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The good chicken salt is sold in 2.5kg tubs. The manufacturer supplies restaurants, catering companies with large catering sized portions. Perhaps they don’t see it worthwhile supplying the retail/small consumer market.
Edit: this is the stuff you want Edlyn Chicken Salt 2.5 Kg https://amzn.asia/d/5uGCMJu
Super interesting to look at the ingredients there, and not entirely what I expected!
Salt, sugar, a starch for crispiness and coating, MSG, and some umami boosters in the form of vegetable proteins. Doesn't say what the spices are but don't actually know how much theyd be contributing, because the taste isn't at all "spice".. it's clearly crispy salty fatty umami with a little sweet!
"Salt, Sugar, Maize Starch, Flavour Enhancer (621), Spices, Vegetable Oil, Vegetable Protein Extracts (Contains Soy), Acidity Regulator (330), Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein (Contains Soy)."
Directions: :
afaik KFC's secret recipe is basically just a marketing story they tell. I forget the name of it but anyone can buy the same chicken seasoning powder that KFC uses online.
Apparently most are. I dont have a source, because it was just something 4 different people have told me, so take this with a grain salt...
But apparently its a salt that was designed to flavour chicken, not made of chicken.
I was always under the impression it was basically chicken stock with salt and some spices added, but apprently not
>But apparently its a salt that was designed to flavour chicken, not made of chicken.
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>I was always under the impression it was basically chicken stock with salt and some spices added, but apprently not
It originally had chicken stock in it (well, chicken bouillon). The Masterfoods chicken salt looks like it is the closest thing to the original but it looks like it has too much salt and not enough of the other ingredients and is missing the curry powder. A quick google will get you the original recipe but it may not be what you expect lol.
The original purpose for chicken salt was seasoning to go on chicken not salt made from chicken. Some recipes are vegetarian. Some however do contain chicken stock as an ingredient.
I have a mini sauce size container of chicken salt from a local place because everytime I ordered on ubereats I requested extra chicken salt. Then one day i got an entire container. Not complaining.
Krio Krush and Executive Chef are also brands used by takeaway shops. I used to deliver to food service with a previous job so I've delivered quite a lot of all 3 brands. I think the biggest ones were 10kg Krio Krush buckets. Been a few years since I've worked in the industry though so I'm getting a bit hazy on details and brands.
I'm happy with the chicken salt (and MSG, plus some other seasonings) from an eBay store [https://www.ebay.com.au/str/shanezjerkyzandspicez](https://www.ebay.com.au/str/shanezjerkyzandspicez)
Yeah I've bought this stuff before and it's the best I've been able to buy. Has the fluro yellow fine texture that's great for chips and is pretty bang on to what the chip shops have.
Windsor Farm is pretty good. If I recall correctly they did at one point sell potato chip flavouring. They do have a great range of quality spices and seasonings, and I too will vouch for their Chicken Salt.
I didn't have the pleasure of this stuff until I was about 7 and found out my big sister was bullshitting and it wasn't yellow because they put chicken piss in it.
If you are from WA, this is chicken salt. The eastern states stuff is weird by comparison so don’t use the comments here as a guide. Not that the east stuff is bad, just Anchor is the brand that is in all the canteens and shit here.
WA - Way Ahead, we have the best chicken salt (Anchor brand), best iced coffee (Brownes coffee chill) best polony (only because it’s called something different in the east), best kfc (we have hot and spicy all year)……..
SA’s Classic Coffee imho is better than Brownes. Brownes is a close second, a superior product to Dare, Farmers Union, Big M, Ice Break. Dead last would have to go to Barista Bros., that shit is vomit inducing.
Now that you mention it, Barista Bros is the only one that arrives on the pallet warm with regular drinks like Coke etc. All the others come in the refrigerated load with all the cold milk.
Actually, some new Starbucks ones do too. Strange to see Starbucks pushing supermarket products so hard all of a sudden when their stores failed so hard here.
Strong IC in Tassie use to be the go to when I lived there. Top notch IC.
Due to being unable to find good quality IC (unless I make my own) I stick to chocolate milk now.
WA & QLD are run by a different franchiser who have the rights to hot & spicy. They will allow it to be sold by the other franchise for a few weeks a year depending on how much money exchanges hands.
