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Later, the mixture gets a dose of garlic and sugar. Below, the sauce cooks while churning.

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And they use it on almost everything! Simply amazing, wow!

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Most importantly, Tran wants to keep the price low for his "chile friends."

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Still, Huy Fong Foods has no trouble selling the special sauce. "The past 30 years, the economics sometimes go up and down. For me, I feel nothing. Every day, every month, the volume increases," Tran said.

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Surprisingly, the company doesn't advertise any of their products. Fans, however, often pick up the slack, featuring this dancing chicken.

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Aside from the 17oz and 28oz bottles, the company also plans to sell 9oz and gallon-sized containers too.

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Like clockwork, out comes a steady line of that Sriracha goodness!

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On the other side, comes out the capped bottles that are then tightened.

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Here, more machines automate the process of reeling in the filled bottles for capping.

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Factory machines also take care of the the final touch, those signature green caps.

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Huy Fong Foods' new facility, however, is 2.5 times the size and yields about 180,000 daily on one line!

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Next, packaging begins. The old factory not shown could produce about 70,000 bottles daily.

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In 1980, Vietnamese refugee David Tran founded Huy Fong Foods in Rosemead, California.

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After that, industrial, blue barrels store the chile-mash.

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Kind of looks like ground beef, doesn't it?

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Then they enter a grinder.

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First, a windmill-like device washes the chiles, removing any dirt or chemicals.

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They look like red quicksand funneling into factory machines.

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Once the chiles leave the trucks, processing starts.

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After sorting, a conveyer belt hoists the peppers onto trucks. The farm sends about 30 semis to Huy Fong Foods daily.

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...that would take up a field about the size of lower Manhattan, south of Houston Street!

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Equipment does some of the work though. Owner, Craig Underwood, says the farm will grow 48,000 tons of peppers this year...

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Just one company, Underwood Ranches in Camarillo, California, grows the chiles used to make Sriracha. And Huy Fong Foods only buys from them. Above, workers dump hand-picked chiles into crates for processing.

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He named the Company after the ship that brought him to America.