I make so much of this stuff. I literally use a whole box of each chex. To mix it I assemble it all in a new -garbage bag- large food safe bag like a bucket liner, pour in the butter mix and tumble the bag to coat everything. Then I dump it into two disposable turkey sized deep roaster trays. I start the second tray after 30 minutes. When the first one is done I dump it out on a parchment lined counter. I season with a blend of Mrs. Butter, fine ground black pepper and powdered jalapeno and leave it to cool for 30 min then it goes back into the tray and the second tray goes onto the counter... The day we have people over we just put out the trays with a stack of solo cups. There's usually none left at the end of the day. Some of my favorite add ins are Snyders nibblers (the garlic ones are perfect for this) Nagaraya garlic cracker nuts, White cheddar or hot and spicy Cheez Its, and Kirkland Praline Pecans or honey roasted peanuts if you want a little sweet, spicy and salty effect.
Sounds amazing! My Mom's sounds similar in that she makes several different kinds then makes a master mix with all! OMG...We literally got our own gallon bags at Christmas and YOU better not touch anyone's! Lol!
@@carolberres5528 You are correct, I should have caught that when I was typing it. If you want to omit the bag you can just use the turkey pans. Put one on top, clip the edges with a paper binder clip and gently roll to coat. The bags I use are essentially 5 gallon bucket liners, left over from a restaurant that went under, I have thousands of them, they are my garbage bags. If you have those they are food safe, you can get them in bulk at any restaurant supply or in smaller quantities (though at 3x the cost) on amazon. They are essential to have around if you do any sort of large meal prep.
I use popcorn tins to give away as gifts And my trillion grands Return the can of size thy want for Christmas any size I say. Thanks and merry Christmas and best new year ever to all of you .
My three keys to great Chex Mix are: I use my big, deep roasting pan. You have to get the seasonings on every piece, so you need lots of room. Second, I ALWAYS use GARLIC bagel chips. Third, I let the mix cool on layers of paper towel. This helps with crunchiness. Merry Christmas!
I make this all year round to sell at a farmers market, I make mine in a turkey foil roaster pan and it’s FULL, I use a box of Crispix, a box of all 3 chex mix, Rice Krispies, cherries, life cereal, cheddar cheese roll gold pretzels, and sometime goldfish crackers. My seasoning is: 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce, about 1-2 tsp. Tabasco sauce, a tsp. Of each: celery salt, onion salt and garlic salt, 2 sticks of butter. I put all this in a saucepan until butter is melted and stirring constantly until starts to boil. Spoon over mixture, using a large spoon, a little at a time and stir after each addition until all seasoning and butter is mixed in. Bake in a 325 degree preheated oven for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Add a can of peanuts before the last 15 minutes and stir. After the 4th 15 min, remove from oven and stir, let cool overnight on counter. Bag up in the morning, seasonings will be better once cooled. If you like it spicier, add double seasonings and bake as above.
This is exactly how I make my chex mix, except I use cashews and I usually add a bag of some type of chex mix or a snack mix that has the rye toast and pretzels a few cheese doodles etc. But the sauce is exactly what I use. I love the butter and whostershire sauce and garlic. Awww, my mouth is watering!! I actually do have a huge cookie sheet and I use it a lot. Might want to invest in one but I bake a lot of cookies especially during the holidays to share with my family and friends.
I also use a large black and white speckled roasting pan to make mixing easier. Also double the sauce mix and make it in a 4 cup glass measuring cup, easy to melt butter in micro and mix in your spices with a small whisk. Lawrey garlic salt is a must, also onion powder. Have been making this over 40 years!
I make it in an 18 qt electric roaster pan. Tried cooking it once in the electric roaster but it didn't work well so I just take the pan out of the roaster, fill it with the chex mix, stir and slide it in the oven
I’ll always think of Chex mix as a Christmas food. We only had it at Christmas time, warm out of the oven. I think there were even commercials and magazine ads for it at Christmas time.
I grew up calling it Party Mix. We use a family recipe from the the 60s. We use different recipe using vegetable oil, Worcestershire sauce, seasoned salt, garlic salt and boat loads more of cereal, pretzels, and mixed nuts. It makes a huge amount. We have always used a big roasting pan with a lid. You bake it for 2 hours stirring every 30 minutes. You leave the lid off while baking and put it on and shake vs stir (Bond style)!
I used this recipe for Thanksgiving but I added 2 teaspoons of Onion Powder, 1 1/2 cups of Pretzel Twists, 1 1/2 cups of Gold Fish, 1 Teaspoon of Cayenne Pepper, 1 teaspoon of Liquid Smoke and a 3 to 5 shakes of Tabasco Sauce. Turned out AWESOME!!!!! This was my very first time making Chex mix and was very pleased with the outcome.
Yes, I use a large Turkey roasting pan but not a disposal aluminum one. It is not only deep but the cooking area is larger as well. It’s easy to toss the hot cereal without it falling overboard
Great video, One of our favorite snacks as well. My life changed when I got a huge stainless steel bowl. Mix it in the bowl and bake in the same bowl. No escapees burning on the oven bottom! We use chex mix to clear out the small parts of snacks left in the pantry. Most anything you eat with soda or beer works well. Even saltine crackers are very usable if you add them last. (they will soak up more than their share if put in early)
I make this from time to time, we love it!! I use a big stainless steel bowl to mix it, and put the bowl right into the oven.. Easy to mix every time, and no mess..
