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BR in Atlanta

Anybody discovered the recipe for the secret sauce at Raing Cane's Chicken Fingers? It's a great place for chicken (I think it's only in Louisiana), but the sauce is UNREAL!
Any help is much appreciated.

Recipe: Raising Canes Chicken Finger Sauce

Jena

hey im pretty sure that the ingredients are Ketchup, Mayonnaise, and Tony Chachres seasoning
I'm not sure about how much of each ingredient is put in it, but you can test them

ISO: Raising Canes CANE SAUCE

Beverly Louisiana

I work at RAISING CANES. I DONT KNOW whats in the CANE SAUCE cause only the MANAGERS are allowed to make it.. ITS TERRIBLY ADDICTIVE THOUGH, cant EAT FRIES WITHOUT IT anymore.. AND FYI, I asked a manager about making the recipe at home and this was his answer:
You cant buy the ingredients that we use from a GROCERY STORE, and EVEN IF I knew ALL the ingredients, I could NEVER get the proportoning RIGHT to taste like REAL CANE SAUCE..

Raising Canes are GROWING, now in TEXAS, MISSISSIPPI,COLORADO,OHIO and other states SOON..
Beverly

Recipe(tried): Chicken Finger Sauce like Raising Cane's - I Found out how to make the best Cane's recepie

Kelsi Louisiana

I read some of your posted messages and I found out how to make a good taste alike recipe for Cane's Sauce. This is what you need:

Mayonnaise
Ketchup
Tony's Chachere's Original Seasoning
Black Pepper

Take the mayonnaise and put as much as you need for amount of people.

Mix in ketchup (enough till it turns to the Cane's color.)

Mix in pepper and Tony's to taste.

When you mix in pepper and Tony's you will be able to taste that wonderful Cane's Sauce.

Recipe(tried): The Real Raising Canes Sauce

Bang in Louisiana

Hey, I use to work there a LONG LONG time ago. I use to make the sauce almost everyday.
The ingredients are as follows:

Mayonaise
Ketchup
Black Pepper
Garlic Salt
Worcester Sauce (secret ingredient)

Where this sauce is addictive, it is not as addictive as the amount of MSG they put in the marinade and batter. It is habit-forming and is really bad for you.

ISO: What are the Proportions for the Cane Sauce

Beverly, Louisiana

What are the proportions of the ingredients you gave for the Canes Sauce?? OH, I dont work there anymore, I quit 2 months ago. I HAVE heard though from my friend still there that a COMPANY will SOON be making the CANES SAUCEs.. SOOOO it might be coming to a STORE NEAR YOU SOON!!

Beverly

Recipe(tried): Proportions for Cane's Sauce

Jordan Baton Rouge/Houston

1/2 cup mayonnaise (I used Kraft)
1/4 cup Heniz Ketchup
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
ground black pepper to taste

ISO: Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - Cane's is the best!

Sam - Mandeville LA

Raising Cane's is the single best chicken place in Louisiana or the Mississippi Coast! I eat there three or four times a week. I hope they have fablous success with their expansion. This is the right way to run a business! NOW, does anyone know the recipe for the fingers themselves????

Thank You: Cane's Sauce

Stephanie- Terrytown,LA

I love you! ha -i'm gonna try that recipe soon. i hope that's it. i think i'll die. (i'm a lil obsessed, if you can't tell)

Thank You: Canes' sauce

Elmo P. Fuddpucker

Points to ponder: My 18 yr old kid works at a Canes and swears he knows the recipe to the sauce but will not even discuss it. He is a VERY honest kid and has always been very open with us. They said they made him sign an affidavit of confidentiality regarding the sauce. I beleive him about the affidavit. However, if this recipe really is secret, would YOU tell ten thousand kids your secret and then tell them not to tell?? Don't think so. You cant even find this recipe on GOOGLE! Ten million young girls know this recipe but won't tell?? Please.

My hypothesis is that nobody at the retail level knows the recipe. They tell them to say that they know, but cant tell what it is...to keep the mystery alive. Baloney. I also think that everything in the sauce is commonly available and cheap. It's good sauce, and cheap to buy in 32 oz cups from Cane's.

Remember the secret popcorn recipe from Reddenbocher? The eleven herbs and spices on KFC? Bah.

re: Cane's Sauce

Anonymous, Baton Rouge, LA

I'm one of the people that makes the sauce. We do indeed have all our employees sign a confidentiality agreement, and for some reason most of them take it pretty seriously. Only the managers and a few crewmembers know the exact recipe, but about 75% of the employees can at least tell you the ingredients.

You can make the sauce with common ingredients, and I've calculated out the exact recipe in a smaller size (we make it several gallons at a time), and I've made it at home and discovered its much much cheaper (about 60% cheaper) to just buy a 20 or 32 oz sauce than to make an equivalent amount myself.

As to why you can't find the recipe on the internet, I have a theory that someone over here regularly searches the internet and finds the recipe and gets it deleted. Or maybe nobody that actually knows the exact recipe has ever felt the need to post it.

