Reddit reviews Aji No Moto Ajinomoto Monosodium Glutamate Umami Seasoning 454g / 1LB / 16oz HALAL

Much cheaper: http://www.amazon.com/Ajinomoto-Monosodium-Glutamate-Umami-Seasoning/dp/B00IH28XDE/ref=sr_1_1?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1452530498&sr=1-1&keywords=MSG

You can a plastic bagged version like that from any Asian store for $1-3.

>https://www.amazon.com/Ajinomoto-Monosodium-Glutamate-Umami-Seasoning/dp/B00IH28XDE

I think you mean FLAVOUR and FLAVOUR is awesome.

Everyone should own a bag of MSG. That shit takes good food and makes it great.

For $6.11 you can turn good soup into great soup. Most other foods benefit as well.

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I bought a pound of this from Amazon and I use it constantly. MSG is delicious and enhances almost every meal.

You don't want to put MSG in sweets. Chocolate chip cookies with MSG aren't very good. Neither are MSG pancakes or anything else that's sweet.

But for everything else, use it. My only caution is not to overdo it. You don't need much MSG to make things delicious. Only a pinch to my eggs makes them delicious. But a tablespoon would be a bad idea.

Anyhow, this bag is inexpensive. Tack it on to your next Amazon order. Then start adding it to everything - you will be very happy with the result.

Some of my favorites, off the top of my head:

• La Gan Ma Spicy Chili Crisp. It's a salty condiment that's ridiculously addictive:

https://www.tastecooking.com/cult-spicy-chile-crisp/

• Chinese sausage have a unique sweet flavor from rice wine or sorghum wine. Slice them into little coins and add to a stir-fry. Many varieties are available (some are all pork and some contain added pork liver or chicken.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_sausage

• Red dragonfruit, if they have them (most dragonfruit are pink on the outside, and boring white on the inside; sometimes you can find ones that are red on the inside, and I like those much better. The market will label them somehow if they're the more expensive red-centered ones.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya

• Pork floss ("pork sung"; this is dried shredded barbecued pork, used as a topping for some comfort foods such as congee. It tastes a bit like bacon, but they have the texture of cotton candy.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousong

• Japanese curry bricks are a great shortcut to making Japanese-style curry. All you need to add are meat, vegetables, and water. S&B Golden Curry is a good first choice for beginners, but there are many other varieties available.

https://www.sbfoods-worldwide.com/recipes/010.html

• Thai curry paste combined with coconut milk makes Thai-style curry. Many varieties are available; if you're new, I suggest starting with a tiny can of Maesri brand "karee" (yellow curry) flavor, combined with 1 can of coconut milk.

https://importfood.com/products/thai-curry-paste/item/karee-curry-paste

• Koon Chun brand Black and Double Black soy sauce are variations of dark soy sauce with molasses added for extra sweetness and color, but not thickened the way some other compounded soy sauces are. Sometimes I substitute Koon Chun's black soy for dark soy sauce in recipes.

https://www.amazon.ca/Koon-Chun-Double-Black-Sauce/dp/B00012OI0U

• Chinkiang black vinegar (many brands are available) is tangy and is what makes good hot & sour soup brown. It's essential for many Chinese recipes (balsamic vinegar is sometimes used as a substitute.)

https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Plum-Chinkiang-Vinegar-18-6/dp/B00BUIKGU0

• A bag of MSG crystals! You will likely never use all of that one-pound bag but it's something cheap that you can experiment with.

https://www.amazon.ca/Ajinomoto-Monosodium-Glutamate-Umami-Seasoning/dp/B00IH28XDE

• dried shiitake mushrooms. Shiitakes are considered an expensive, exotic item in Western cuisine, but in Asian cuisine they're just the regular mushrooms, and quite affordable if you buy them dried. You have to soak them in hot water (and then trim off the stem) before using them.

https://www.taste.com.au/quick-easy/articles/how-to-prepare-dried-shiitake-mushrooms/8jwnrwwb

• frozen gyoza imported from Japan (Shirakiku and Ajinomoto are the two big Japanese frozen food brands.) Many flavors are available. They're some of my favorite snack foods, though cooking them can be a little bit of a scary experience due to hot oil. Make a basic dumpling sauce by mixing the black soy sauce (above) with a little of the black vinegar (above)!

https://www.amazon.com/Ajinomoto-Chicken-Gyoza-Dumplings-Frozen/dp/B013H9M9YA

https://www.japaneseflavours.com/recipes/16_yaki-gyoza-pan-fried-how-to-cook-frozen-gyoza

...if you prefer chewier dumplings, the store will also have a wide variety of Chinese frozen potstickers (in the northeastern US you may hear them called "Peking Ravioli".) They have a thicker pastry.

apparently amazon sells it too! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IH28XDE/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687402&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000N8EV8G&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1JX553Q0QQQ268VX1K9T

Ajinomoto is the most common brand. https://www.amazon.com/Ajinomoto-Monosodium-Glutamate-Umami-Seasoning/dp/B00IH28XDE?th=1

My Doctor tells me I shouldn't buy bargain umami

You can get it here. Not exactly a little bottle... but you can easily put it in a little bottle and keep the rest up in the cupboard.

