll eat half a ghost or a whole scorpion in a dish, but not plain.
Edited to directly address the real question in the description. “So the to the people who don’t think it’s spicy…does it not register as burning in your mouth at all?”
Within your own post you acknowledge that spiciness is subjective? It’s also fairly easy to build up a tolerance and Sriracha is certainly one of the less spicy things out there. I hate ppl who always say “oh you’re just pretending to be tough” like no my tolerance is just different than yours wtf
It’s not “not spicy”, but it’s a pleasant sweet chili sauce. It doesn’t really burn or anything, but it’s noticably there.
its pretty mild when it comes to hotter hot sauces its like 1/20th of the spice level of of the super hots and the sauces made from them.
Does it have some heat? sure a bit but i could drink a bottle of the stuff and be fine lol.
PPl have a wide range of tolerances to spicy stuff, ive always been sensitive to other types of pain but i love super hot sauce.
You just have absolutely no spice tolerance whatsoever
Sriracha is about 2.5k on the scoville scale. For those that have worked their spice tolerance up to where they’re eating everything with habaneros (100k+ SHU) or hot sauces that use even hotter peppers, sriracha just doesn’t move the needle anymore. I can absolutely smother my food in sriracha, and it won’t really add any noticeable heat. At this point, it’s similar to black pepper.
I have a bottle from 2 years ago that has a significant kick. A new bottle tastes like garlic paste. They definitely cut the heat out in a major way.
theres for sure a legitimate reason people are saying this, and its simply bc they are used to hotter sauces / peppers.
whether or not people are trying to sound tough really doesnt seem like a major factor to me.
I don’t find it spicy at all. Not even the extra spicy one.
It’s got some zing but nothing that’s “spicy”. If you can find places that sell packets or little bottles try that first
Man I WISH it was spicy. But after sprinkling ghost pepper on my meals, sriracha feels like it has no heat whatsoever .
I do lol but your in the r/spicy subreddit so skewed polling? Nothing below a pablano Is really spicy to me and hababeros are my idea of average spice. Your obviously at the beginning of your spicy journey. If sirracha is spicy to you that is fine
Not spicy but has a good chili flavor. My spouse said it best where it’s more of a condiment like ketchup rather than hot sauce. Asian ketchup still has its purpose but not spicy
I find Sriracha is more garlicky than spicy. But everyone has their own tolerance and preferences when it comes to spicy things.
It’s about as spicy as ketchup imo. I use it to buffer hot sauces and take the edge off 😜
Remember the kids at the bus stop that would wear shorts in the middle of 15 degree weather in January and then insist to everyone else that “it’s not even cold out!”?
That’s this sub in a nut shell.
Yeah, everybody’s different. To me, sriracha is moderately spicy. I’m not a huge spice guy – more like a medium-ish.
you openly admit to having a low spice tolerance, but then ask if people are pretending to be tough? nah, sriracha just isn’t spicy my guy. jalapeno’s mostly aren’t even that spicy either.
i’ve never thought it was spicy tbh
yes, i do not find sriracha spicy.
It IS spicy, but not very to most people
No one here is going to admit it, but there are definitely people who think their spice tolerance is something to brag about. Fact is, Sriracha is spicy. It might not taste very spicy to someone with a high tolerance, but that doesn’t mean it’s not spicy. But people will still say it’s not. I’ve also noticed that sriracha in particular seems to vary. Sometimes a bottle will be pretty mild and other times definitely less so.
Thai here. Not even close to the word ‘spicy’.
i think theres inconsistancy in both flavor and spiciness. weren’t there brown sirachas going around a year ago?
It’s a person to person thing.
I’m not a guy who eats reapers and ghost peppers and tries to show off how much spice I can handle. I learned my lesson back in the early 90s. I like cayenne for example. I will usually sprinkle it on spaghetti. I feel and taste the heat but I enjoy it. If never put that in my family’s food because they don’t like spice and have no tolerance for it
I discovered Sriracha in the early 90s, they’d have it at Chinese buffets, I put it on my wings…that or the hot oil. That I enjoyed. So one time when I first met my wife we were at a festival, they had wings and Sriracha and I squirted some on my wings. I told her to try it, it’s not THAT hot. Thinking hot is hot. It’s got a kick and flavor but I genuinely thought it’s just normal spicy food spicy, manageable, flavorful, not pain inducing. She tried it and didn’t speak to me for two days. She has no tolerance.
So I got my karma when a couple months later we were at a home show and there was a hot sauce booth. I got all macho and said let me sample the hottest thing you have which at the time was Dave’s Insanity. I turned purple, started sweating and got in the line for cheesecake samples 8 times. Took me 45 minutes before I thought I wasn’t going to die
But I know people who think Dave’s is weak. Back then habaneros were the spiciest, but now we have ghost peppers, reapers and scorpion peppers that make habaneros look like jalapenos. And people live it. Distillates….7 figures or more on the scoville scale. To anyone who likes that, Sriracha is ketchup. To anyone who thinks general tsos chicken is hot, it’s probably like eating fire.
Over the years I’ve gone down….living with a family that can’t tolerate spice I’ve gone down at Buffalo Wild Wings from Blazing to Wild to Hot and I may switch to Medium. Thai places Id ask for top Thai spice, now I do a 4. 1 can be too hot for my wife
So it depends. If you think it’s spicy, it’s spicy. If someone tells you they don’t, they don’t.
I could literally use it as a personal lubricant. It has zero heat.
Depends on the person to me it’s like if paprika was a sauce but we all have our own limits
Yea people arent joking when they say that. My spice tolerance has gotten so high that anything below a thai chili is “mild”. Its actually quite unfortunate once you get to this point because I absolutely love spice, and the only way for me to achieve that now is using hotter peppers which are harder to find and more expensive.
You’re asking a sub full of spice enthusiasts.
This would be like going into a running sub and asking if they really mean it when they say a 5k isn’t that long of a distance. For the average person who doesn’t run, getting up and doing a 5k is no easy task.
For the average person who eats super spicy food often, siracha is not spicy.
When I buy it, it’s sweet because of the high sugar content. But when I make it at home, I use acidity and it balances a much better spice level increasing the heat
Definetly anything but spicy. First ingredient aint oeppers its vinegar
I can probably drink that stuff. It used to be amazing, now it’s ok.
I used to find it spicy until I developed a tolerance. It’s just barely spicy to me now.
It’s a pure heat tolerance that you build up.
Sriracha is a very tasty sauce, but for me it’s my ketchup substitute. My wife, on the other hand, has no tolerance. She can’t tolerate anything spicier than milk or grapes 🤣
I always thought it was a condiment, like ketchup or mustard. The first few times I heard it called a hot sauce I thought they were joking