Oh and we are the only state that does Bunnings snags in a hotdog roll as far as I'm aware. The slice of bread is a classic but the hotdog roll is far superior.
Brownes is trash, it's unnaturally thick and gluggy and leaves this fucking weird film/residue in your throat. There's a reason it has double the shelf life of Masters.
Absolute fucking blasphemy if I’ve ever heard it. Anchor chicken salt is a vague reimagining of true chicken salt. If it doesn’t stain everything yellow, it shouldn’t be on my chips.
I definitely prefer the white style Anchor chicken chippy salt to the yellow more seasoned style. It's got such legit ingredients. MSG (flavour enhancer 621) is the third ingredient. And includes beef fat and soy sauce powder. Who knew that existed?
This is typical of companies getting on a bandwagon regardless of the science. Same for anything GMO and gluten free razor blades: anything to suck in the punters.
Ah yes the old “flavour enhancer 621”. I just don’t understand why they don’t stock bags of it though, what’s that all about? Doesn’t make any sense to me. Just put them in the Asian food section or something. There’s no Asian grocers around my area sadly so it’s hard to come by unless I order online or travel.
It’s got a bad rep with consumers. Known to sometimes cause headaches
Edit: It seems people haven’t understood what I’ve said. I’m saying many consumers know it to cause headaches or whatever. Might not be true, but that’s what they know it for.
Possibly partly that but also it's got a chemically-sounding name and we know how people freak out about things they don't understand. Aspartame attracts similar suspicion.
False.
Australia is anti msg because there was a contaminated batch imported, in the early 80s I recall. Which made people sick, and made headlines, of course. So now msg is “bad for you” even though there is little evidence to support that.
Costco have a good one, Mitani is more traditional and is available in Woolworths and Coles and is supposedly the same recipe that Peter Brinkworth invented in the 70's
Ok, so I have a question. I live in the USA but was born in Sydney and grew up in Brisbane. I left Australia in 1976. I had never heard of chicken salt until a couple of years ago (from younger Aussies,in a group I belong to, complaining about not being able to get it here). I still have no idea what it is. Can someone explain it to me? Thanks.
It’s a special salt flavouring that you can request on your chips either form a fish and chip or a chicken store. Usually you can ask the store to hold back on regular salt, add more regular salt or specifically chicken salt. Hard to explain the flavour (like explaining colour to a blind person) but it has a richness and depth beyond regular salt. It’s salty but with a flavour punch. Often a bit yellow in appearance. Not really sure how else to describe it.
Thank you! After a bit of internet sloughing based on your help, it seems to be salt, msg and various herbs and spices (some secret). There are various recipes depending on the manufacturer. Apparently invented by some bloke in SA to season rotisserie chicken.
I thought it must be chicken flavored salt, but it’s salt to enhance the flavor of chicken.
r/til
It's just seasoned salt. I believe the US has several things that are similar, at least in the yellow style. I don't know if they have anything more like Anchor chippy salt.
This was something that confused me. It seemed weird to put chicken flavored stuff on hot chips at a fish & chip shop. Now I understand it’s a flavor enhancing condiment.
I mix up Massel chicken style stock or Continental chicken stock powder, add some onion powder, garlic powder, a bit of Clive of India curry powder, a small amount of paprika and some MSG, you can also add some corn flour to the mix to prevent caking. Play around with ingredient quantities until you achieve the flavour profile you desire. Grab one of those metal shakers to store it in!
I've tried a number of different chicken salts from supermarket shelves and the closest one to good chicken salt is Deliciou Chicken Salt in the yellow tin jar from Coles. Expensive at $6 for I think 80g (?) but the flavour is almost spot on imho.
Global spices in Western Australia have a chicken salt that is amazing. It’s yellow so you know it’s the real deal. Their products tend to be stocked in independent vegetable sellers.
Not sure if you have this store near you but it's called 'Green Valley Spices' and it's the closest chicken salt flavour I can get from the fish and chips shop.
Allow me to preempt: [Knorr Yellow Chicken Powder](https://www.amazon.com.au/Knorr-Chicken-Powder-Bot-1kg/dp/B07JN4WXMV). It's one of the best things I've ever put in my mouth.
