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Anonymous Mon Nov 5 06:42:51 2018 No.11431378 [Reply] [Original]

>grow your own saffron
>never have to spend money on any
>?????
>save money
>profit huge amounts

why don't you do this, neckbeards?

Anonymous Mon Nov 5 06:51:03 2018 No.11431390

Because I'm not a berber herdsman and I make more money pushing the plastic buttons on a square board that a wire comes out of, and talking into the harness tied to my face. I can buy a year's supply of saffron in a few hours' work, and I use saffron pretty generously. inb4 it's fake, no, stop with your projecting. Nobody uses saffron like it's beef, so there's no sense in comparing the price by the pound. The stuff just isn't that expensive.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 06:54:48 2018 No.11431395 >>11431378 honestly i'm tempted to grow it just because of how beautiful it looks

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 07:03:08 2018 No.11431405 i buy my supply of saffron once a year when i visit iran. i pick up some other spices as well while in country. feels good being Swiss and not having my fascist government tell me what countries i'm allowed to visit

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 07:05:38 2018 No.11431409 >>11431405 this. honestly i'd kill myself if i was an american.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 07:06:26 2018 No.11431412 >>11431405 Why not buy locally, then? https://www.valais.ch/de/aktivitaeten/wein-kulinarik/safran

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 08:13:19 2018 No.11431527 >>11431405 your country has beautiful cows oh, I meant WOMEN fuck off mountainigger

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 08:17:26 2018 No.11431536 >>11431412 the quality of Iranian saffron is much higher the soil of valais is not suited for growing saffron. same thing with their attempts to do lavender it doesn't work. >>11431409 very based truth post

Anonymous Mon Nov 5 09:28:09 2018 No.11431696

>>11431378
saffron isn't difficult to grow, it's just tedious to harvest enough stigmas from the flowers to amount to any serious amount of saffron.
>One freshly picked flower yields an average 30 mg (0.0011 oz) of fresh saffron or 7 mg (0.00025 oz) dried; roughly 150 flowers yield 1 g (0.035 oz) of dry saffron threads; to produce 12 g (0.42 oz) of dried saffron, 1 kg (2.2 lb) of flowers are needed; 1 lb (0.45 kg) yields 0.2 oz (5.7 g) of dried saffron.[26] To glean 1 lb (450 g) of dry saffron requires the harvest of 50,000–75,000 flowers; a kilogram requires 110,000–170,000 flowers.[30][31] Forty hours of labour are needed to pick 150,000 flowers
enjoy picking 1,500 flowers for 15 grams of saffron

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 09:33:15 2018 No.11431711 Saffron isn't even good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 09:44:35 2018 No.11431727 >>11431405 Uh no one is stopping US citizens from traveling to Iran. The government simply advises against it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 15:52:01 2018 No.11432790 >>11431727 >uh

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 16:49:18 2018 No.11433042 >>11431378 >why don't you do this Because only the 3rd world is capable of producing and using the child labor force required to harvest and process the shit to make it worth the effort.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 17:00:07 2018 No.11433094 >>11432790 based >uh poster

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 17:00:50 2018 No.11433100 Does saffron smell like wet dog to anyone else? I smell it every time I come in contact and plain saffron always smells the same. Also I've made rissotto with and without saffron and I couldn't tell a difference. What am I supposed to be looking for?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 22:43:25 2018 No.11434470 >>11431378 It's like $2 for a jar of it here, maybe your shitty country's economy needs to git gud

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 5 22:48:09 2018 No.11434495 There was a huge bag of saffron at my restaurant that I always thought of stealing... was worth like 70 bucks. But who the fuck is gonna buy my stolen (or homegrown) saffron? Saffron isnt even that good. It can overpower easily.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 6 00:59:07 2018 No.11434936 >>11431711 Based and redpilled

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 6 01:00:10 2018 No.11434942 >>11434495 If it was huge 50lbs bag it was worth more like $200k than 70 bucks

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 6 01:03:02 2018 No.11434957 >>11433100 >What am I supposed to be looking for? The color red.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 6 01:05:34 2018 No.11434962 >>11431378 A bag of seeds would probably cost the same as how much I spend in a year on saffron.

