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The Surprising Versatility of Old Bay Seasoning
Those aren’t mashed potatoes — it’s ice cream.Whenever Old Bay pops up in a new product, chaos ensues. When Old Bay Hot Sauce debuted in 2020, it sold out quicker than anyone could find out whether it was a stunt. Now, the popular blend, a go-to topping for seafood, is featured in a sweet-and-savory seasoning: I stumbled across Hunt Valley's McCormick’s Old Bay Caramel Seasoning on Twitter in early September, drawn in (understandably) by a photo of a crab covered in the spices and hovering over a little pot of caramel sauce.
The limited-time product has sold out a few times over, but I did manage to snag a shaker of it. I was one of the lucky ones. The McCormick website provides a few recipe recommendations for the caramel blend—but what about all of those left in the Baltimore cold, their sweet-and-savory dreams dashed?
I toyed around with recreating the blend myself, combining regular Old Bay seasoning with caramel popcorn seasoning to only modest success. But what I really learned was just how versatile Old Bay is without the added caramel. Old Bay’s original notes don’t need any caramel complement; the seasoning on its own will transform your favorite foods—especially those you least expect.
What is Old Bay seasoning?
We always had a tin of the stuff at my parents’ house growing up, but I don’t have much experience using Old Bay, having long assumed it was relegated very specifically to seafood. And outside of the occasional fish stick, I didn’t have a ton of seafood in my life as a kid.
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