This sounds good. We use Goldfish Crackers instead if Cheeze Its and, as everyone is saying, also make it in one of those black speckled roasting pans.
This is my mother's recipe. Half box of wheat ,rice ,corn, cherries 2lbs nuts stick pretzels. 2 cups oil, 1 tbsp loury season salt, 2 tbsp worstershire sauce, 3/4 tbsp garlic salt. I use a large roaster. Bake for 2 hours stir every 15 min. I have made this for 65 yrs. Every one's favorite.Be sure when pour on oil to stir after you have poured half on. Stir oil also as you pour it on. Delicious.
Make this twice a year, Christmas & July for vacation. I put anything in that looks interesting, as long as it's not sugar coated. Cereals, mixed nuts, pretzel sticks, gold fish, bagel chips, Cheetos , potato sticks etc. I use oil instead of butter, other ingredients the same. Yummy, we love it , been making it for years & years .
I make DOUBLE the recipe in a large roasting pan. I follow the original recipe and melt the butter in the roaster. I measure the ingredients into the top of the roaster because it is so big, it holds everything very well. Then, I add the spices, the Worcestershire sauce into the melted butter then add the dry ingredients and MIX. Same as you, I stir them every 15 minutes 4 times. OH SO YUMMY!
Great video! I use a 13 quart stainless steel mixing bowl to mix and bake in. Mix everything in the bowl and put it in the oven. Then when I take it out of the oven to cool, I stir every 15 minutes for another hour. Of course, you can take some out to cool on a plate for immediate needs. 😁 I think the chewiness is because of the water in the butter and the Worcestershire sauce. The final cooling step allows that to evaporate to make it crisp again. If it’s still chewy, you just need to bake it longer. I usually do 80 minutes of baking, stirring every 20 minutes. Worcestershire isn’t pronounced anything like it looks (from the original British English anyway). Start by thinking ‘rooster’ … then make that ‘roostah’ … then ‘woostah’ … then add the ‘sher’ … woo-stah-sher. 😁 I also like Trisha Yearwood’s saying from her father… whas-dis-here sauce (what’s-this-here)
Two grandsons (11 and 9) and I just made this using this recipe. They had lots of fun helping and all six of the grand kids as well as MeMe and I cannot keep our hands out of the bowl. Very good and easy to make treat. Thanks for sharing. We used a large metal bowl to mix and then baked them on two large rimmed cookie sheets, and attempted to make it a single layer. Certainly will use this recipe again. Two thumbs up!!
As a kid the wheat chex were not my favorite. Now I prefer them over the others. My Mom used her roasting pan like others have mentioned. I'll be making this tomorrow.
Love that you posted this! I agree the store bought mix doesn't even come close to homemade. My mother used to make this for us grown kids for Christmas, and her mother made it for us growing up. They called it Texas Trash. I never got their recipes; all I knew was butter and Worchester Sauce. Mom would put cashews and when she could find them the little garlic bagel chip rounds, if she couldn't find them she's would sometimes break up the larger chips. Every once in a while she'd put pecan pieces if she had pecans left over from another pecan snack she made that was my grandfather's recipe.
I make a snack mix with Bugles, oyster crackers and Melba toast instead of Chex cereal. It’s spicy and zesty. Always a hit when I take it to gatherings.
I always have pecans and cashews in house and add those to my chex mix. I also use onion powder to my mix but lessen the worcestershire from that recipe even when I double the sauce(not a fan of that flavor). I use a roasting pan(big oval pans) when I mix and bake. I also add cheese popcorn seasoning after I mix the sauce in. Family love it like that.
Really enjoyed your video. Inspired us to try making our own too. Should you decide one day to share your own recipe with us I'll definitely be taking notes. As good as this recipe looks,for your daughter to prefer yours it must be pretty darn good. Thanks for sharing it . 😊
I use a big antique speckled turkey roaster that my Mom used to cook a turkey in. I’ve also used a big Corning Ware oval baker that’s at least 4 - 5 inches deep.
I always use a big roasting pan and have just enough room. Might give this recipe a try, but I like lots of different snackies like bagel chips, pita chips, etc.. Thanks for giving this one a try.
I have a tip on pronouncing “Worcestershire”. First syllable is Worce (like force) then it’s easy after that. Worce-ster-shire (sheer OR shire, either one. Pick one and stick to it). Three syllables. You’re welcome!! And your Chex mix looks delish. Thank you!
I’ve tried numerous variations of Chex mix over the years and my family’s favorite is still the traditional. I make it in batches that use the whole box of Chex. Chex mix for every vacation and family get together!
Chex mix has been a family tradition for over 40 years. It is an all family affair. We make the basic and customize each family member. I double the ingredients and add pecans. Always use only Costco brand fancy nuts, so much additions. We even made a special batch for one that has severe allergies, gluten included. We even made our own Worcestershire sauce because she cant have the regular. We have become experts after 40 years! We don't bake I have the original microwave recipe. Literally, we make at least 40 lbs. A big hint - use turkey bags to pour ingredients into and add sauce and toss. Everything gets coated.
Great video....thanks! Ever tried dumping all the dry ingredients in a small trash bag then pouring the liquid into that. You can shake it up and mush it around, pour it into the baking dish (half at a time if necessary even double the recipe) then just throw the messy bag away. Works great.