Anonymous Tue Nov 6 01:32:09 2018 No.11435017

>>11431727
hahahahahahaha yeah have fun swallowing thick hot delicious cum from customs when you show them your passport with a visa stamp from iran. youre probably salivating, your anus throbbing at the thought of holding a tsa agent’s cock in your hand while his buddy runs his hands, starting at your hips, and up to your armpits while he grinds the front of his pants over your fat asshole. you look back, to bury your own face, into his own sweaty, sweaty armpit, from a long day of pat downs. he’s been waiting for you. waiting hard. you moan at the almost palpable taste of his musk, thinking of him filling the inside of your cheeks with his tongue.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 6 01:51:58 2018 No.11435061 >>11435017 you've never gone through US customs, have you? TSA has no part in handling anything to do with customs. those are actual police officers and i can't see why you'd get hassled if you were white

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 6 01:53:00 2018 No.11435064 >>11434957 but saffron makes things yellow, dumbass

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 6 02:21:20 2018 No.11435130 >>11431409 Jealous much?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 6 02:31:09 2018 No.11435153 >>11431409 >>11431405 Enjoy Mohammed raping your wives in the street snow niggers

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 6 02:34:21 2018 No.11435161 >>11435153 Enjoy Paco raping your wives in the street snow niggers

Anonymous Tue Nov 6 03:31:02 2018 No.11435247
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>>11435061
>if ur name is joseph johnson and ur coming back from iran nobody will care because youre white
>when there are literal sanctions upon the country

yeah fucking right buddy spotted the LITERAL flyover who has NEVER been selected for a tsa precheck you EXPLICIT bull gargling KEK

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 6 16:43:18 2018 No.11437143 >>11431405 Why would you go to Iran? The government abuses their citizens. I wouldn't want to be a retarded Swiss person and support regimes like Iran

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 6 21:31:15 2018 No.11438162 File: 1.79 MB, 325x244, 1523548382215.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11435017 This made me a bit hard desu how did you know my fetish?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 7 00:54:27 2018 No.11438724 >>11437143 they dont abuse their citizens any more than the american gov't desu you humble cuck. >>11435153 want to compare rates of violent crime in your country vs mine?

Anonymous Wed Nov 7 01:20:45 2018 No.11438776

>>11431378
Saffron has incredibly poor yield. We have quite a few saffron growers in my area, and it's simply not worth the labor, or the space. If you want to grow a small patch for yourself that's fine, but commercializing it for profit is next to impossible.

You're looking at several hundred square yards for ~$80 yields.

Anonymous Wed Nov 7 16:22:59 2018 No.11441097

>>11431378
It's not really worth the effort unless you really enjoy or use a lot of saffron. It takes up a lot of land and labour, both of which are probably several magnitudes more expensive where you live versus the shithole countries that grow saffron. How much do you even spend on saffron per year?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 7 16:28:07 2018 No.11441119 It's frozen for half the year where I live. I don't think I could if I wanted to.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 7 18:02:40 2018 No.11441482 >>11438724 Okay, well i guess killing bahai people in the US is now legal like in Iran

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 7 18:08:44 2018 No.11441502 >>11438724 And its illegal to be gay https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Iran

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 8 02:37:32 2018 No.11443450 >>11431378 it's labor intensive to harvest it and you get such a small amount. if you "grow your own" good for you, but you're still going to be putting a ton of effort into something else you could be doing and getting little out of it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 8 03:24:58 2018 No.11443547 >>11431378 >save money Why are you assuming preexisting saffron use to begin with here? Who cares about saffron? I've never even heard of this being used for food until now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 8 03:46:16 2018 No.11443585 >>11441502 >Gay men have faced stricter enforcement actions under the law than lesbians. Funny.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 8 03:56:16 2018 No.11443598 Can't fit that many flowers in my apartment

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 8 04:32:02 2018 No.11443631 >>11431405 I feel zero inclination to visit Iran

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 8 04:38:05 2018 No.11443638 >>11443547 >I've never even heard of this being used for food until now. You've been missing out.

Anonymous Thu Nov 8 04:41:51 2018 No.11443648

Because the yields are super low and you can get a fuckton for cheap because it's a 3rd world crop and they do it best?
Because if you were going to plant anything, easy to maintain and high-yield produce like tomatoes and cucumbers is much more likely to save you money and taste better because it's fresh and not dried like saffron?

Just because it's the most expensive spice doesn't mean you should grow it. Grow something else you use a lot of and splurge on harder to grow herbs and spices.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 8 04:45:39 2018 No.11443654 >>11431395 Best post in thread. Good job anon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 8 09:52:49 2018 No.11444376 >>11443638 I doubt it. If it was really that great tasting it'd be added to everything the way salt, mayo, or ketchup is.

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