Fresh Five: Secret Ingredients with Chef John
Much like a magician never reveals his tricks to his audience, a chef never reveals his secret ingredients to his diners. Good thing we know a chef.
Chef John, of Hungry Nation channel Food Wishes fame, shares with us his top five favorite secret ingredients for this week’s installment of Fresh Five.

If you’ve ever found yourself praying to the culinary gods for that one mystery ingredient to tie your dish together, well consider your wish granted. Without giving too much away, we are in the business of secrets today after all, let’s just say Chef John touts one of his top five ingredients as the “bacon of spices.”

 Rest assured, we are not suggesting you permanently replace Adobo as your go-to secret ingredient – seriously, it turns a fried egg into a salty dream – but we think even the best chef’s bag of tricks can use an addition. While we may be a little biased, when Chef John has a recommendation, you ought to listen up. With 20 years of food industry experience and accolades like “Best Video Content” from the 2011 Saveur Best Food Blog Awards, Food Wishes is more like a dream come true for the aspiring cook.  

After getting the down low on his lowdown cooking affairs, head over to the Food Wishes blog and make sure to subscribe to the Food Wishes channel.
Most secrets are meant for keeping, but we think Chef John’s are simply too good to keep to ourselves.
So, make sure to share this with your friends, and share your favorite secret ingredients with us! We can promise not to tell, but we can’t promise our lips will be sealed – if they were, how the heck could we try ‘em? Ah, Mondays.