I like to bake the Chex mix and give it away at the holiday. I put the Chex mix and snack size Ziploc bags. People seem to like it, and I do too. I might try adding the cheese nips to it.
I’ve made Chex Mix for years at Christmastime and I always use my Dutch oven to bake it. It’s easier to stir. Then dry it on a cookie sheet or two or three when it’s done baking.
Thank you. It looks delicious. The chopped garlic sounds awesome! I'll definitely add that when I make it, I'm sure the onion powder sure would help also. Going to make this for Christmas. Everyone will be coming over. I just want to make sure I have everything. Looks like I just need the cereal, other box items.
I use my Mama’s hand written recipe from the 1950’s and it is called “Nuts & Bolts”! Basically the same recipe as on the box, but we always added onion powder and doubled the seasoning ingredients plus mixed nuts. Sure would like to try your recipe! Merry Christmas❣️🎅🏻🎄
I purchase a gallon of Lea and Perrins Worchester sauce per year and use it throughout the year. But, mostly used when I ultra soak (with lots of butter and lots of garlic and onion powders/Lawry salt in a primordial soup to flood the chex mix with). My chex mix turns out mostly BLACK after many stirs at 20 minute intervals at lower heat for about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. People beg me for a bag every holiday. I bag it and label it "ELF Nutrition". Use a turkey baster to apply MASS flavoring. I only add honey roasted cashews and dry roasted pistachios at the end of the LOOONG bake/drying cycle that do not have chex mix coating specifically added to them
I also add potato strings, bugles, Fritos and gold fish. Next time I’ll try the cheese-it’s instead of gold fish. I also use the disposable aluminum pans. I’ve had the same ones for years. My friends call it crack mix because it’s so addicting!
Chex Mix was known as “Nuts & Bolts” when I was growing up because it called for stick pretzels. No cheese crackers. That’s still the best version for me.
We also called it Nuts and Bolts. It was a Spice Islands recipe that has Beau Monde seasoning, marjoram, onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne, and Hickory Smoke salt. I made it last year in double batches! The best and nostalgic.
Don’t use a cookie sheet at all! I use a large roasting pan when I make it. Like you’d cook a Turkey in. You can even buy a disposable one if you don’t have one. The mix can be spread out and very easy to turn without spilling.
This is a really good variation. I've long been tinkering with variations on Chex Mix recipes and this one is almost the same as what I came up with. Peanuts instead of mixed nuts, pretzels, Cheezits, Cheerios. All the same. I do cut down some on Worcestershire sauce which can overpower it. Only real difference is I don't use Wheat Chex, which don't come out quite right, and I add a cup of raisins in the last 15 minutes (the full hour makes them bloat up).
I make chex mix all the time. If you don't have a pan large enough, I divide it between 2 aluminum pans (the same aluminum pan as he shows) after mixing . They both fit perfectly in your oven. Won't spill in your oven when mixing.
I do mine in two huge foil deep pans. I double the sauce, use Honey Nut Cheerios, and garlic bagel chips broke up. Everything else is the same. It’s wonderful!!
I use a large enamel turkey roasting pan to mix and cook the chex mix. You know, one of those speckled heavy metal pans. Its big enough to stir and mix, and heavy enough for even cooking. Please get one. Works brilliant!
With the wheat chex....melt a stick of butter in a skillet and pour the chex in it, stir to coat really good and heat through, the sprinkle in some sugar, stir and taste, add however much sugar you want, as sweet as you like it. Pour into a bowl or plate and enjoy 😉
I used to make it do often!! I still know the recipe by heart. 😅 I had the same problem regarding the pan! Next time toss is a large freezer bag, then put on the cookie sheet and keeping turning the Chex mix while in the oven.
I love Chex mix, or Bits & Bites as we call it up here in Canada. I'm going to try making this before the weekend providing I can get the ingredients which may be difficult. Since Covid happened, General Mills has stopped shipping their products to Canada. By the way, the sauce is pronounced "Woos-ter-sheer". Thanks and all the best for the new year.
Yep I want your recipe! Sounds way better. I had a great Chex mix at Christmas. Had bugles chips. Yum! I’d skip the wheat Chex and Cheerios. And do the Chex mixes, cheese it’s. Nuts and bugles.
I would use a 2.5 gallon ziplock bag and mix everything in there with the flavoring mix. Then just mush the bag around many times. Probably get a better coating. I’m not a fan of w sauce so I am still looking for a different topping. I think old bay seasoning with butter etc would be good.
I just open my snack drawer and use whatever fritos, cheetos, pork rinds, that are left. extra nuts always, Try for about 10 cups of cereal/extras plus nuts of choice. use aluminum turkey roasting pan . no mess.
If you like Cheez-it’s in your party mix (a must for us), you probably would also like Cheetos (another must for us). Tabasco adds a great flavor. We also use a large potion of fancy mixed nuts for our Christmas party mix!
Let me drop something on you that may may have been considered before…. I made some becuase my sister made some for Christmas and it was pretty good I’ve made it a few times and I was just here eating some that I made around three days ago and it tastes better, has more flavor … as if it developed .. I recommend trying to age it a few days in a freezer back and your patience will be 100% rewarded
I usually use a foil lasagna or roaster pan. I make it gluten free. Corn, rice, and honey Chex, gf pretzels, nuts. Mom made it every year with I Can’t Believe it’s not Butter. I tried butter the first year I made it and nobody liked it. 😆 back to mom’s recipe. Like Dave I also make extra sauce. It just wouldn’t be the holidays w/o Chex mix. ❤
You can save a step on chex mix by adding crispix cereal. It's rice on one side, corn on the other for each piece of cereal and it's like a little pillow that holds in all the goodies.