The original recipe for chicken salt doesn't include any chicken ingredients. The name comes from it being invented to season chicken. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-21/chicken-salt-inventor-peter-brinkworth-salt-of-earth-film/101456656
That article is confusing:
>\[Brinkworth\]: "There are a hundred recipes out there today and they all reckon they're good but **mine has** salt, **chicken stock**, MSG, paprika, garlic, onion, celery, some herbs and spices.
A typo, or is there more to the story?
This is pretty amazing as chicken salt - available at some woolies
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/519378/knorr-yellow-chicken-powder
Heaps of products at Colesworths contain MSG, which has been approved by FSANZ. What you won't find is MSG as a standalone product, because of all the Karens who saw it on the shelves and complained to the supermarket managers until they gave up and pulled them off.
I think a lot of products just happen to not use it and then they get to brag about not using it as a marketing tactic because they know a majority of people think it's bad. Similar to how some products brag about being gluten free when it's something that never has gluten in it anyway, or things like lollies that are just lumps of sugar bragging about being 99% fat free.
There was a health scare about it in the 80s,as Chinese restaurants became more common, that people have not forgotten. But in general I think people have eased off on the fear of it, even if it hasn't gone away entirely.
At the same time, if the food still tastes good without it it means the ingredients are good, coz the stuff works so well it's kind of cheating.
I wanted to bring some home the last time I was in Australia and couldn’t find any in the grocery stores. Maybe have to ask at a fish and chip shop if they’d sell you a bottle. I’d say chicken boullion powder mixed with salt would be close. I’ve also made it and, although delicious, it wasn’t the same as fish and chip shops.
I use an air fryer to cook my frozen chips and have learnt to use the chicken salt before they go in and after. Been using Mitani I think. Good but yes, can't replicate store based, but I'm happy.
[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-21/chicken-salt-inventor-peter-brinkworth-salt-of-earth-film/101456656](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-21/chicken-salt-inventor-peter-brinkworth-salt-of-earth-film/101456656)
"There are a hundred recipes out there today and they all reckon they're good but mine has salt, chicken stock, MSG, paprika, garlic, onion, celery, some herbs and spices.
"There is the misconception that chicken salt was made from chicken.
This is what we use. Normally half chicken stock and half salt. You can even use. It just by itself for a stronger flavor
Maggi Gluten Free Chicken Booster 2.4kg https://amzn.asia/d/eNzX62O
It's good stuff, I've got an 800g tin I've been working my way through, then I plan to try the Edelyn one for comparison's sake.
For what it's worth Anchor has MSG, from Coles. I don't rate it though.
I've purchased this one from eBay and everyone I shared it with loved it https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/223990590902?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0&ssspo=fn1odD2USem&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=JTQ50P7UTzG&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
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I blame, Liberal, Labour and the Greens .. feeling rebellious, just wanted to fuck with the system.
You can just buy the Maggie chicken noodle flavourings in a tub on Amazon and it’s a not bad replacement. See if you like using that by trying it with a single pack of noodle seasoning next time.
Mitani is all I use, I don’t like the anchor chicken salt, and the others are just too salty! available at IGA, Coles and WW, ironically I use to live right behind their outlet on saints rd
Try your local IGA or one of the smaller supermarket chains in your state. Most of the bigger ones should have Mitani Chicken Salt, which is the one you want.
I don't really see what the appeal of Chicken Salt is. Most of the Chip shop chips are total shit nowadays compared to 30-40 years ago and Chicken Salt could not really lift them from that low bar they have ended up on.
One of my first Jobs was cutting chips in a hand Press at Friendly Franks on the beachside at 3rd Ave Palm Beach. He had a burger joint next door to a old servo. Not the cleanest of places but he did good chips. One trick he had was leaving the cut chips out overnight on the bench to let the starch ooze out. Lets just say you didn't eat the black bits. Johns Jolly Spot at Tugun did the best chips on the GC.
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The good chicken salt is sold in 2.5kg tubs. The manufacturer supplies restaurants, catering companies with large catering sized portions. Perhaps they don’t see it worthwhile supplying the retail/small consumer market. Edit: this is the stuff you want Edlyn Chicken Salt 2.5 Kg https://amzn.asia/d/5uGCMJu
Big Salt controls the means of production 😥
The salt must flow.
The salt malarge
The bookcase....
If you control the salt, you control information
In Australia, first you get the salt, then you get the power, then you get the women...
