Is Chicken Salt Australia's MSG?

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• eureka@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  MSG isn’t “some other crap”, just like table salt isn’t some other crap. They’re base ingredients, not seasoning mixes. In fact, they’re already in a lot of grown foods.

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• shirro@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I suspect this shit originates with social media influencers representing companies selling flavoured salt. Many countries have seasoned salt since long before us. We mostly only put it on chips and people are split on whether they like it or not. I would prefer gravy and cheese or better still put the chips in an AB/HSP. I think it is hugely overrated. In actual cooking and other snacks we still have MSG and other sources of umami like fish sauce, soy, bouillon etc.

  Nobody is putting chicken salt on their sushi, kebab or banh mi or the hundreds of other takeaway foods we eat that aren’t chips.

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  • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, i certainly have chicken salt on all kinds of potato cooked foods, roast veges, cheesies. And yesterday the meal that spurred the post was some pizza type things i’d put it on.

    Nobody is putting chicken salt on their sushi, kebab or banh mi or the hundreds of other takeaway foods

    Fair comp i cant imagine it’d work

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• Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As far as I know, MSG is generally cooked into food whereas chicken salt is a seasoning you add on top at the end. The single exception I’m aware of is sometimes MSG is added as a side to certain Korean dishes (you dip whatever you’re eating in the MSG). In general I don’t think it’s something you would eat in the same way you eat chicken salt, though. MSG doesn’t have the same use, it’s more about feel than taste which is why it’s usually mixed in with other things as opposed to being the main seasoning. It enhances other flavours whereas chicken salt is the main flavour.

  Personally this is why I never have chicken salt if I’m eating chips with fish, because it is too strong and dominates the fish flavour. I would say the way vinegar is used in the UK, particularly on similar foods like fish and chips, is a more accurate comparison (I wouldn’t have this combination either for a similar reason).

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  • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, i suppose i was mainly thinking of some fried chicken with MSG to dip that was just awesome as the comparison, but you’re right its mainly used in cooking, whereas chicken salt is on top.

    because it is too strong and dominates the fish flavour

    Hadn’t clocked this. Don’t eat fish often, but when i do i’ll make sure to remember this, i instantly imagined that overpowering sensation of the chicken salt as you describe.

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    • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I had one really bad experience when I was a kid where we got fish and chips from a new place because our usual was unexpectedly closed. They put chicken salt on everything and it became like this running joke in our family about the worst fish and chips ever because it didn’t even qualify as fish - it tasted like chicken lol

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• NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Look up ingredients of them. You’ll see flavour enhancer 621 (msg), 627, or 631. Those others are basically msg in terms of what they do to taste perception, similar chemically.

  chicken salt is salt, msg, and herbs.

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  • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hooli dooli i’ve been eating msg without knowing it forever! No wonder i’ve a persistant headache /j

    But seriously, you just blew my mind a little :o

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not to MSG, more like a premix taco seasoning

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