Thread 21648461

Does this stuff deserve to be worth more than gold?
Do you regularly use it?

It's labour-intensive to harvest in usable quantities.
No, I don't use it. Fucking hate the stuff. I actually prefer the bullshit cheapo alternatives like safflower. Saffron has too strong of a flavour. It's got that sweet, grassy flavour going, sure, but also a kinda medicinal-herb-y thing, too, (not to mention the metallic aftertaste it can sometimes have; even fresh can have it but that metallic-iness only gets more pronounced as it ages and loses its floral notes).
And no, I haven't had fake saffron. It's grown where I'm from and has PDO status. My aunt even used to grow it as a side hustle at her vineyard so I can guarantee you it was real every time. I just don't like it.

I like to grind it with sugar and make tea. Or hot milk, or icecream. The flavor is rather subtle in icecream.

I notice the flavor more in deserts than savoury dishes.

I only use it when making rouille sauce that's about it
don't particularly like it in risotto its too strong

saffron is about $3700 per kilo

can you let me know where you're finding gold at that price, please?

>>21648461 (OP)
Yes.
Yes.

>>21648461 (OP)
It's very good, the people who don't like it are buying fake shit and not real persian saffron.
I don't use it often but making saffron buns is traditional over here in the winter so I bake with it at least a few times a year

>>21650189
>real saffron
>persian saffron
Pick one.
There's barely any oversight on saffron production in Iran and saffron there is rife with fraud. Pretty much any saffron-producing place outside of Europe is.
I'm >>21648483
As mentioned, my aunt grew the fuckers so there's zero chance that the saffron I got was fake. I just prefer safflower. And that's okay. What isn't okay is your extreme homosexuality. Do you think your father would be proud of that?

>makes up story how he is the only one who has ever had real saffron
lmao it's so pathetic I fucking can't with you people

>>21650360
You are not very smart.

>>21650338
>>21650378
Quoted the wrong post

>>21650379
Nope. I can see why you'd think that because, again: >>21650378

>>21650382
see
>>21650378

>>21650383
>no u
Oh no. I've been defeated. How will I ever recover. /sarcasm

>>21650386
Well now everyone knows you're from reddit since you exposed yourself like that so just know everyone is laughing at you kid

I wasn't aware consooming saffron made you into a flaming homosexual
but the evidence is clear
because everyone in this thread is being a little faggot

>>21650390
I've honestly never been there. Why are you so with it, ma'am?

>>21650395
Nah bro you can't squirm your way outta this one

>>21650397
Answer the question, Kelsie.

>>21650399
You can't turn this around redditor, it's over

>>21650401
iyss, it sure is : )

>>21650402
Direct your seething at someone else, redditor, before you embarrass yourself further

>>21650404
: )

>>21650407
Just out of curiosity, are you one of those people who seethe so hard they will keep responding no matter what just to get the last word in?
I'll let you get the last reply in, don't worry, I just want to see if you're really that pathetic.

I don't know even what is this or I'm just a retard

only ever bought the powder from the supermarket, don't know if it's anything like the pistils but I like it

saffron's price is a meme, you use like 6 shreds to make rice

>>21650409
No. I'm the sort of person who stepped away for a minute to get my kid some breakfast then had a nice morning watching him climb shit, checked my phone, saw this and thought "wow, that Reddit lady who has never actually had saffron is really rather upset, isn't she? How sad for her."
>>21650565
The powders are usually adulterated but if you like it, that's all that really matters. Real or not doesn't change whether or not you like what you've had.

>>21648461 (OP)
Random stuff, by value:
>Gold
>Silver
>Saffron
>Pure Colombian cocaine

I have tried throwing it in dishes to see if anything happens other than staining my food like tumeric without the tumeric taste. I have been unsuccessful thus far.

I have maybe $200 total worth of saffron I have no idea what to do with. Half of it was bought in the year 2000 and lost in a cupboard until recent. I managed to score a brand new tin still in the shrink earlier this year.

I have tried saffron in a rice pilaf a couple of times. I taste nothing different and only note the rice is a different color akin to tumaric's ability to stain. Maybe the Y2K saffron is too weak now, but I do enjoy making tea with it. It still smells lovely, so it can be that far gone.

My question is this, what would you do with saffron that's over 20 years old?

I don't feel right opening my new saffron without using this old stuff. I'm thinking of grinding it up and adding it to my coffee grounds every morning. Although, I presume the coffee would rape any taste of saffron.

>>21650589
So you are, got it
You can get the last reply to "win" now if you want, go ahead

>>21650907
>outing herself as a liar
lol
>>21650589
Stop replying to her.

>he's pretending to be two different people now
reddit causes schizophrenia apparently

And you shut the fuck up

>>21650641
>Platinum
>Gold
>one five guys burger
>saffron
>catalytic converters

>>21648461 (OP)
It tastes like SHIT. So no.

>>21648461 (OP)
>Does this stuff deserve to be worth more than gold?
It's a bitch to harvest, that is why it costs a lot.

>Do you regularly use it?
No. Just risotto and paella uses it, and I rarely make the former. Not gonna make tea out of it, too expensive.

>>21650918
>Stop
No.
>>21651044
Also no.
>>21650856
At that point, the saffron has lost what makes it good and only retains the unpleasant qualities, if any whatsoever. Better to just use the new stuff if you're going to use it at all. But if you've used it and detect no flavour change to begin with, you've got fake or old stuff already. Saffron has a ridiculously strong flavour when fresh and real.