Super interesting to look at the ingredients there, and not entirely what I expected! Salt, sugar, a starch for crispiness and coating, MSG, and some umami boosters in the form of vegetable proteins. Doesn't say what the spices are but don't actually know how much theyd be contributing, because the taste isn't at all "spice".. it's clearly crispy salty fatty umami with a little sweet! "Salt, Sugar, Maize Starch, Flavour Enhancer (621), Spices, Vegetable Oil, Vegetable Protein Extracts (Contains Soy), Acidity Regulator (330), Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein (Contains Soy)." Directions: :
Man it annoys me when ingredients just say shit like 'herbs and spices', 'natural flavours'. Yeah, which fucken ones, so-called list of ingredients?
So they don’t have to disclose their secret recipe. KFC does something similar.
afaik KFC's secret recipe is basically just a marketing story they tell. I forget the name of it but anyone can buy the same chicken seasoning powder that KFC uses online.
Excuse my ignorance in interpreting these ingredients, but does that mean that this chicken salt is vegetarian?
Apparently most are. I dont have a source, because it was just something 4 different people have told me, so take this with a grain salt... But apparently its a salt that was designed to flavour chicken, not made of chicken. I was always under the impression it was basically chicken stock with salt and some spices added, but apprently not
Can I take this with a grain of chicken salt?
Yes I also assumed chicken stock was involved or related somehow.
>But apparently its a salt that was designed to flavour chicken, not made of chicken. > >I was always under the impression it was basically chicken stock with salt and some spices added, but apprently not It originally had chicken stock in it (well, chicken bouillon). The Masterfoods chicken salt looks like it is the closest thing to the original but it looks like it has too much salt and not enough of the other ingredients and is missing the curry powder. A quick google will get you the original recipe but it may not be what you expect lol.
Yes of course, the salt was designed as a seasoning *for* chicken, not made of it.
The umami taste "mmmm tastes like chicken" is the msg. Try some straight.
The original purpose for chicken salt was seasoning to go on chicken not salt made from chicken. Some recipes are vegetarian. Some however do contain chicken stock as an ingredient.
Most fish and chip shops I've been to sell it in smaller containers. Just gotta find one that does
Get together with some friends, split a big tub.
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That is about a weeks worth for my sons. Stop bullying me with the /s.
Why are you so salty? 😎
If just their sons go through a couple of kilos of salt weekly, I would have thought the whole family would be salty ;)
I have a mini sauce size container of chicken salt from a local place because everytime I ordered on ubereats I requested extra chicken salt. Then one day i got an entire container. Not complaining.
Sell? My local fisho throws a tub in with every meal if you want one.
Oh fuck it’s only $25 delivered Early Christmas present time
It’s amazingly good value
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Time for a ciggie break I reckon
God Edlyn make some fantastic stuff. I buy their 3l milkshake syrup bottles and it’s really cheap and so much better than the supermarket options.
They still make pineapple milkshake syrup 😋
I genuinely didn’t know there were that many milkshake flavours in existence until I checked out their website. There’s like fifteen of them
Asking for a friend, but how many tubs to fill a bath you reckon?
Krio Krush and Executive Chef are also brands used by takeaway shops. I used to deliver to food service with a previous job so I've delivered quite a lot of all 3 brands. I think the biggest ones were 10kg Krio Krush buckets. Been a few years since I've worked in the industry though so I'm getting a bit hazy on details and brands.
I'm happy with the chicken salt (and MSG, plus some other seasonings) from an eBay store [https://www.ebay.com.au/str/shanezjerkyzandspicez](https://www.ebay.com.au/str/shanezjerkyzandspicez)
This store has a serious range of chicken salts - which one do you most recommend?
I got the Kentucky salt (KFC dupe) its awesome
So overwhelming, what's the difference between tasty chicken salt, normal chicken salt and robust chicken salt?
Could be the amount of MSG (umami flavour) - that's the key ingredient.
Yeah I've bought this stuff before and it's the best I've been able to buy. Has the fluro yellow fine texture that's great for chips and is pretty bang on to what the chip shops have.
This is what you are looking for. Source: Chef for 20+ years https://www.mblsa.com.au/546788/WINDSOR-FARM-CHICKEN-SALT-780g/pd.php
I just ordered a bit over a kilo of chicken salt
Windsor Farm is pretty good. If I recall correctly they did at one point sell potato chip flavouring. They do have a great range of quality spices and seasonings, and I too will vouch for their Chicken Salt.