A great dish to cook the mix in is the large black with white speckles metal roasting pan with a dome lid. You bake it with lid off, but when it is time to stir or mix it, put the lid on and shake it. A lot easier than stirring a full pan or using two baking sheets.
My batch uses way more of the dry ingredients, so my assessment of the recipe is that it uses too much fat and salt, and I use fresh garlic. Everybody loves the recipe I use, which was my mother’s, and those are the things they like compared to other mix: not as oily or salty.
Using a 9x13 metal cake pan, a flat spatula and paprika instead of seasoning salt is my go to method. The flat spatula allows for lifting and sifting the cereal without crushing it! To make a sweet and salty version I use honey roasted peanuts! Have never used cheez-it crackers but do enjoy them as a stand alone snack.
I too omit the wheat Chex and rice is my favorite. Evidently you didn’t have the necessary half sheet pan. I have never liked a deep dish because the shallower the better able to have that roasted and crunchier effect. I wish I had some right now and bacon grease in lieu of butter is essential.
Substitute the Cheerios with Cap'n Crunch... I even have jalapenos and garlic in mine as well... It depends on the pretzels as well...I've had ones that are overly sweet and/or overly sour... The trick is finding the right pretzel...
Great recipe that I cook every Christmas. The one change I make is to use Honey Nut Cheerios. It is the sweet with the salty and I love it! Also try parchment paper next time. All that yummy stuff on the bottom will stick to the cereal and not the pan. Parchment paper is awesome!
My recipe comes from my mom who was making it in the 1950’s. She called it “Tiny Snacks”. It had everything you have but no Cheese It probably they were not around.
I LOVE the name “tiny snacks”-I’m gonna start calling it that. Btw, Cheezits have been sold in stores for over 100 years now. (I actually learned this fact yesterday. Lol. And was really surprised to find it out). When I told my mom that, she said she remembered them being kind of a seasonal item, so it sounds like they weren’t always readily available like they are now.
I use a turkey roaster to make this! I use honey version of Chex, cheerios and Shreddies. I add peanuts and cashews, cheese its, and pretzels. A great sauce with oil, celery salt, onion and garlic powder, seasoning salt, Tabasco, chillie sauce, cayenne, worsteshire, oil. You can’t get Shreddies in the US…too bad. Anyone who eats my version is addicted instantly!
I make the original recipe, double spices, leave out wheat chex, use cheese it's, colored goldfish and walnut halves. Use a deep aluminum turkey roasting pan. Throw it away afterwards. Always great.
I make so much of this stuff. I literally use a whole box of each chex. To mix it I assemble it all in a new -garbage bag- large food safe bag like a bucket liner, pour in the butter mix and tumble the bag to coat everything. Then I dump it into two disposable turkey sized deep roaster trays. I start the second tray after 30 minutes. When the first one is done I dump it out on a parchment lined counter. I season with a blend of Mrs. Butter, fine ground black pepper and powdered jalapeno and leave it to cool for 30 min then it goes back into the tray and the second tray goes onto the counter... The day we have people over we just put out the trays with a stack of solo cups. There's usually none left at the end of the day. Some of my favorite add ins are Snyders nibblers (the garlic ones are perfect for this) Nagaraya garlic cracker nuts, White cheddar or hot and spicy Cheez Its, and Kirkland Praline Pecans or honey roasted peanuts if you want a little sweet, spicy and salty effect.
Wow!
Sounds amazing! My Mom's sounds similar in that she makes several different kinds then makes a master mix with all! OMG...We literally got our own gallon bags at Christmas and YOU better not touch anyone's! Lol!
Garbage bags are not food safe
@@carolberres5528 You are correct, I should have caught that when I was typing it. If you want to omit the bag you can just use the turkey pans. Put one on top, clip the edges with a paper binder clip and gently roll to coat. The bags I use are essentially 5 gallon bucket liners, left over from a restaurant that went under, I have thousands of them, they are my garbage bags. If you have those they are food safe, you can get them in bulk at any restaurant supply or in smaller quantities (though at 3x the cost) on amazon. They are essential to have around if you do any sort of large meal prep.
I use popcorn tins to give away as gifts
And my trillion grands
Return the can of size thy want for Christmas any size I say.
Thanks and merry Christmas and best new year ever to all of you .
My three keys to great Chex Mix are: I use my big, deep roasting pan. You have to get the seasonings on every piece, so you need lots of room. Second, I ALWAYS use GARLIC bagel chips. Third, I let the mix cool on layers of paper towel. This helps with crunchiness. Merry Christmas!
Yes to the garlic chips.
Great tips
Anybody else make huge batches and freeze it? I’m amazed with how fresh tasting it is out of the freezer. I thought it would be soggy but it isn’t.
