All Purpose

All-purpose means one shaker for the whole cook — a balanced salt, pepper and garlic style blend with no dominant heat or sweetness, built to sit next to the stove and get used on everything, not get pulled out for one cut and left in the cupboard.

Reach for it on beef, chicken, pork, eggs and a tray of roast veg alike — anywhere a background layer of savoury flavour is wanted without fighting whatever sauce or marinade comes after it.

Start with Hardcore Carnivore's Red Rub for an easy US-import everyday shaker, Butchers Axe's Basecamp All-Purpose Seasoning for a balanced Melbourne-made option, Low N Slow Basics' Garlic Goals for a garlic-forward version that doubles on chips and popcorn, or Taipan BBQ's Aussie All-Rounder for a straightforward Australian-made shaker built for exactly this job.

At 66-plus products, all-purpose here is not one generic blend wearing different labels — it runs garlic-forward, peppery, herby and everything between, so the everyday shaker still has real range to choose from, not a single default.

Several, including Butchers Axe, Low N Slow Basics and Taipan BBQ above, are made right here in Australia, and a good few — Hardcore Carnivore's Red Rub among them — are gluten free, built by people who reach for the same jar more than any other in the pantry. One shaker, everything on the plate.