Agreed, I sometimes get duped by MSG in so called 'restaurants', by their chefs adding it to the meal for me never to return again. MSG gives me severe heart palpatations not to mention insomnia and anxiety, invented by the chinese.

I never heard of aromat before I came on this forum...

I have at least 20ish differents spices and I cook like I paint... A little bit of this, a little bit of that, let's taste. Hum... a bit more of this... Something is missing, let me see.... Oh, there we go!

I am not good at following recipes either, I find it quite boring. I look at the ingredients and I fit it with what I have and what I like.

Attitude coming from my Mother-in-law who teach me to cook Turkish food without any measurement beside a glass to mesure, taste to test and touch to get the proper texture. I have not much kitchen tools (2) beside my hands to mixed.

I am still learning thought...

I prefer Streumi (but for meat only).

Try it once and you can't live without it anymore....

Gosh. So much snarking and groaning.

It looks like Aromat needs to be added to smoking, dog beating and McChildren in the EF touchy subjects file.


P.S. There's only one condiment worthy of my table.

What IS it?

Tom

don't worry about it too much. he simply groans at everything he disagrees with. i actually wish people would groan me more, getting thanked is boring.

So true!! I'm not a big fan of bouillon cubes as I mostly cook from scratch. I always keep my freezer stocked with homemade chicken broth - the real kind that simmers all day. It's great to have on hand to drink when you get a cold or sore throat or to use in recipes.

I'd love to have homemade stock for soups and stuff, but how can I when we very rarely eat chicken on the bone?

In the UK we could buy litre tubs of stock, but it doesn't appear to be available here.

So it has to be boullion cubes or the Knorr jelly stuff.

Haha I love it!!

I hardly get on here and I find that you guys are waisting time arguing about a food substance that you can totally avoid by cooking a meal yourself or by finding a proper restaurant...there are no limitations to restaurant choice in this country.

Maybe you should spend more time reading a recipe book that focuses on using fresh ingredients. You should be praising the Swiss for their abundance of local farmer's markets where you can purchase all the ingredients you could want. But if you're a true KFC lover or burger muncher...all hope may be lost

That makes sense. The last batch I made I used a whole chicken and when it was finished I pulled all the meat and used it to make chicken enchiladas. So you could buy some chicken legs and make the stock and then have pulled chicken for salads and such. Not as convenient as purchasing a liter of stock, though!

I agree! And I rarely eat out, cook mostly from scratch and go to lots of markets and so on. But at work our cook uses tons of Aromat and that I cannot control. I've known for a long time that I cannot tolerate MSG so knowing Aromat is packed with MSG is valuable knowledge for me. I guess it means I have to start packing my own lunch, which is too bad as having lunch provided was so convenient.

This was a tough one, but I decided to fulfill your wish!

Tom

So what was that Garlic Pepper, Daddy's sauce and KFC Hot sauce doing on the table then?

Shhhhh...

I use Aromat on eggs and it tastes nice. It is widely available in North West UK.

point of order, Unilever are Anglo Dutch, not American owned.

It's heaven in a small pot !

Basically a spice anchovy paste , that you spread on toast

But only the classy know about it !

Looks the wrong colour to me.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...tlemens+relish

You can also buy stock in powder form from the Coop "fine food" range that does not contain MSG - chicken, fish, vegetable or beef

To respond to an earlier request, here is just one link talking about MSG and the effects, there are many more:

http://www.ehow.com/about_5432119_he...glutamate.html