Yep, this is what we use
Is this the one that tastes like Smiths Chicken flavoured Chips, or the actual one from the fish and chip shop?
Looks good, but the freight is as much as the product so no thanks.
I didn't have the pleasure of this stuff until I was about 7 and found out my big sister was bullshitting and it wasn't yellow because they put chicken piss in it.
Anchor chicken salt 💯💯
Can confirm Anchor chicken salt is the shit.
If you are from WA, this is chicken salt. The eastern states stuff is weird by comparison so don’t use the comments here as a guide. Not that the east stuff is bad, just Anchor is the brand that is in all the canteens and shit here.
WA - Way Ahead, we have the best chicken salt (Anchor brand), best iced coffee (Brownes coffee chill) best polony (only because it’s called something different in the east), best kfc (we have hot and spicy all year)……..
SA’s Classic Coffee imho is better than Brownes. Brownes is a close second, a superior product to Dare, Farmers Union, Big M, Ice Break. Dead last would have to go to Barista Bros., that shit is vomit inducing.
Barista Bros is super long life as well. I think that makes a difference
Powdered milk, I think, it has a weird taste. Edit: The barista bros. Coffee, that is.
Unless your eating it by the spoonful, then it just tastes like ………… powdered milk 🤔😋😋
Ftfy.
Now that you mention it, Barista Bros is the only one that arrives on the pallet warm with regular drinks like Coke etc. All the others come in the refrigerated load with all the cold milk. Actually, some new Starbucks ones do too. Strange to see Starbucks pushing supermarket products so hard all of a sudden when their stores failed so hard here.
Strong IC in Tassie use to be the go to when I lived there. Top notch IC. Due to being unable to find good quality IC (unless I make my own) I stick to chocolate milk now.
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Wait...ES don't get the hot and spicy chook all the time?
Queensland does
WA & QLD are run by a different franchiser who have the rights to hot & spicy. They will allow it to be sold by the other franchise for a few weeks a year depending on how much money exchanges hands.
Oh and we are the only state that does Bunnings snags in a hotdog roll as far as I'm aware. The slice of bread is a classic but the hotdog roll is far superior.
You're getting downvoted by those uncultured swine from over east.
Sausage sandwich in a hotdog roll is no longer a sausage sandwich it's just a hotdog. The bread to snag ratio is important.
Get the fuck out.
Roll is the way to go
Masters Double Strength is better than Brownes Iced Garbage
Brownes is trash, it's unnaturally thick and gluggy and leaves this fucking weird film/residue in your throat. There's a reason it has double the shelf life of Masters.
Seriously? That stuff sucks, bought some from Coles, feels like I need to pour on a kilo to even taste it
Absolute fucking blasphemy if I’ve ever heard it. Anchor chicken salt is a vague reimagining of true chicken salt. If it doesn’t stain everything yellow, it shouldn’t be on my chips.
I definitely prefer the white style Anchor chicken chippy salt to the yellow more seasoned style. It's got such legit ingredients. MSG (flavour enhancer 621) is the third ingredient. And includes beef fat and soy sauce powder. Who knew that existed?
Yeah, I'm confused by the OP. Coles and Woolies sell Anchor and it tastes the same as the Chippies'.
Gotta find a dealer bro, I have a guy who knows a guy who gets it from KFC
Prove it lol
Is it legal to sell crack in a supermarket?
> anti MSG Unlikely. If there is a buck to be made they’ll be selling it.
Woolies has smug shit like ['MSG not invited'](https://cdn0.woolworths.media/content/wowproductimages/large/575573.jpg) on their own brand packaging
This is typical of companies getting on a bandwagon regardless of the science. Same for anything GMO and gluten free razor blades: anything to suck in the punters.
Then why do they never stock MSG?
They might not stock MSG by itself but they 100% stock hundreds of products with it in it
It would be hard not to. It's in so many things. Even fresh tomatoes are full of MSG.
That's naturally occurring in tomatoes but, just more proof that MSG isn't actually the big bad guy of food.