Recipe(tried): Lefty's Clone Sauce (Cane's Sauce)

Lefty - Baton Rouge

I worked on "cloning" the sauce recipe for several weeks and finally got a recipe that cannot be discerned from the actual in-store cane's sauce. I don't say this lightly, because I tested it on over 20 friends/family/co-workers using my sauce side-by-side with some real Cane's sauce (in unlabeled containers) and nobody, I mean nobody, could tell the difference. In fact, more people picked the "real" sauce for the fake!

Here 'tis:

LEFTY'S CLONE SAUCE (CANE'S SAUCE)

1/2 cup mayonnaise (I use Dukes, Blue Plate or Hellmann's)
1/4 cup ketchup (I use whatever's on sale)
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce (I use Lea & Perrins)
1 tsp Zatarain's or Tony's (I prefer Zatarains)
1/2 tsp ground black pepper

Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Cover tightly and refrigerate for at least several hours, but preferably overnight.

P.S. - This recipe is even more valuable to me now that I'm boycotting Raising Cane's Raising Prices and Cheapening Portion Size To Cheat The Good Customers

I urge everyone to do the same. Todd got rich and got greedy.

re: Raising Canes chicken finger sauce

fred savage

ok guys ...zatarans nor tonys is in canes sauce i promise you guys...every single person is missing one huge ingrediant...i dare not disclose the secret ...ill let you guys be the judge of the tonys though...even though thats not it at all...love peace and chicken grease

Recipe: Guthrie's Secret Sauce (re: Raising Cane's Chicken Finger Sauce)

Mel, in Ohio, Pining for Canes!

OKAY, the missing ingredient is PAPRIKA! Supposedly, Cane's is a copycat itself of an Alabama Chain called Guthrie's. The owner posted his sauce recipe, which Cane's copied! Here it is, and of anyone knows how to make Cane's Honey Mustard sauce.....feel free to reply! Thanks!

SECRET SAUCE

1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup ketchup
1/2 tablespoon garlic powder
1/2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon paprika
Generous amount of black pepper (cover surface two or three times and mix in)

Combine all ingredients. It will start to look and taste right as you blend them together, but it is best to let the sauce sit for a few hours before serving.

ISO: Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers

Chris

I am craving the Chicken Fingers from Canes, can anyone help me with the recipe?? I have tried the sause ones but the chicken just is not right.
Thanks.

re: Cane's Sauce LC

AD Cedar Rapids, IA

We just left Lake Charles, LA and are in total Cane's withdrawl...there has to be something "illegal" in ALL of their food for it to be THAT good - even the bread and the Iced Tea!

We've tried the simple recipe but I think we are going to have to get some Tony's and try again.
Thanks

Recipe: Raising Cane's Chicken Wing Sauce (copycat recipe)

Dude; Around

I worked for Cane's back when there was only one restaurant on Highland Rd in Baton Rouge, and again at another location fairly recently. I cannot confirm that the sauce recipe did not change, but the sauce tasted the same as I remembered it from when I learned the recipe.

The real secret to Raising Cane's fingers is twofold. First is that they use only fresh, never frozen chicken fingers. Any foodie will confirm that this makes a difference. I remember my manager plunging his hand into all boxes of chicken tenders received to ensure that they were not frozen. While he griped about it every time we received a shipment, it certainly did guarantee a superior product. The other secret, as has been speculated, is MSG. The tenders are marinated for no less than 24 hours in a brining solution of water, salt, and MSG. The breading on the tenders also includes MSG. Back in the day, before Cane's started using pre-mixed marinade and breading flour, the use of the term "MSG" in a recipe was taboo, instead referred to as "the good stuff" in the resaurant.

So now to the recipe--(I have not found a conversion for lbs mayonnaise to any volume of mayonnaise):

10 lbs Kraft Real Mayonnaise
(3) #10 cans Ketchup (Heinz, as I remember)
40 fl. oz. Worcestershire sauce
3/4 cup ground black pepper
3/4 cup garlic salt

That's it. Many have speculated that Tony Chachere's seasoning is used in Cane's sauce, but if you mix worcestershire, garlic, and black pepper, who needs Tony's? The reddish color may contribute to the myth (or to the myth that paprika is included), but mix mayo and ketchup and you will have the pale-reddish color of Cane's sauce without any additions. I assure you that this is the genuine, original recipe for Cane's sauce. Scale it down, or make the roughly 4 gallons of sauce that this recipe yields, and give it the Pepsi Challenge.

