Not who you asked but I use a blend. Ingredients:
MSG
Disodium guanylate
Disodium inosinate
Fine sea salt
What you will do is blend the MSG:Disodiums at a 3:1 ratio (respectively) by weight.
Then combine this MSG blend with the fine salt in a 1:9 ratio.
I bought this off amazon.
amazon My bad. Known as I+G
I’ve done a few iterations, and I’ve settled on using a mix of 125 g salt to 10 g MSG. (I also sometimes add 1 g of I+G flavor enhancer, if you want to go down that rabbit hole.)
I find that it’s so easy to overdo it on the MSG, and this mixture does a good job of keeping me from ruining dinner. It’s the difference between “wow this is really good” and “did you put something weird in this”.
If you want to get slightly more esoteric, you can mix I+G into your msg at a 1:3 ratio of I+G to MSG in order to get an even more intense umami effect. Might seem expensive, but if you get the 350g tub it is good for 1050g of msg (1400g total) which is not much per serving.
Cool secret not a lot of people know about:
https://www.amazon.com/Sodium-Inosinate-Guanylate-100-gram/dp/B07ZQSMPDF
Buy this and combine it with the msg for 8x more potent umami than msg alone. There is not one ratio everyone agrees upon, so research and exporement. Start with maybe 8 parts msg to 2 parts I + G
I use make my own Supersalt, with three of the five-prime nucleotide salts: MSG, disodium inosinate, and disodium guanylate, plus regular salt.
There’s a recipe and explanation of supersalt online. Same base ingredients as Japanese and Korean soup base. I bought the ingredients at Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Sodium-Inosinate-Guanylate-100-gram/dp/B07ZQSMPDF
https://www.amazon.com/Spice-Supreme-Monosodium-Glutamate-Plastic/dp/B076PMPTQG
I personally get them from Amazon. You should be able to find MSG at grocery stores though.
Yeah I got this a while back, lasts forever and it really complements the MSG imo.
Sorry for the Amazon link, I imagine you can find it from other sites as well
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