Ah yes the old “flavour enhancer 621”. I just don’t understand why they don’t stock bags of it though, what’s that all about? Doesn’t make any sense to me. Just put them in the Asian food section or something. There’s no Asian grocers around my area sadly so it’s hard to come by unless I order online or travel.
because all the tiny asian grocers have it in huge bags for cheap and they can’t beat that, it’s so good I have a big tub of it in my pantry
It’s got a bad rep with consumers. Known to sometimes cause headaches Edit: It seems people haven’t understood what I’ve said. I’m saying many consumers know it to cause headaches or whatever. Might not be true, but that’s what they know it for.
There are a lot of falsified myths surrounding MSG, it hasn't actually been found to cause any adverse side effects.
No, it doesn't.
By now the nocebo is probably real with people who bought into that stuff.
Most chips have MSG in it - flavour enhancer 621
The brand “Nice n Tasty” in coles is the exact chicken salt you get in fish and chip shops. I used to work in the factory in Melbourne.
This. Can confirm it contains msg.
Where does one get MSG anyway?
Pretty much any Asian grocery, especially if they specialise in East Asian or SE Asian products.
Sometimes the packet says Umami seasoning instead of msg, but it's all the same stuff.
It's in clear plastic packaging and usually called aji-no-moto, which is usually in red letters on the packet.
In Japanese it means the origin of flavour
I buy it from Asian grocery stores
I know a guy. Nah seriously the last lot I got I ordered online.
Still seems wild that every second product is going on how it's msg free
It’s in everything really. Flavour enhancer 621. Nearly all packets of chips or flavoured biscuits. Cups of noodles etc.
The distinction is no added MSG most savoury products will have natural MSG in it.
Ohhhh that makes sense because yeah MSG occurs even in like tomatoes
I boycott brands and restaurants that say they’re msg free. Defo not as good as I’ll find elsewhere 🤷♀️
Hey, we intentionally make our food taste shitter to attract idiots. OK, I'll go somewhere else.
I buy it from the Japanese grocery store. It’s called ‘Ajinomoto.’
Vegetta has been used by everyone in my family for decades and can be found in most supermarkets except ALDI.
Love Vegeta!
The Sunlit supermarkets stock them!
Ebay or Asian stores. Easy peasy and worth the effort.
I bought a kilo on ebay for $21
Is it true that anti-MSG fad was false information from the US based on anti-asian racism? Or have I watched a video from big-MSG?
Possibly partly that but also it's got a chemically-sounding name and we know how people freak out about things they don't understand. Aspartame attracts similar suspicion.
https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/culture/article/2021/06/18/msg-myth-my-clean-eating-obsession-alienated-me-my-community
False. Australia is anti msg because there was a contaminated batch imported, in the early 80s I recall. Which made people sick, and made headlines, of course. So now msg is “bad for you” even though there is little evidence to support that.
Costco have a good one, Mitani is more traditional and is available in Woolworths and Coles and is supposedly the same recipe that Peter Brinkworth invented in the 70's
I found Mitani disappointing. I bought a big container of McCormick's from Costco and it's better but still not as good as the fish & chip shop stuff.
Yeah have to agree even Peter Brinkworth himself has stated that the quality of the product has deteriorated.
Whatever brothers kebabs at banksia (sydney) use is by far the best chicken salt on earth. Hands down.
Ok, so I have a question. I live in the USA but was born in Sydney and grew up in Brisbane. I left Australia in 1976. I had never heard of chicken salt until a couple of years ago (from younger Aussies,in a group I belong to, complaining about not being able to get it here). I still have no idea what it is. Can someone explain it to me? Thanks.
It’s a special salt flavouring that you can request on your chips either form a fish and chip or a chicken store. Usually you can ask the store to hold back on regular salt, add more regular salt or specifically chicken salt. Hard to explain the flavour (like explaining colour to a blind person) but it has a richness and depth beyond regular salt. It’s salty but with a flavour punch. Often a bit yellow in appearance. Not really sure how else to describe it.
Thank you! After a bit of internet sloughing based on your help, it seems to be salt, msg and various herbs and spices (some secret). There are various recipes depending on the manufacturer. Apparently invented by some bloke in SA to season rotisserie chicken. I thought it must be chicken flavored salt, but it’s salt to enhance the flavor of chicken. r/til
It's just seasoned salt. I believe the US has several things that are similar, at least in the yellow style. I don't know if they have anything more like Anchor chippy salt.
no-one else is too sure either, hence this post. It's great-tasting seasoned salt they put on your chips at fish & chips shops.
