/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16332775
>he can't taste bay leaves

>ohlookitsthisthreadagain.pdf

>>16332775
It's the vanilla for savory foods bud

>>16332775
>he doesn't buy fresh bayleaves

Bay leaves are like the angostura bitters of the food world. They're not the main flavor but they just make everything else taste better.

How old are your leaves bro?

>>16332786
Do you post this in every fast food ranking thread too? You must be a busy beaver.

>>16332775
They add hints of earthiness and a very slight bitterness that makes a nice addition to the flavor profile. Sorry about your poorly functional tongue

>>16332803
>earthiness

So they make things taste like dirt?

>>16332796
mabby if you were a supertaster you wouldnt have to baww about muh flavourless bayleaves every week
did you ever think about that?

>>16332820
Holy shit that 4chanspeak. Any chance you could type all that out again but in English?

>>16332814
>So they make things taste like dirt?
you just said they taste like nothing. at least keep your own story straight if you're gonna shitpost.

>>16332788
>he doesn’t pick leaves from his bay tree
ngmi

>>16332775
First off, this >>16332786
Secondly, thyme, with some mint or eucalyptus. If your leaves are stale, double or triple up on them, especially if you can't taste what's going on.

>>16332826
You have to go back.

>>16332925
cope and dilate

>>16332775
Nice job making this thread again you tranny faggot

>>16332925
To the superior site that is reddit, you mean?

>>16332924
Good description.
If you can't taste bay, trying boiling a leaf for a little bit and then sucking on it. You'll know what it tastes like then and be able to taste it in things.

>>16332775
>they add no flavor to things they're put in.
I've scientifically proven that to be untrue. I once forgot to remove the bay leaf from my ragu for my lasagne, after it cooked for a while in the oven (inbetween to pasta layers) its taste was clearly noticeable, even overpowering in that area. So I conclude that in normal circumstances bay leaves will always alter the flavor of your dish, even if only in small amounts.

>>16332826
I say, good sir, hadst thou ever considered the implication that if thou had been born with such characteristics of an individual possessing a moniker such as "super taster" that perchance the obligation to commence a tiresome thread such as this one every fortnight would become quite unnecessary?


Fair thee well, kind internet stranger.

>>16332908
bay leaves don't come from a tree, it's a bush idiot

>>16333456
Your mother came from a bush too you fucking faggot. Don't EVER correct me again.

>>16333690
wrong, my grandma shaves

>>16333456
It's an evergreen tree you fuckin mong

>>16333714
if you want to call shrubs, trees, that's fine. I have no problem with retarded opinions

>>16332908
>>16333456

>Laurus nobilis is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glabrous smooth leaves, in the flowering plant family Lauraceae

>>16333731
only a retard would call it a tree

>and then tells you to take them out after an hour

>>16333727
Shrubs don't grow 25+ feet tall with thick trunks, they're trees

>>16332925
>doesn't understand some random 4chan sperg posting
>"U MUST GO BACK REDDIT BECUASE YOU KNOW U JUST HAVE TO BECAUSE YOU DONT UNDERSTAND SOME POINTLESS AUTISTIC POST THAT ONLY SOMEONE WHO DOESNT VALUE THEIR TIME WOULD UNDERSTAND

kys irl, not in Minecraft

>>16333746
i have one
it's a fucking small tree in my book
a bush is more dense.

>>16332775
like any herb they don't last forever, the older they are the weaker they taste and most people's bay leaves have been sitting around for years

>>16333959
was it marco pierre that thought 20 mins is fine because it'll poison the food if kept forever?

Anyways fresh bay leaf is like 10 times more potent than dried ones

>>16332775
They're mostly a con.
Fresh Bay leaves do make a huge difference though.

>>16332775
Make your dish with and without bay leaves, I guarantee you'll notice something missing. Unless you're using like 2 year old dried ones that do nothing anyway.

>>16333984
you're not a botanist
>>16334067
>more dense
learn how to prune properly

>>16333425
kek

>>16334052
It's difficult communicating with someone who has a rudimentary grasp of english, Deng. How many years of shitposting do you have left before they'll let you see your wife and kid again?

>>16332925
>do I fit in yet?

>>16332775
Fresh bay leaves are totally in a different ballpark than dried.

>>16333456
It’s a fucking tree retard and >>16333731
bTFO you, bellend

>>16332775
Do an experiment. Make two versions of the same recipe, except omit bay leaves from one of them.
Do a taste test to see if you notice a difference.

>>16332792
>not doing shots of bitters
ngmi

>>16332788
>he doesn't own a bay tree

>>16332775
>They taste like nothing
nontaster confirmed. The likes of you aren't welcome on this cooking board with threads on nothing but alcoholism and fast food.

>>16336251
can you not read, it says shrub

>>16332775
Make tea with it if you want to know what it taste like you fuckin retard

>>16337010
It also says tree. Stop stealing air please.

>>16337123
Mmm, car mirror air freshener flavor...

>>16337446
how can something be a tree and a shrub at the same time? stop being retarded!

>>16332792
Honestly this is pretty spot on, OP is a cooklet

Fuck it I'll just throw in a maple leaf