But if it must be in a bottle, here. It's more expensive than the 1lb bag though.

A few things I use that you might want to try.
Umami Powder
MSG
Kitchen Bouquet

Annoying how hard it used to be to get MSG. Thank god for Amazon!

I just use MSG since it's so freaking cheap.

I get this kind from Amazon. Cheap, lasts a long-ass time.

Get some of this. Mix a bit of powdered sugar, salt and this with it before you sprinkle it on. You can use a fine mist sprayer to squirt on some lime juice so the powder adheres if you want. Using these ingredients, you will have the ability to bring the flavor you seek well beyond insane. If you want to take it to the next level, grate the skin of the lime into the powder, mix it up and let it hang out there for a bit before you use it. This will give you the lime aroma. You will now have the best lime chips you have ever consumed in your life. If you want to advance from there, buy some tortillas chop them into triangles fry them up in some canola oil till crisp. Set them on a wire rack and sprinkle on your mixture.

Ajinomoto is the OG manufacturer of msg, so look for their label at the Asian grocery. Or, here

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00IH28XDE/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1452535670&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=msg&dpPl=1&dpID=51Lfdg8citL&ref=plSrch

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00IH28XDE/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1450898129&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=msg&dpPl=1&dpID=51Lfdg8citL&ref=plSrch

Yep. Growing up, my grandmother referred to it by one of the brand names, Ajinomoto, I had no idea it was actually MSG.
http://www.amazon.com/Ajinomoto-Monosodium-Glutamate-Umami-Seasoning/dp/B00IH28XDE

Amazon has some.

I bought a bag of this two years ago and it is still going strong. Use it like salt when you want a little more umami in your dish. Really great stuff!

http://www.amazon.com/Ajinomoto-Monosodium-Glutamate-Umami-Seasoning/dp/B00IH28XDE

For those who have yet to discover pure MSG

You can buy it in some hispanic/asian grocery stores as Ajinomoto.

I'd recommend Aji No Moto brand. They're the same exact thing, but yours is over $15 for two pounds; mine is $6 for one pound.

http://www.amazon.com/Ajinomoto-Monosodium-Glutamate-Umami-Seasoning/dp/B00IH28XDE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452534316&sr=8-1&keywords=MSG+powder

I'm talking about taste not safety.

Look I'm not some MSG conspiracy theorist who thinks that it's gives you cancer or some other shit. I use this stuff every day and I'm well aware it's already in lots of foods like mushrooms. Also glutamine is an essential amino acid so you're gonna need to eat it in some form anyways.

I could understand if somebody really likes MSG and wants to use 10-20x more than I do. But if this guy is really using MSG by the bucket full that is at least two orders of magnitude higher. This is usually the largest packet they come in. Notice that it's 1 lb (already 10x what I use in a year). A "container of MSG as big as a baby" would be more than 10lbs! That is just a whole another playing field. That guy's using restaurant levels of this stuff while cooking for himself! That level of consumption is unheard of!

If you've ever cooked with this stuff, you'll know that you don't need very much. And like with any other spice, if you put in too much, it will just taste artificial and weird. This is way beyond "I like the taste of it" and more like "I'm addicted". "Cook to taste" will only get you so far, and if you're using as much as OP claims you must either have really bad taste or killed most of your taste-buds.

You can buy it on Amazon with free Prime shipping here. I usually get Ajinomoto brand from Japan.

Actually I just decided to check amazon.

1 pound of it for 7.50, or I can get it in a shaker, 3.5 ounces for 8.50.

Grabbing a pound and using my own shaker, MSG is such a nice flavoring.

Here ya go: Aji No Moto Ajinomoto Monosodium Glutamate

Sure it's no meaty beef stew, but it is surprisingly delicious and hearty. It's basically vegetable broth with cabbage for some crunch and texture, plus mirepoix. You could add whatever veggies you wanted in addition as well.

Also this makes everything delicious, and reduces the amount of fat/sodium you'd otherwise use to make it tasty!