My campbell's soup contains MSG

[ribbon13]

Naturally occuring MSG, and added MSG are two different beasts. That's a kitten to an elephant in terms of dosage.

The chinese restatraunt across the street has 50lbs bags of it, and watching them cook I can see why MSG has a strong chinese restaraunt association. Dear god, thats a lot of monosodium glutamate

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Naturally occuring MSG, and added MSG are two different beasts. That's a kitten to an elephant in terms of dosage.

The chinese restatraunt across the street has 50lbs bags of it, and watching them cook I can see why MSG has a strong chinese restaraunt association. Dear god, thats a lot of monosodium glutamate

Just because they have a 50lbs bags doesn't mean they use a lot of it in one dish.
Most dishes require a little msg to help with the taste. And if you're serving that many dishes of food a day, it would make sense for them to get 50lbs bags. no?

 

[torpid]

No dish worth having requires MSG. My soup was pretty weak already. It's cheap and convenient, it doesn't need to taste "savory". I have never added MSG to anything I've cooked, and sometimes it tastes good anyway. I wouldn't even know where to buy the stuff.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Naturally occuring MSG, and added MSG are two different beasts. That's a kitten to an elephant in terms of dosage.

Depends on the food I guess. A handful of shredded cheese would be at least 1 gram of MSG (which is why dairy recipes don't ususally have you add MSG, it won't enhance the flavor any more than the natural stuff). And many recipes have more than a handful of cheese per person (think pizza for example). MSG recipes often call for ~1 gram for the whole dish. Sure, you could put a whole lot more in, but often you don't. Thus, naturally occuring MSG may dominate the added MSG in many recipes.

 

[ribbon13]

For a large 32oz to go container of mongolian beef, they added what looked to be about 3 tablespoons worth of MSG. And they do this daily. I'm guessing I could make a huge lasagna with 4 times the mass and not come close to that.

 

[Lola]

Originally posted by: torpid
No dish worth having requires MSG. My soup was pretty weak already. It's cheap and convenient, it doesn't need to taste "savory". I have never added MSG to anything I've cooked, and sometimes it tastes good anyway. I wouldn't even know where to buy the stuff.

in the spice aisle of your local market. right next to the garlic powder and dried parsley

 

[torpid]

Hm... I am hungry hours after eating soup or chinese food. Coincidence? It doesn't happen with thai, indian, or indonesian food.

It could be related to the soup only having 200 calories as well, I suppose.

 

[sygyzy]

Originally posted by: torpid
Hm... I am hungry hours after eating soup or chinese food. Coincidence? It doesn't happen with thai, indian, or indonesian food.

It could be related to the soup only having 200 calories as well, I suppose.

That's clearly due to the MSG. One of it's main purposes is to make you hungry. The Chinese use it so you order more food or keep coming back for repeat visits.

 

[Dragoon42]

for a second I thought this was a thread about that alphabet soup, lol

 

[Tsaico]

Nacho Cheese Doritos have it too...

 

[JDrake]

I'd hit it..
err.. eat it