I have seen a request for the honey-mustard recipe. I have it somewhere, and will post it if I can find it, but HM is HM to me.

canes is not original

brad TN

Has anyone ate at Guthries(they have twenty stores in alabama, georgia etc.Has anyone ate at Zaxby's(they have stores all over the southeast, over 200. You guys in LA need to know that raising canes copied Guthries. Zaxby's copied Guthries as well. There is a chicken place in savanah GA and Knoxville TN called Sawyers. Same thing. They all have the same chicken receipe and sauce. Nothing new or original, just a copy of a copy. Originater is Guthries. Look it up online.In my opinion, it is the blandest tasting chicken, no flavor at all. You don't know good chicken if you like raising canes. The only thing good is the sauce which he copied from Guthries, and there is a handful of other chicken places that use the same stuff. It is mayonase, ketchup, garlic powder, worchesire sauce, and black pepper. Thats it. NOTHING SPECIAL.

re: Guthrie's secret sauce

Denise Alabama

I live in Auburn Alabama where we have two Guthrie's and I must say this is the best sauce I have ever eaten. Rumor has it when hired to work there you must sign a disclosure as to not reveal the ingredients for the sauce.

Recipe: Raising Cane's Chicken Wing Sauce - This is the real deal!

Anonymous

This guy is for real. He has covered every aspect of the chicken, "juice" (marinade), and sauce. The only other secret is not really a secret--cook to order w/ no heat lamps. I, too, worked at the original Cane's back in '96 (when the recipe was guarded, but not super-secret), and at a new location a few years ago (where I signed a non-disclosure agreement; thus the anonymous posting). I may have been that manager complaining about plunging a hand into each case of chicken as it was delivered, something I did even at the new location (both plunging AND complaining). I can confirm that the recipe has remained the same, and using a conversion factor of 1.07 mL/g for mayo, and 12 cups/#10 can for the ketchup, you get (roughly):

1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup ketchup
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 tsp. black pepper (med. ground)

Incidentally, "back in the day" Cane's used only real butter on the Texas toast; today it is a butter/margarine blend. As for the Cane's/Guthrie's comparisons, founder Todd Graves worked at a Guthrie's, and figured it was an easy concept to copy that should work well near the LSU campus. When I last worked for them, Cane's director of operations (Roddy) was one of Todd's manager from Guthrie's. Cane's Sauce=Guthrie's sauce.

ISO: Raising Cane's Breading Recipe

Caniac in Louisiana

For those of you who worked at the original Cane's, your Cane's Sauce is spot on. Do any of you remember the seasoning
recipe for the flour (breading recipe)? I know they use to mix it in-house for a while, but don't anymore. Caniac

Recipe: Cane's Sauce

food guy shreveport

I supply food to Cane's and I will tell you that you guys are missing a few items from the recipe. I will give you one for free...Worcestershire sauce

ISO: Cane's Marinade

John

Does anyone know ingredients/proportions for the marinade or breading?

Recipe(tried): My secret sauce that tastes kinda like Canes *hint hint*

Bob from Ohio

MY SECRET SAUCE THAT TASTES KINDA LIKE CANES

First off, everyone has left off one thing outta their recipes. And you do not have to use a conversion factor or some other crazy stuff. You make the sauce in parts. Like lets say it calls for 3 parts something one part another and you use cups...you use 3 cups of one thing and 1 cup of the other (granted thats a ton of sauce)

3 parts mayonnaise
1 part ketchup
1 part Worcestershire sauce
1 part black pepper
1 part garlic salt
1 part LEMON JUICE

Everyone has forgotton the lemon juice...
I got my recipe from a man who actually worked at a Canes...
Enjoy!!

re: Sauce like Canes

anaymous

ummm lemon juice is definitely not in the canes sauce...im a manager at canes and ill definitely tell you lemon juice is not in the canes sauce unless ive been making it wrong for the past three years. that would make the sauce very bitter. trust me on this one

ISO: Cane's is a copy of Guthrie's which has been around much longer in Alabama

GJ Baton Rouge, LA

Cane's is an exact copy of Guthrie's in Alabama which has been around much longer in Alabama. In fact long before Cane's showed up there were many copy cat restaurants of Guthries and some similar such as the Chicken Shack in Guntersville, AL. The idea that the sauce is a huge secret is laughable since Raising Cane's copied the sauce in the first place.

Canes may not be original but its Hella Good

Justin South East US

I have ate at Zaxby's and both Canes I prefer Canes and I am a native of North Carolina Who recently moved to Louisiana and Canes is soooooo much better and yes Guthries tastes just like canes

Recipe: Raising Canes Chicken Finger Sauce

Anon. caniac

in the big jug
mayo
ketchup
Worcestershire sauce
garlic salt
black pepper

There, now you all can stop guessing. up to you, however, to figure out how much of what ;)

Thank You: Raising Cane's Chicken Wing Sauce

Louie the LumberJack

Just made the sauce and you guys are right on, thank you so much. Is there anyway you could elaborate a little more on the process of makeing the actual chicken tenders? Thanks again

Louie

re: Raising Cane's Chicken Wing Sauce - This is NOT Cane's recipe!

Baton Rouge, LA

I eat at Cane's frequently ... I made this recipe listed above and i say without equivocation that it is clearly NOT the correct cane's recipe. Honestly, it's not even close.
Take a look at the Cane's sauce at the store and you will see little red flakes in it. Clearly it's paprika, maybe sweet paprika.
the sauce in this recipe doesn't taste even remotely like Cane's sauce. Even the addition of Paprika doesn't mimic the Cane's sauce. There's something missing.