I make this all year round to sell at a farmers market, I make mine in a turkey foil roaster pan and it’s FULL, I use a box of Crispix, a box of all 3 chex mix, Rice Krispies, cherries, life cereal, cheddar cheese roll gold pretzels, and sometime goldfish crackers. My seasoning is: 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce, about 1-2 tsp. Tabasco sauce, a tsp. Of each: celery salt, onion salt and garlic salt, 2 sticks of butter. I put all this in a saucepan until butter is melted and stirring constantly until starts to boil. Spoon over mixture, using a large spoon, a little at a time and stir after each addition until all seasoning and butter is mixed in. Bake in a 325 degree preheated oven for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Add a can of peanuts before the last 15 minutes and stir. After the 4th 15 min, remove from oven and stir, let cool overnight on counter. Bag up in the morning, seasonings will be better once cooled. If you like it spicier, add double seasonings and bake as above.
This is exactly how I make my chex mix, except I use cashews and I usually add a bag of some type of chex mix or a snack mix that has the rye toast and pretzels a few cheese doodles etc. But the sauce is exactly what I use. I love the butter and whostershire sauce and garlic. Awww, my mouth is watering!! I actually do have a huge cookie sheet and I use it a lot. Might want to invest in
one but I bake a lot of cookies especially during the holidays to share with my family and friends.
I also use a large black and white speckled roasting pan to make mixing easier. Also double the sauce mix and make it in a 4 cup glass measuring cup, easy to melt butter in micro and mix in your spices with a small whisk. Lawrey garlic salt is a must, also onion powder. Have been making this over 40 years!
I make it in an 18 qt electric roaster pan. Tried cooking it once in the electric roaster but it didn't work well so I just take the pan out of the roaster, fill it with the chex mix, stir and slide it in the oven
I use the roasting pan with the lid too! 😊
Dave, Would you please post the recipe u normally do? The additional spices sound delish!!!
We loved when you stuck your fist into the chex box instead of shaking them out. You are the best!
I’ll always think of Chex mix as a Christmas food. We only had it at Christmas time, warm out of the oven. I think there were even commercials and magazine ads for it at Christmas time.
I grew up calling it Party Mix. We use a family recipe from the the 60s. We use different recipe using vegetable oil, Worcestershire sauce, seasoned salt, garlic salt and boat loads more of cereal, pretzels, and mixed nuts. It makes a huge amount. We have always used a big roasting pan with a lid. You bake it for 2 hours stirring every 30 minutes. You leave the lid off while baking and put it on and shake vs stir (Bond style)!
My mom always used a roasting pan with lid too. My has passed and never found her recipe. She also did use all season.
I used this recipe for Thanksgiving but I added 2 teaspoons of Onion Powder, 1 1/2 cups of Pretzel Twists, 1 1/2 cups of Gold Fish, 1 Teaspoon of Cayenne Pepper, 1 teaspoon of Liquid Smoke and a 3 to 5 shakes of Tabasco Sauce. Turned out AWESOME!!!!! This was my very first time making Chex mix and was very pleased with the outcome.
I buy the large aluminum turkey roasters to do double batches, works great while you are mixing them between bakes!
Thanks for the tip!
I use a turkey roasting pan, not aluminum. Why throw it away. I use all those ingredients plus I also use some homemade hot sauce. It’s amazing.
Yes, I use a large Turkey roasting pan but not a disposal aluminum one. It is not only deep but the cooking area is larger as well. It’s easy to toss the hot cereal without it falling overboard
Great Idea, thank you.
Roasting pan ❤❤❤❤❤
Great video, One of our favorite snacks as well. My life changed when I got a huge stainless steel bowl. Mix it in the bowl and bake in the same bowl. No escapees burning on the oven bottom! We use chex mix to clear out the small parts of snacks left in the pantry. Most anything you eat with soda or beer works well. Even saltine crackers are very usable if you add them last. (they will soak up more than their share if put in early)
I make this from time to time, we love it!! I use a big stainless steel bowl to mix it, and put the bowl right into the oven.. Easy to mix every time, and no mess..
This sounds good. We use Goldfish Crackers instead if Cheeze Its and, as everyone is saying, also make it in one of those black speckled roasting pans.
Roasting pan. Worked GREAT. Super deep with plenty of room for tossing. ❤️
Would love to have YOUR recipe for the Chex mix you make. Sounds good with all the extra spices.
This is my mother's recipe. Half box of wheat ,rice ,corn, cherries 2lbs nuts stick pretzels. 2 cups oil, 1 tbsp loury season salt, 2 tbsp worstershire sauce, 3/4 tbsp garlic salt. I use a large roaster. Bake for 2 hours stir every 15 min. I have made this for 65 yrs. Every one's favorite.Be sure when pour on oil to stir after you have poured half on. Stir oil also as you pour it on. Delicious.
@@camillamiller1468 Cherries?
@@libbyworkman3459 cheerios is my guess
Please share your other recipe. I’m excited to try it!
Make this twice a year, Christmas & July for vacation. I put anything in that looks interesting, as long as it's not sugar coated. Cereals, mixed nuts, pretzel sticks, gold fish, bagel chips, Cheetos , potato sticks etc. I use oil instead of butter, other ingredients the same. Yummy, we love it , been making it for years & years .
I make DOUBLE the recipe in a large roasting pan. I follow the original recipe and melt the butter in the roaster. I measure the ingredients into the top of the roaster because it is so big, it holds everything very well. Then, I add the spices, the Worcestershire sauce into the melted butter then add the dry ingredients and MIX. Same as you, I stir them every 15 minutes 4 times. OH SO YUMMY!
