Chex Mix Season!

[gblowfish]

The lovely Mrs. B likes to make Chex Mix for the holidays and share it with her family and friends. She's been laid up with a bad back, so I've been making it this year. I've made two big batches so far, and batch #3 coming up this afternoon. I use Corn, Wheat and Rice Chex, Cheerios, stick pretzels, Planters mixed nuts and extra cashews, Worsh sauce, a stick of real buttah, seasoned salt, onion powder and garlic powder. Roast for an hour at 255 degrees, stir it up every 20 minutes so it doesn't burn the nuts. Nothing worse than burning your nuts. Thats as low as my oven will go. How do you make yours?

[gblowfish]

Originally Posted by emaw82

I always add a little cayenne to the seasonings. We recently started buying Dot's Homestyle pretzels and they're very good in chex mix. A few months back I threw a batch in the smoker in a couple foil pans for an hour (instead of the oven). That was very good for something a bit different.

A friend of mine uses Gates and Sons BBQ seasoning in his mix.

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Love my nuts roasted!

One of the mods can prolly hook you up with Billays phone number

[REDHOTGTO]

pretty much the same but i use dots spicy pretzel sticks and now i may use nuts thsat sounds great, oh and i do it on the smoker makes it awesome

[mlyonsd]

My wife's Grandma's recipe she came up with in 1955. From the family cookbook:

42 oz. Cereal, crackers, pretzels, nuts, whatever
1 lb Butter
1/3 C Worcestershire
1 t garlic salt
1 t onion salt
1 t celery salt
3 T chili powder

Mix all ingredients
Bake in shallow pan 1 hour at 300. Stir twice will baking

My wife's modifications are to place on multiple sheet pans and cut the heat to 250. But still stir at least twice. It sometimes takes more than an hour to dry the mixture out thoroughly.

Her 42 oz ingredients consist of Corn and Rice Chex, flat pretzels, plain Bugles, Cheez it Groves or Goldfish, Gardetto rye chips, mixed nuts.

The only argument I have with her is she likes Goldfish and I prefer the Grooves. And I'm not totally sure about the 42 oz of mix, she has a giant tupperware bowl she fills up and she's made it enough times she knows just the right amount.

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by mlyonsd

My wife's Grandma's recipe she came up with in 1955. From the family cookbook:

42 oz. Cereal, crackers, pretzels, nuts, whatever
1 lb Butter
1/3 C Worcestershire
1 t garlic salt
1 t onion salt
1 t celery salt
3 T chili powder

Mix all ingredients
Bake in shallow pan 1 hour at 300. Stir twice will baking

My wife's modifications are to place on multiple sheet pans and cut the heat to 250. But still stir at least twice. It sometimes takes more than an hour to dry the mixture out thoroughly.

Her 42 oz ingredients consist of Corn and Rice Chex, flat pretzels, plain Bugles, Cheez it Groves or Goldfish, Gardetto rye chips.

The only argument I have with her is she likes Goldfish and I prefer the Grooves. And I'm not totally sure about the 42 oz of mix, she has a giant tupperware bowl she fills up and she's made it enough times she knows just the right amount.

Bugles in Chex mix sounds amazing

[mlyonsd]

Originally Posted by Cave Johnson

Bugles in Chex mix sounds amazing

They are. When I open the giant tupperware to pick out a snack I choose in this order:

Bugle
Corn Chex
Almond
Rice Chex
Cashew
Cheezit or Goldfish

The rest are just ok.

[displacedinMN]

Cant eat chex mix or gardettos out of a bag....I get migraines.

[Zebedee DuBois]

The Mrs. added M&Ms to the batch this year. It's good, but they tend to concentrate in pockets yielding an imbalance in the sweet/salty dynamic.

[Graystoke]

I just eat the stuff but I prefer Gardetto’s in the mix.
Shits like crack cocaine

[ChiliConCarnage]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

My wife doesn't like the rye chips or cheez-its.

I feel like this should be a get out of jail free card in the courts.

[Mr. Plow]

My dad has been making his own chex mix for years. Loves doing it & every year he looks forward to it around Christmas time. This year, he made 50 lbs. of it and he'll do more after the 1st of the year. My favorite snack of the year. I really need to sit down with him and learn how he makes it.

[keg in kc]

I'm so broke I haven't made any this year. Hopefully can after my New Year's trip to Hawaii (my dad who lives there may have terminal cancer, this sort of is and isn't a vacation...).

Corn and Rice Chex (prefer not to have wheat) - 7 cups combined
Goldfish - 3 cups
Pretzel sticks - 1 cup
Cashews and almonds - 1 cup

I make it extra strong, usually do up two batches of the dry mix (24 cups total) and then mix it with 3x the standard wet mix on the Chex label.

And yes, Bugles are also amazing in it.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I'm so broke I haven't made any this year. Hopefully can after my New Year's trip to Hawaii (my dad who lives there may have terminal cancer, this sort of is and isn't a vacation...).

Corn and Rice Chex (prefer not to have wheat) - 7 cups combined
Goldfish - 3 cups
Pretzel sticks - 1 cup
Cashews and almonds - 1 cup

I make it extra strong, usually do up two batches of the dry mix (24 cups total) and then mix it with 3x the standard wet mix on the Chex label.

And yes, Bugles are also amazing in it.

Prayers for you pops, man. Much love coming your way.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Prayers for you pops, man. Much love coming your way.

Thanks.

Don't want to make a big thing of it. Mostly didn't want some asshat asking me why I was going to hawaii if I'm broke... LOL

[Mike in SW-MO]

My mom used to make me a big 10 of chex mix every year for Christmas. When she died in 2013 my daughter started making it. The 1st year she did not know to add anything to the mix. It was just plain chex. Since then she has stepped up her game and it is awesome. I ate a quart bag this weekend while hunting.