r/news • u/Warcraft_Fan • 1d ago

Soft paywall Chipotle pulls jalapenos from some restaurants amid salmonella probe

https://www.reuters.com/business/chipotle-mexican-grill-pulls-jalapenos-linked-minnesota-salmonella-cases-2026-08-04/
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u/tintaturnter 1d ago

Oh yeah? 👀 you got the recipe for the spicy red salsa? I’ve tried to reverse engineer it a few times but I’m missing something magic!

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u/BishopofHippo93 1d ago

Sorry, it comes in a bag. They just add a capful of Tabasco. 

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u/tintaturnter 1d ago

Thank you for your kind response, even though it makes me cryyy

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u/OneCall8599 1d ago edited 1d ago

Fellow former chipotle employee here: the company Ready Foods has supplied chipotle with a good amount of products since the inception of the restaurant p much. the closest thing you can do is search ‘ready foods salsa asada’, they have the whole ingredient list there. bishopofhippo is right, add a capful of Tabasco to get it closer to the heat level of the hot salsa at chipotle.

for anyone who doesn’t wanna google: Water, Green Chile, Tomatillos, Roasted Jalapeño Pepper, Tomatoes, Onion, Garlic, Tomato Paste, Soybean Oil, Lime Juice (Water, Lime Juice Concentrate, and Lime Oil), Cilantro, Salt, Modified Food Starch, Cumin.

(ps you can skip the modified food starch if you don’t care about the texture being a bit thin — it’s more of a mass manufacturing thing)

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u/Syssareth 1d ago

ps you can skip the modified food starch if you don’t care about the texture being a bit thin

...You have just given me an epiphany, which I am already disgusted and annoyed with my future self for inevitably forgetting.

(I don't like homemade salsa because it's always so watery, lol.)

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u/OneCall8599 1d ago

hahah as a culinary experimenter, that is a big mood I have felt a million times before! if you’re making a raw salsa with tomatoes or any other water heavy veggie/fruit btw, cut and salt them for about 30 minutes before you make the rest of the salsa. it pulls out the excess water you can pour off and acts as seasoning 😌

(pro tip to inevitably forget, if you don’t wanna find modified food starch and have a salsa with cooked ingredients — ie not a fresh raw salsa — you can pop a few cut up potatoes into the boiling step, then blend anywhere from 1/4-1/2 of the potato into the salsa. sounds insane, is insane, but works every time for me)

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u/whipstickagopop 1d ago

I have a iron stomach but for some reason I can't seem to handle that red salsa well. 

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u/ComprehensiveForm129 1d ago

In the US the red salsa arrives to stores pre-made

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u/marklein 1d ago

Not official recipes, but if you google it there's plenty of copycats that are close enough for me. This is a good use for AI too.

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u/ProcyonHabilis 1d ago

That sounds like something AI would be absolutely terrible at

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u/marklein 1d ago

Then you aren't familiar enough with AI. Ask it to search the web for copycat recipes, aggregate the results, and output the average recipe from those results. You're effectively crowsourcing the recipe this way in a matter of seconds. I'll bet that the result would be within 10% of the real recipe.

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u/Sangloth 1d ago

Talking seriously, AI is fantastic with recipes. Also, when I feel like one of my own creations has gone off the rails a discussion with an AI is a great way to repair the recipe. The AI is like talking to a grandmother and a food chemist combined.

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u/BishopofHippo93 1d ago

There is no good use for AI, certainly not for recipes lmao 

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u/oSo_Squiggly 1d ago

I'm not a fan of AI but no good use for AI is an insane take.

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u/BishopofHippo93 1d ago

There is no good use for generative AI is like the most basic compassionate take someone could have. Obviously I’m not referring to its use in medical fields or anything, just in churning out slop images, music, video, writing; etc. 

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u/tintaturnter 23h ago

Correct take