Great video! I use a 13 quart stainless steel mixing bowl to mix and bake in. Mix everything in the bowl and put it in the oven. Then when I take it out of the oven to cool, I stir every 15 minutes for another hour. Of course, you can take some out to cool on a plate for immediate needs. 😁
I think the chewiness is because of the water in the butter and the Worcestershire sauce. The final cooling step allows that to evaporate to make it crisp again. If it’s still chewy, you just need to bake it longer. I usually do 80 minutes of baking, stirring every 20 minutes.
Worcestershire isn’t pronounced anything like it looks (from the original British English anyway). Start by thinking ‘rooster’ … then make that ‘roostah’ … then ‘woostah’ … then add the ‘sher’ … woo-stah-sher. 😁 I also like Trisha Yearwood’s saying from her father… whas-dis-here sauce (what’s-this-here)
The recipe i use is so old that it's called "Patio Mix". It was a summer snack on the patio. Love this stuff!!!
Two grandsons (11 and 9) and I just made this using this recipe. They had lots of fun helping and all six of the grand kids as well as MeMe and I cannot keep our hands out of the bowl. Very good and easy to make treat. Thanks for sharing.
We used a large metal bowl to mix and then baked them on two large rimmed cookie sheets, and attempted to make it a single layer. Certainly will use this recipe again. Two thumbs up!!
As a kid the wheat chex were not my favorite. Now I prefer them over the others. My Mom used her roasting pan like others have mentioned. I'll be making this tomorrow.
Love that you posted this! I agree the store bought mix doesn't even come close to homemade. My mother used to make this for us grown kids for Christmas, and her mother made it for us growing up. They called it Texas Trash. I never got their recipes; all I knew was butter and Worchester Sauce. Mom would put cashews and when she could find them the little garlic bagel chip rounds, if she couldn't find them she's would sometimes break up the larger chips. Every once in a while she'd put pecan pieces if she had pecans left over from another pecan snack she made that was my grandfather's recipe.
I make a snack mix with Bugles, oyster crackers and Melba toast instead of Chex cereal. It’s spicy and zesty. Always a hit when I take it to gatherings.
I wish we could still get Bugles in Canada! Old-time Chex mix had Bugles.
I always have pecans and cashews in house and add those to my chex mix. I also use onion powder to my mix but lessen the worcestershire from that recipe even when I double the sauce(not a fan of that flavor). I use a roasting pan(big oval pans) when I mix and bake. I also add cheese popcorn seasoning after I mix the sauce in. Family love it like that.
Sounds great!
Really enjoyed your video. Inspired us to try making our own too. Should you decide one day to share your own recipe with us I'll definitely be taking notes. As good as this recipe looks,for your daughter to prefer yours it must be pretty darn good. Thanks for sharing it . 😊
I use a big antique speckled turkey roaster that my Mom used to cook a turkey in. I’ve also used a big Corning Ware oval baker that’s at least 4 - 5 inches deep.
This!
Yes! I learn to make it in a roaster
I always use a big roasting pan and have just enough room. Might give this recipe a try, but I like lots of different snackies like bagel chips, pita chips, etc.. Thanks for giving this one a try.
I have a tip on pronouncing “Worcestershire”. First syllable is Worce (like force) then it’s easy after that. Worce-ster-shire (sheer OR shire, either one. Pick one and stick to it). Three syllables. You’re welcome!! And your Chex mix looks delish. Thank you!
LOL I thought that every time!! Just figured out how to comment - so I'm not that smart😂😂
I call it W sauce.
Wash your sister sauce! LOL. whats this here sauce
I’ve tried numerous variations of Chex mix over the years and my family’s favorite is still the traditional. I make it in batches that use the whole box of Chex. Chex mix for every vacation and family get together!
We use the dark blue with white speckles to bake the mix. High enough sides to stay in when stirring. A disposable aluminum pan will work too
Chex mix has been a family tradition for over 40 years. It is an all family affair. We make the basic and customize each family member. I double the ingredients and add pecans. Always use only Costco brand fancy nuts, so much additions. We even made a special batch for one that has severe allergies, gluten included. We even made our own Worcestershire sauce because she cant have the regular. We have become experts after 40 years! We don't bake I have the original microwave recipe. Literally, we make at least 40 lbs. A big hint - use turkey bags to pour ingredients into and add sauce and toss. Everything gets coated.
Great video....thanks! Ever tried dumping all the dry ingredients in a small trash bag then pouring the liquid into that. You can shake it up and mush it around, pour it into the baking dish (half at a time if necessary even double the recipe) then just throw the messy bag away. Works great.
I like to bake the Chex mix and give it away at the holiday. I put the Chex mix and snack size Ziploc bags. People seem to like it, and I do too. I might try adding the cheese nips to it.
I’ve made Chex Mix for years at Christmastime and I always use my Dutch oven to bake it. It’s easier to stir. Then dry it on a cookie sheet or two or three when it’s done baking.
Thank you. It looks delicious. The chopped garlic sounds awesome! I'll definitely add that when I make it, I'm sure the onion powder sure would help also. Going to make this for Christmas. Everyone will be coming over. I just want to make sure I have everything. Looks like I just need the cereal, other box items.
I use my Mama’s hand written recipe from the 1950’s and it is called “Nuts & Bolts”! Basically the same recipe as on the box, but we always added onion powder and doubled the seasoning ingredients plus mixed nuts. Sure would like to try your recipe! Merry Christmas❣️🎅🏻🎄
I purchase a gallon of Lea and Perrins Worchester sauce per year and use it throughout the year. But, mostly used when I ultra soak (with lots of butter and lots of garlic and onion powders/Lawry salt in a primordial soup to flood the chex mix with). My chex mix turns out mostly BLACK after many stirs at 20 minute intervals at lower heat for about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. People beg me for a bag every holiday. I bag it and label it "ELF Nutrition". Use a turkey baster to apply MASS flavoring. I only add honey roasted cashews and dry roasted pistachios at the end of the LOOONG bake/drying cycle that do not have chex mix coating specifically added to them
I also add potato strings, bugles, Fritos and gold fish. Next time I’ll try the cheese-it’s instead of gold fish. I also use the disposable aluminum pans. I’ve had the same ones for years. My friends call it crack mix because it’s so addicting!
I like your suggestion.
Can you share the recipe?
Have you ever made Christmas crack? It's delicious!
I would also add sesame sticks.
The recipe I’ve seen calls for oil instead of butter. This recipe is definitely superior for that reason alone.
Yea oil would be gross
Chex Mix was known as “Nuts & Bolts” when I was growing up because it called for stick pretzels. No cheese crackers. That’s still the best version for me.
We also called it Nuts and Bolts. It was a Spice Islands recipe that has Beau Monde seasoning, marjoram, onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne, and Hickory Smoke salt. I made it last year in double batches! The best and nostalgic.
Good job Dave. Keep your cooking videos coming our way.
Can you please list the recipe your family likes the best with the garlic and onion powder? Do you have a video on that you can refer me to?
We also use the speckled turkey roaster and it makes the best Chex mix…another addition would be some onion powder.
Don’t use a cookie sheet at all! I use a large roasting pan when I make it. Like you’d cook a Turkey in. You can even buy a disposable one if you don’t have one. The mix can be spread out and very easy to turn without spilling.
This is a really good variation.
I've long been tinkering with variations on Chex Mix recipes and this one is almost the same as what I came up with. Peanuts instead of mixed nuts, pretzels, Cheezits, Cheerios. All the same. I do cut down some on Worcestershire sauce which can overpower it. Only real difference is I don't use Wheat Chex, which don't come out quite right, and I add a cup of raisins in the last 15 minutes (the full hour makes them bloat up).
You need a big bowl to mix it up in! I have a huge stainless steel bowl I mix it up in and then pour it on a big cookie sheet or two to bake.
I make chex mix all the time. If you don't have a pan large enough, I divide it between 2 aluminum pans (the same aluminum pan as he shows) after mixing . They both fit perfectly in your oven. Won't spill in your oven when mixing.
I do mine in two huge foil deep pans. I double the sauce, use Honey Nut Cheerios, and garlic bagel chips broke up. Everything else is the same. It’s wonderful!!
One hint on the mixing the ingredients,dump it in a large mixing bowl a huge one if you have one!
You can coat the ingredients much more effectively
I use a large enamel turkey roasting pan to mix and cook the chex mix. You know, one of those speckled heavy metal pans. Its big enough to stir and mix, and heavy enough for even cooking. Please get one. Works brilliant!
With the wheat chex....melt a stick of butter in a skillet and pour the chex in it, stir to coat really good and heat through, the sprinkle in some sugar, stir and taste, add however much sugar you want, as sweet as you like it. Pour into a bowl or plate and enjoy 😉
One of the best spices I found for recipes like this is Cavender's Greek seasoning.
People in the UK don't say the shire bit, we just say Wooster sauce
I used to make it do often!! I still know the recipe by heart. 😅 I had the same problem regarding the pan! Next time toss is a large freezer bag, then put on the cookie sheet and keeping turning the Chex mix while in the oven.
I use a big tub and I use butter, worceshire sauce and taco seasoning. All the ingredients you have there. So good
I use large aluminum pans (the disposable type) fro this. A huge amount is always made and it feeds tons
I love Chex mix, or Bits & Bites as we call it up here in Canada. I'm going to try making this before the weekend providing I can get the ingredients which may be difficult. Since Covid happened, General Mills has stopped shipping their products to Canada. By the way, the sauce is pronounced "Woos-ter-sheer". Thanks and all the best for the new year.
Yep I want your recipe! Sounds way better. I had a great Chex mix at Christmas. Had bugles chips. Yum! I’d skip the wheat Chex and Cheerios. And do the Chex mixes, cheese it’s. Nuts and bugles.
I would use a 2.5 gallon ziplock bag and mix everything in there with the flavoring mix. Then just mush the bag around many times. Probably get a better coating. I’m not a fan of w sauce so I am still looking for a different topping. I think old bay seasoning with butter etc would be good.
I just open my snack drawer and use whatever fritos, cheetos, pork rinds, that are left. extra nuts always, Try for about 10 cups of cereal/extras plus nuts of choice. use aluminum turkey roasting pan . no mess.
If you like Cheez-it’s in your party mix (a must for us), you probably would also like Cheetos (another must for us). Tabasco adds a great flavor. We also use a large potion of fancy mixed nuts for our Christmas party mix!
Oooh! Cheetos! Perfect add-in! Since I like spicy I also love the Tabasco idea-and I’d add in those chili rice crackers.
I use honey nut chex. Adds the sweet with the salty!
I mix all the ingredients in a large bowl and then pour it into a deep casarole dish. Makes it so much easier.😊.
