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Sriracha Buffalo Sauce

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sriracha and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 131 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 1 1/2 cups

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By epicurious. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sriracha + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together131 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Butter + winetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Wine + vinegartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Butter + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13,453 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Sriracha + winetop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs