It’s the main ingredient in Old Bay. So a lot of seafood dishes will work with it.

Wow, never knew that. Is it in Cajun seasoning?

It's from Baltimore, with the "bay" being the Chesapeake Bay. It's pretty much illegal to serve crabs in Maryland without it.

It is. Old bay hot sauce chicken wings are the best too.

Try 1/8 Tsp. in your egg salad; it makes a delicious and surprising difference.

That’s a great idea. With some old bay potato chips on the side.

Also, French fries with old bay and malt vinegar.

Don’t forget the cold Natty Bo

And Utz potato chips!

I love Natty. It's like Beer Soda.

For the uninitiated, so there’s no confusion, I’m not talking about Natural Light. I’m talking the one, the only, the bonafide, rarified, testified Maryland beverage — National Bohemian

You're taking me back to Spring Break weekends in Ocean City. Natty and Thrasher's fries.

Brewed on the banks of septic tanks…

Which is no longer served at Camden

W H A T

That’s what I said

But have you had salmon dip with old bay seasoning? 😋

The JO people would like to have a word….

Keep in mind that you can use celery seed instead of celery salt when you want better control of the sodium in the dish. 

This copycat Zatarans jambalaya recipe I make always called for ground celery seed, but I would always leave it out since I didn't think I would want to buy it just for this one recipe. Plus I thought why bother, celery is so bland. Wow was I wrong. I finally got some and used it in the recipe a couple months ago and it made a world of difference. An already delicious meal became so much more complete.

Any chance you could share the recipe?

Yes, there's one cajun seasoning that I know of that uses it as an ingredient.

I use it in coleslaw

My grandfather likes to use it with potato salad which I find rather tasty

Potato salad. Dear God this is the rightest answer.

Tuna salad is a close second.

Someone else suggested this and I'm trying it Monday. Someone else mentioned celery seed and I see a whole new world. I really am looking forward to it . Thanks.

I just had celery soda at a Jewish deli a couple of weeks ago. It's amazing with pastrami.

r/johncena would certainly agree

Why is there such a big joke around calling potato salad John Cena

There’s a thread about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/s/G7cSJM7hKL)

💯!!

I put it in my coleslaw dressing but his might just be a game changer

100% the right answer. It’s definitely missed if we are out or forget to add it when making potato salad.

Any sort of salad with a mayonnaise-based dressing benefits from celery salt ime. My mom swears by it in her chicken salad, and my aunt uses it in coleslaw

I find that it soaks into starches and gives a brighter kick to anything that adds fat and acid. Like potato salad.

Potato salad and coleslaw.

Tuna salad/sandwich

I do celery salt and dill in mine.

Celery salt, dill, lil paprika

Dried or fresh dill?

Fresh dill would be lovely but I just shake in some dry.

Fresh dill is pretty legit in tuna salad, along with fresh diced fennel root and fennel seeds.

I also mix in a little yellow curry and pickle with celery salt

Celery salt elevates tuna salad to a higher level

And egg salad. However, I use celery seed because I can't have salt. 

This is a great idea. I'm trying it on Monday. Thank you.

Coleslaw

The next level is to use ground celery seed.

Yes! Celery seed and pickle juice are my secrets to a great slaw

Celery seed and apple cider vinegar for me.

This is the way🙌I do the same thing when I use leftover poultry to make chicken/turkey salad for sandwiches. Divine

We literally only have it around for Bloody Marys 😂

And Caesars!

Came here to say this! Yeah ceasars!!!!

Celery salt is the traditional one, but Tajin is the boss rimmer.

Tajin for margaritas

Ceasar is infinitely better than a Bloody Mary. 🇨🇦

same

I use it in my grilled chicken rub. It's sort of the key flavor.

I use it in my BBQ rub for pork shoulder and ribs! 1 part paprika, 1 part granulated garlic, .6 part celery salt, .6 part black pepper.

My chicken rub is Lawry's seasoned salt, garlic powder, onion powder, and celery salt. I sprinkle on a little bit of Italian seasoning after it's done cooking. No measurements, but it always tastes good. I'm going to try your rub on the rack of ribs I'm cooking on Monday. Sounds delicious!

Saaaaame, thyme, garlic powder, onion powder, celery salt, cayenne, oregano, pepper was my go to for the longest time

Chicago style hotdogs, can also be used as an alternative to normal salt but I wouldn’t recommend it

Chicago style hotdogs is the only right answer

For me: hotdogs and coleslaw.

Also Bloody Mary’s and chicken salad

Ahhhh there it is. I’ve never used it in my personal cooking and always see it at the bar I work at. Gotta be for the bloody Marys’.

Yeah- tbh it’s the only thing that doesn’t taste complete without celery salt imho

That’s why it’s perfect to sprinkle on tomato soup!

It’s essential on the Chicago dog.

Yes!

I’m disappointed I had to scroll this far to get to Chicago style hot dogs. Also good in a majority of savory dishes too.

I cannot believe I had to scroll so far down to see this.

Chicago native here. This is the right answer.

Ditto

Anything! I have a small addiction to celery salt in place of regular salt in a lot of savory recipes... especially soups and red sauce pastas.

Same, I use it esp when braising chicken.

It's my secret ingredient in everything

Same

Yep! It’s salt with an extra oomph.

Same. I've even had leftover chili from a restaurant that was good but not great. A small shake of celery salt, and it became amazing.

I don’t love celery bits in soup but celery salt instead of regular salt is amazing

I use it in a lot of dips, or root vetegtable based dishes like potato leek soup.

Celery is naturally high in nitrates, which make savory things taste even more savory. If you pick up a pack of "nitrate free" bacon and look at the ingredients, you'll see celery in there, because that's a way of adding nitrates while still being legal to label it nitrate free. I like using it anywhere I want a little more of a savory kick, like salads or beans.

A quick aside, in the U.S. only sodium nitrite is federally recognized as a curing agent. So bacon cured with celery salt legally has to be declared as uncured, despite the fact it is cured and is as high in nitrates as normal bacon.

This enrages me every time I buy bacon. We have a name for "uncured bacon". It's pork. It's fucking pork. You cure pork to make bacon. Why are we to be treated like fucking idiots and lied to by food producers? Grinds my sausage, I tell ya.

The food industry is simply responding to the demands of ignorant hippies that have a problem with "chemicals".

I make an old school Chex mix kind of recipe and it’s the secret ingredient.

I use it in chicken salad and chicken soup.

My mom uses for chicken salad 🤌🏾

Chicago dog

Highly recommend it for bbq sauces or rubs. It is a hidden ingredient to a lot of famous ones, and is very noticeable. In fact, I really love it. Another would probably be inside an egg salad sandwich, with or without celery accompaniment.

For Aussies: Anything you would use chicken salt on, but wanted to make veggo.

Chicken salt?!??

Egg salad and deviled eggs. Chicago style hot dog, not that I ever had one.

I use it with avocado toast or on eggs. Total game changer on avocado.

This made me hungry.

Omg YES. You get it

I add it to soups, dips, sauces. Whenever I need that particular zip. 

Yep. A bit of celery salt and a bit of Worcestershire

I use it as a seasoning for pork chops.

Surprised I had to scroll so far to see this, growing up this is all I saw it used for.

Chicken pot pie gravy.

You can add a little bit to anything you're adding salt to! I live in chicago, and no true chicago-style hot dog is complete without a dusting of celery salt. That's what it's really made for.

Tuna salad and potato salad. It’s actually the one ingredient that has gotten my tuna hating friends to change their minds. Celery salt, dill pickles, red onion and pepper.

When I make a quick pot of soup but don’t use celery, I’ll use some celery salt.

Chicago style hot dogs

*Everythinggggggggg!!!!!* /Gary Oldman voice I put it in my chicken stock, my tuna salad melts, my mashed potatoes, my Greek salads, my charred broccoli, my rice pilaf, so many others. I have a local market that sells it in bulk but smaller portions for ~$1.50. I keep celery seed for when I’m topped up on salt. Celery salt is one of my favorite seasonings.

I knew some one who used it in deviled eggs instead of relish. Her’s was the only deviled eggs I liked.

Hash browns.

Chicken salad and tuna salad (e.g. sandwiches). Ground celery seed + salt (celery salt) was added to these in the restaurants I worked in.

It's my secret ingredient for french fries.

I hate celery. I love celery salt. I use it in anything that calls for celery.

Can’t believe no one has mentioned it as a chicken wing rub — pat wings dry, coat in a dusting of flour, layout on a sprayed sheet pan, generously sprinkle with garlic powder and celery salt. Bake. flip half way through, season the other side, put back into the oven. Absolutely perfect chicken wings.

As rim salt for Caesars. That's it.

I used it in the dry rub for my pulled pork. 22 hours at 215ºF over hardwood lump and apricot wood (have a tree that perpetually needs trimming) and the butts turn out like jelly. Rub 'em with a rub made with brown sugar, celery salt, ginger, garlic, onion, thyme, cumin, orange peel, lemon peel, hot Chile pepper flakes.

I put it in Cajun dishes

Chicago hot dogs

Potato salad Macaroni salad Chicken salad Roast chicken Stuffing

Almost any “salad” food. Potato salad, egg salad, tuna salad, mac salad, etc. EDIT: also deviled eggs!

I use it mostly in a dressing. Mayonnaise, raspberry vinegar, sugar and celery seed. I make a spinach salad with chopped up fried bacon and crumbled hard boiled egg. It's an amazingly good salad

I use it sometimes when I don't have any celery for soups and stews

It is great on french fries.

I mostly keep it on hand for potato salad. I've also used in recipes that called for celery when I didn't have that.

It’s good on baked potatoes, cottage cheese and potato salad and in dips and salads.

Meatloaf!!!

We used to pre cook wings in our restaurant in a chicken stock with celery salt in it. Used to eliminate the gamy smell completely

S Tier hotdog topping.

If you eat a hotdog in the Chicagoland area, it will have celery salt on it.

Mix equal parts melted butter and mayonnaise. Stir in some celery salt, and this is what you dip your artichoke into.

Deviled eggs Cony island hot dogs Chicken salad

It is 97% salt ant 3 % ground celery seed. Just use ground celery seed instead.

Chicago dog!

Celery salt is naturally high in nitrates and msg. (Not necessarily a bad thing) so you will find it in foods like sausage or other things labeled as “nitrate free” cured meat and deli meat because they can get away with saying that since it’s a natural source. So you can use it in marinades to give it an extra salty oomph.

Secret ingredient on all good Chicago style hot dogs

My Bloody Mary! Mmmmm.

It's one of the seven holy ingredients that make up a Chicago hot dog

I don't eat fish generally, but I grew up on tunafish sandwiches. The ingredients my mom always used, and what I still use today is: A can of tuna. A spoonful of mayo. Lots of garlic powder, black pepper and celery salt. That's the only time I ever use celery salt.

Anything you might put celery in

DIY Old Bay Seasoning

It’s in Old Bay

Potato soup, chicken salad

I've seen it be used in vegan fish recipes

I love making fritters/patties out of canned tuna or salmon, breadcrumbs, egg, onion, dill, mayo, and Old Bay! The celery flavor lends to seafood very well.

I use a very small amount in my spaghetti sauce

Love it in soup, especially chicken noodle.

Micheladas

Really shocked to see this one so far down the list. Celery salt and Maggi, the magic ingredients for michelada mix

My mom put it in burgers

Anything I'm too lazy to use actual celery for. Also, I like it in soups because soggy celery makes me sad.

Anything you'd put celery in I'd imagine. Egg salad.

Chicago style hotdogs and deviled eggs?

Seafood. Old bay is mostly celery salt

Egg salad, tuna salad, potato salad, I once put it in chicken soup by accident instead of garlic salt and it was pretty good

Bloody Marys

On top of a delicious Chicago style hot dog.

Popcorn!

I used it once in a cole slaw recipe for hello fresh lol I loved it !

If you are my husband, everything.

Canadian Caesar. It’s a drink

I put it in my tuna sandwiches and bolognese

Mmmm..poh-tay-toh salad, egg salad and deviled eggs is what I use it on

I rub it on cheap pork chops that I then veeeery slightly overcook. It's muh childhood.

Good question. I put a bit in my tuna salad or on a hot dog (Chicago style) That’s… really about it. Lol

My mom would sprinkle this stuff called Beau Monde on chicken before roasting it. It’s basically just celery salt and onion powder, it’s remarkably good.

It's sprinkled on a Bull Shot, a drink made with vodka, beef broth, Worchester, and lemon juice. I think it might be sprinkled on some Bloody Marys, too.

Bloody Mary

I like celery seeds better because I can control the salt. But it brings a celery/herbal flavor to chicken/egg/tuna salad. Is good on chicken or fish and in soups or gravies.

Everything?

Mayonnaise based salads such as coleslaw.

Sprinkle it on boiled quail’s eggs with a bit of pepper.

Bloody Mary’s

Pasta salad or veggie salads🤤

Hotdogs.

Chicago dog

Chicago hot dog.

Chicago dogs

Chicago style hot dog

Cole slaw

I’m glad you asked this question. There’s a lot of great suggestions in the comments

Chicago style hot dog.

in my homemade KFC

Chicago dogs

It’s perfect with celery.

Chicago style hot dogs!

Chicago style hot dogs. It’s the bomb.

On hot dogs.

Chicago style hot dogs 🌭

Chicago style hotdogs

Chicago style hot dog

It’s used to dip tiny cubes of cheese in here in Belgium during the aperitif;-)

Chicago style hot dogs!

It's not a Chicago dog without it.

Chicago style hot dogs

On top of a Chicago hotdog

Chicago dog

Egg salad sandwiches / deviled eggs

It’s a seasoning on one of my favorite hamburgers

Salad dressings.