In this episode... Doug and Sarah make the worlds best fries and the worlds best seasoning - the Australian classic: chicken salt. Recipes this week come from Heston Blumenthal and Ross Dobson.

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Dobson, Ross. The Lost Recipes. Echo Publishing, 2024.

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Perret, Marcel Andre. "Chicken Flavor and Process for Preparing the Same." United States Patent US3689289A, 5 Sept. 1972. Google Patents, 

"Seasoned Salt." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation

Hsing, Jenny. "What Is Chicken Salt?" Epicurious, Condé Nast, 19 Aug. 2019

Brinkworth, Peter. "Chicken Salt Inventor Peter Brinkworth, Salt of the Earth." ABC News, 21 Sept. 2022

"America's Test Kitchen Editors." What Exactly Is Chicken Salt? America's Test Kitchen, 22 Sept. 2022

MasterChef. MasterChef Australia: The Cookbook (Series 3). Harper Collins, 2011

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