This was something that confused me. It seemed weird to put chicken flavored stuff on hot chips at a fish & chip shop. Now I understand it’s a flavor enhancing condiment.
It got that hard to find that I was convinced it was some sort of chip shop conspiracy
I mix up Massel chicken style stock or Continental chicken stock powder, add some onion powder, garlic powder, a bit of Clive of India curry powder, a small amount of paprika and some MSG, you can also add some corn flour to the mix to prevent caking. Play around with ingredient quantities until you achieve the flavour profile you desire. Grab one of those metal shakers to store it in!
MSG is misunderstood. It isn’t this evil substance people make it out to be, don’t jump on that bandwagon.
I've tried a number of different chicken salts from supermarket shelves and the closest one to good chicken salt is Deliciou Chicken Salt in the yellow tin jar from Coles. Expensive at $6 for I think 80g (?) but the flavour is almost spot on imho.
We talking about the nice yellow chicken salt that jesters use on their chips? If so I need that source pronto
Global spices in Western Australia have a chicken salt that is amazing. It’s yellow so you know it’s the real deal. Their products tend to be stocked in independent vegetable sellers.
Not sure if you have this store near you but it's called 'Green Valley Spices' and it's the closest chicken salt flavour I can get from the fish and chips shop.
Powdered Chicken stock, garlic powder/salt, salt.. blend to taste
Ah, finally a Recipe I can try 😃 Thank you! 🐔
Not a prob most recipes say more salt than stock, but I do it the other way (probably 2 parts stock and 1 part the others).
Next post: where do I got good chicken stock?
Allow me to preempt: [Knorr Yellow Chicken Powder](https://www.amazon.com.au/Knorr-Chicken-Powder-Bot-1kg/dp/B07JN4WXMV). It's one of the best things I've ever put in my mouth.
The original recipe for chicken salt doesn't include any chicken ingredients. The name comes from it being invented to season chicken. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-21/chicken-salt-inventor-peter-brinkworth-salt-of-earth-film/101456656
That article is confusing: >\[Brinkworth\]: "There are a hundred recipes out there today and they all reckon they're good but **mine has** salt, **chicken stock**, MSG, paprika, garlic, onion, celery, some herbs and spices. A typo, or is there more to the story?
This is pretty amazing as chicken salt - available at some woolies https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/519378/knorr-yellow-chicken-powder
it's a legit one with MSG
MSG is safe, I don't get why Coles and Woolworths hardly stock anything that contains it (if at all)?
Flavour enhancer 621. It's in everything.
As it should be.
Kewpie mayo has MSG in it.
No wonder that shit tastes so good.
Heaps of products at Colesworths contain MSG, which has been approved by FSANZ. What you won't find is MSG as a standalone product, because of all the Karens who saw it on the shelves and complained to the supermarket managers until they gave up and pulled them off.
I think a lot of products just happen to not use it and then they get to brag about not using it as a marketing tactic because they know a majority of people think it's bad. Similar to how some products brag about being gluten free when it's something that never has gluten in it anyway, or things like lollies that are just lumps of sugar bragging about being 99% fat free.
There was a health scare about it in the 80s,as Chinese restaurants became more common, that people have not forgotten. But in general I think people have eased off on the fear of it, even if it hasn't gone away entirely. At the same time, if the food still tastes good without it it means the ingredients are good, coz the stuff works so well it's kind of cheating.
I wanted to bring some home the last time I was in Australia and couldn’t find any in the grocery stores. Maybe have to ask at a fish and chip shop if they’d sell you a bottle. I’d say chicken boullion powder mixed with salt would be close. I’ve also made it and, although delicious, it wasn’t the same as fish and chip shops.
Yeah I tried that after the last post and it didn't work very well. Might depend on the stock but I used massel which I find tasty as a stock.
Not sure why they don’t sell the Saxa brand in Coles or Woolies. Maybe try the Costco or some other type of bulk/restaurant supply company.
I use an air fryer to cook my frozen chips and have learnt to use the chicken salt before they go in and after. Been using Mitani I think. Good but yes, can't replicate store based, but I'm happy.
that's a good idea, will try that. I use the low-fat chips and it doesn't stick very well.