Let me drop something on you that may may have been considered before…. I made some becuase my sister made some for Christmas and it was pretty good I’ve made it a few times and I was just here eating some that I made around three days ago and it tastes better, has more flavor … as if it developed .. I recommend trying to age it a few days in a freezer back and your patience will be 100% rewarded
Use a large mixing bowl to make and combine the mixture, then split to two large cookie sheets, rotating oven racks half way through.
I add a teaspoon or so of Cayenne pepper, I just like everything with a little zip!
That sounds great! I was wondering if Smoked Paprika would be good too?
Would love to try your recipe. Where can we find it?
I use the great value stick pretzels. The best. Onion powder, more garlic more than called for. Little seasoned salt. More butter than called for.
Good to know re pretzels. Crispy when they are thinner. I agree re onion powder
I usually use a foil lasagna or roaster pan. I make it gluten free. Corn, rice, and honey Chex, gf pretzels, nuts. Mom made it every year with I Can’t Believe it’s not Butter. I tried butter the first year I made it and nobody liked it. 😆 back to mom’s recipe. Like Dave I also make extra sauce. It just wouldn’t be the holidays w/o Chex mix. ❤
may sound weird... but i'm loving on the paint color of your cabinets lol what is it?
You can save a step on chex mix by adding crispix cereal. It's rice on one side, corn on the other for each piece of cereal and it's like a little pillow that holds in all the goodies.
I use Crispix cereal which is rice and corn. Your adaptations sound tasty.
A great dish to cook the mix in is the large black with white speckles metal roasting pan with a dome lid. You bake it with lid off, but when it is time to stir or mix it, put the lid on and shake it. A lot easier than stirring a full pan or using two baking sheets.
My batch uses way more of the dry ingredients, so my assessment of the recipe is that it uses too much fat and salt, and I use fresh garlic. Everybody loves the recipe I use, which was my mother’s, and those are the things they like compared to other mix: not as oily or salty.
Try it with club cracker sticks and nacho cheese bugles awesome next level
I’m just starting the video and I love ya, Dave, love Chex Mix, but I think you needed a bigger set of tongs! 😉😂 Holey moley!!
Using a 9x13 metal cake pan, a flat spatula and paprika instead of seasoning salt is my go to method. The flat spatula allows for lifting and sifting the cereal without crushing it!
To make a sweet and salty version I use honey roasted peanuts! Have never used cheez-it crackers but do enjoy them as a stand alone snack.
Thank you very much is good. God bless 🙏🙏🙏
I think wasabi peas would be a great addition to this recipe.
I make my chex mix in an electric roaster. Lots of room to spread out and stir. And i pretty much double seasoning ingredients too.
Love your video! thank you.
I too omit the wheat Chex and rice is my favorite. Evidently you didn’t have the necessary half sheet pan. I have never liked a deep dish because the shallower the better able to have that roasted and crunchier effect. I wish I had some right now and bacon grease in lieu of butter is essential.
I use some bacon grease, but mostly butter. And I love the wheat chex. My favorite of the chex.
Substitute the Cheerios with Cap'n Crunch... I even have jalapenos and garlic in mine as well...
It depends on the pretzels as well...I've had ones that are overly sweet and/or overly sour... The trick is finding the right pretzel...
Have you used the pretzel knots?
Nacho cheese Bugles are a good addition
Great recipe that I cook every Christmas. The one change I make is to use Honey Nut Cheerios. It is the sweet with the salty and I love it! Also try parchment paper next time. All that yummy stuff on the bottom will stick to the cereal and not the pan. Parchment paper is awesome!
That’s a good idea. I never thought of that.
Sounds great!
I add Honeycomb cereal. It is so good….salty and sweet. I started doing this after watching an Amish woman making chex mix for her family.
Honeynut!! Thanks, great idea😸
I always use the bottom of my big turkey roaster to bake my Chex Mix. Sometimes I even make a double batch in it and give some away to family.
Thank you !! Now I'm Hungry!!! lol
The way things go in my kitchen, I would have that chex mix all over the oven and floor. I have become such a klutz in my old age.
My recipe comes from my mom who was making it in the 1950’s. She called it “Tiny Snacks”. It had everything you have but no Cheese It probably they were not around.
I LOVE the name “tiny snacks”-I’m gonna start calling it that. Btw, Cheezits have been sold in stores for over 100 years now. (I actually learned this fact yesterday. Lol. And was really surprised to find it out). When I told my mom that, she said she remembered them being kind of a seasonal item, so it sounds like they weren’t always readily available like they are now.
I like the idea of the cheese nips.
Turkey roasting pan works very well. Sure like this recipe.
SUPER AMAZING
Cook on 2 cookie sheets after mixed up in large bowl.
I use a turkey roaster to make this! I use honey version of Chex, cheerios and Shreddies. I add peanuts and cashews, cheese its, and pretzels. A great sauce with oil, celery salt, onion and garlic powder, seasoning salt, Tabasco, chillie sauce, cayenne, worsteshire, oil. You can’t get Shreddies in the US…too bad. Anyone who eats my version is addicted instantly!
I use a huge roasting pan! Works great!
What mic do you use bro?! You sounds so crisp and clear. Also very fun video to watch and I loved your honest intro.
Rode wireless go 2 is my mic
I make the original recipe, double spices, leave out wheat chex, use cheese it's, colored goldfish and walnut halves. Use a deep aluminum turkey roasting pan. Throw it away afterwards. Always great.
Obviously you’ve never made it, or you’d know those pans were all way too small. I use a turkey roasting pan.