Huy Fong Sriracha Hot Sauce Packets, 50 Count

Fifty single-serve packets of Huy Fong sriracha, about 7 grams each, or roughly a teaspoon and a half, which is one bowl or one sandwich worth of heat. They are made under license from Huy Fong Foods, so what is inside the foil is the sauce from the green-capped rooster bottle rather than a lookalike.

Huy Fong's version is the one most Americans mean when they say sriracha, and it is not quite the Thai style it was modeled on: thicker, more garlic forward, and hot enough to notice without flattening what it lands on. A packet gives you that in a form that survives a bag, a glove box or a carry-on tray table.

Useful for desk lunches, lunchboxes, campsites and any takeout counter that has hot sauce ambitions but no bottle. Squeeze it into pho and ramen broth, over fried rice and noodles, onto eggs, tacos, pizza and burgers, or stir a packet into mayonnaise for a quick sandwich spread.