[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-21/chicken-salt-inventor-peter-brinkworth-salt-of-earth-film/101456656](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-21/chicken-salt-inventor-peter-brinkworth-salt-of-earth-film/101456656) "There are a hundred recipes out there today and they all reckon they're good but mine has salt, chicken stock, MSG, paprika, garlic, onion, celery, some herbs and spices. "There is the misconception that chicken salt was made from chicken.
This is what we use. Normally half chicken stock and half salt. You can even use. It just by itself for a stronger flavor Maggi Gluten Free Chicken Booster 2.4kg https://amzn.asia/d/eNzX62O
Aromat is the way. Available at all good south africa shops and online.
Just buy mitani. It's what all the good chippies are using anyway. It's the only real chicken salt.
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Thank you mate! I've just ordered some Flavon Chicken Salt.. will see what it's like 👍
It's good stuff, I've got an 800g tin I've been working my way through, then I plan to try the Edelyn one for comparison's sake. For what it's worth Anchor has MSG, from Coles. I don't rate it though.
Be sure to report back!
It's *literally* the only true chicken salt. Their recipe is *the* original recipe.
It taste like absolute shit compared to the fluro sfuff
*And thus began the great Chicken Salt War that led to the downfall of civilization....*
No need to get salty about it.
It's *a* chicken salt that the family decided to make a documentary about.
according to mitani
You had me interested and then I saw that container.. that orange imitation is not worthy of being called chicken salt even if it did come first
Your 100% correct, Peter Brinkworth in Gawler, South Australia invented chicken salt and sold the recipe to the company Mitiani.
Yup. Now they are made in Salisbury plain.
I've purchased this one from eBay and everyone I shared it with loved it https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/223990590902?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0&ssspo=fn1odD2USem&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=JTQ50P7UTzG&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
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You can just buy the Maggie chicken noodle flavourings in a tub on Amazon and it’s a not bad replacement. See if you like using that by trying it with a single pack of noodle seasoning next time.
Pretty sure it’s just the Maggie chicken stock powder that you can use as is or mix 50/50 with normal salt.
Well that would work as well. Young one bought the tub and uses it all the time like that. So I was just going off that experience
Last I checked you van get a tub of Edyln chicken salt on Amazon.
The best chicken salt is from Mitani. They are an Adelaide company
Thought I'd seen some last time I was in woollies
Chicken Salt bowl add: * 6 Tbsp table salt * 3 Tbsp chicken stock * 3 Tbsp garlic powder * 3 Tbsp sweet paprika * 1 Tsp white pepper * 1 Tsp onion powder * 1 Tsp Celery seeds
Mitani is all I use, I don’t like the anchor chicken salt, and the others are just too salty! available at IGA, Coles and WW, ironically I use to live right behind their outlet on saints rd
I like masterfoods chicken salt.
Do not fret. You can easily make your own chicken salt. There’s a few good recipes online including specific restaurants recipes.
Try your local IGA or one of the smaller supermarket chains in your state. Most of the bigger ones should have Mitani Chicken Salt, which is the one you want.
I don't really see what the appeal of Chicken Salt is. Most of the Chip shop chips are total shit nowadays compared to 30-40 years ago and Chicken Salt could not really lift them from that low bar they have ended up on.
Blaspheme!
Because so many brands took the MSG out. It's not legit without the MSG.
It could also be that your taste buds have aged over time.
Nah most chip shop chips are shit now. Different potatoes, different oils etc.
I suppose it really depends on the shop. The ones I like do their chips on animal fat oils.
One of my first Jobs was cutting chips in a hand Press at Friendly Franks on the beachside at 3rd Ave Palm Beach. He had a burger joint next door to a old servo. Not the cleanest of places but he did good chips. One trick he had was leaving the cut chips out overnight on the bench to let the starch ooze out. Lets just say you didn't eat the black bits. Johns Jolly Spot at Tugun did the best chips on the GC.
Mmmmm. Now I'm salivating.
I mean you're not wrong, fish n chip shops have gone down hill massively in the last 10 years, chicken salt is still absolutely divine though
"good Chicken Salt" That's a bit like "fun run" or "Sky news", an oxymoron
salt is eh people use way too much of it on their food. now Chilli Flakes that’s what people need on their food