A FUCKING LEAF

[Anonymous No.7544242]

Does tossing a fucking leaf into your soup/dish actually make a difference in terms of taste, or is bay leaf just a big meme? I feel like 99% of people won't be able to tell whether or not bay leaf was added to a dish.

[Anonymous No.7544245]

Such an original thread, OP.

Such lazy shitposting.

[Anonymous No.7544250]

>>7544242

[Anonymous No.7544261]

If you can't tell whether a bay leaf has been added to a dish, you're either using way too many condiments, or your palate is dull as shit.

Personally I don't like the taste.

[Anonymous No.7544265]

Fresh or dried? My family always uses dried bay leaves and the fuckers break apart during cooking and I end up picking bits of leaf out of my meal and it blows.

[Anonymous No.7544271]

>>7544265

Bay leaves shouldn't be breaking apart.

It sounds like you're using stuff that's old as fuck, or hasn't been stored properly. Probably the same reason this dumb "bay leaves don't add flavor" shitposting began.

[Anonymous No.7544272]

>>7544265
What kind of old-ass bay leaves are you using? they are almost indestructible when dried.

[Anonymous No.7544426]

It can make a difference, but people exaggerate its greatness.

Also, the leaves themselves can be quite tasty when eaten by themselves after the stew/chili/whatever is done.

[Anonymous No.7544432]

>>7544426

>people exaggerate its greatness.

who

who exaggerates the greatness of fucking bay leaves

this post is just a further demonstration that for any fucking thing there'll be someone on 4chan calling it overrated, fuck

[Anonymous No.7544437]

>>7544271

this, 100%.

[Anonymous No.7544441]

I usually stick 5-6 in my stocks, it really makes the aroma come out.

[Anonymous No.7544462]

>>7544432
I like, and use bay leaves frequently, but it's rarely ever a case of food going from decent to"HOLY FUCK ON A STICK THIS IS THE BEST THING IN THE HISTORY OF EVER", like some people make it out to be.

[Anonymous No.7544465]

>>7544462

what fucking recent ex-troglodytes are you fraternising with to hear 'HOLY FUCK ON A STICK THIS IS THE BEST THING IN THE HISTORY OF EVER' said about fucking bay leaves?

where are you pulling this shit from?

[None !2Code3TV3M No.7544475]

bayleaves are nice but unless you make a tonne of soup all the time there is literally no reason to buy them or else you'll end up with ancient bayleaves since grocery stores and shit don't exactly pay attention to them

generally give them a pass for inconvenience as far as home cooking goes, but I do like the flavour and will pick some up when doing an event

>>7544426
you really aren't supposed to swallow them, not because of the 'bay leaves are poisonous' meme but because the dried ones are basically scraping everything on their way down and out.
if you're eating fresh you're fine I guess

>>7544462
maybe the rest of your pot is just poopy water
you cant really fix that

[Anonymous No.7544482]

>buying dried bay leaves at the grocery store

I think I see the problem

[Anonymous No.7544520]

>>7544271
This. Dried herbs are never as good as fresh, but bey leaves are pretty sturdy. The downside of this is people assuming they last forever, which they do not. Adding really old bay leaves to a dish accomplishes nothing. Throw them away and source some fresher ones.

[Anonymous No.7544527]

>>7544250
>meme drink
>just because I'm the only one who drinks it doesn't mean it's bad!

[Anonymous No.7544536]

>>7544465
Literally no human being, other than you, has said that about bay leaves at any point in history.

This thread is pathetic. I wish people would stop treating /ck/ like /v/ or /r9k/.

[Anonymous No.7544540]

>>7544536
Ment to quote >>7544462 on that.

[Anonymous No.7544552]

>>7544271
I have 3yr old bay leaves that I picked and dried myself, they never break apart.
>>7544441
How many litres/quarts of stock liquid do you start out and end up with? That's a lot of bay leaf.
>>7544475
They're not just for soup, add them whenever you make rice and sauces.

[None !2Code3TV3M No.7544564]

>>7544552
some sauces makes sense but I don't honestly make very many sauces these days.

but why rice and what sort of rice dish?
am I missing out on something worth mentioning or are you just using it as a garnish

[Anonymous No.7544566]

>>7544271
>>7544265
Until I ran out a few months ago, I'd been using a store of bay leaves that I literally inherited from my father, which we'd been using for probably 15 years, and they never fell apart. Those leaves must have been old as fucking hell, and probably not dried properly.

[Anonymous No.7544580]

>>7544564
It adds flavor to rice, goes well with just about every rice out there. Add bay leaf with the water, get it to boil, add rice. Do it next time you make a plain rice to see if you like the flavor.

[Anonymous No.7544598]

>>7544441

>it really makes the aroma come out.

Yes, the aroma of bay leaf will definitely come out and you won't be able to taste anything else.

[Anonymous No.7544602]

>>7544527
>Meme drink

The fuck are you talking about? Fucking everyone drinks tea in some form.

[Anonymous No.7544607]

>>7544552
>>7544598

My stock pot is 20 quart, I use the right amount of leaves for it.

[Anonymous No.7544624]

>>7544602
> I drink it so that means everyone does!
No.

[Anonymous No.7544650]

Whats the best way to get maximum Bay flavour from a Bay leaf? Agreed with everyone here that bay gets surpassed by pretty much everything else in a normal recipe. It's similar to dill or parsley in that way.

[Anonymous No.7544660]

>>7544650
Just get fresh leaves instead of the dried crap in the 99cent spice section.

The flavor is pretty strong, the only way it would get covered up is if the leaves themselves are shit quality.

[Anonymous No.7544692]

Let's talk about the superior herb instead.

[None !2Code3TV3M No.7544711]

>>7544580
but rice can be flavoured with just about anything

I'll try it later today most likely since I probably have some leaves around from the holidays still but I'm pretty skeptical it'll be any better than most of the classic whateverleftoveringredientisthere

[Anonymous No.7544719]

>>7544607
Ok, sounds more reasonable then.

[Anonymous No.7544721]

Another meme thread. Fuck off, OP.

[Anonymous No.7544723]

>>7544242
OP confirmed for having no palette or sense of taste

[Anonymous No.7544727]

>>7544624
A lot of people the world over drink tea. I'm one of them, so is that other anon. Go back to /b/ or better yet 9gag where people might actually be more receptive to your shitty posts

[Anonymous No.7544769]

>>7544727
>a lot of people do it so it must be good!
>2 people like it so that means the world!
>9gag
>being this aware of 9gags content
I think it is you who needs to go to 9gag, sir.

[Anonymous No.7545093]

>>7544769
literally no one has implied any of those things, you're just in a perpetually bad mood because your life is shit and you're lonely and being anonymously invidious on an taiwanese basket-weaving forum is the only thing you know how to do that gives you any satisfaction.

[Anonymous No.7545143]

>>7545093
>t. booty blasted tea sipster

[Anonymous No.7545155]

>>7545143

not the bootyblasted tea sipper but what's wrong with tea?

[Anonymous No.7545182]

>>7544692

wrong picture i fixed it for you

excited for my herb garden/tomatoes and making some dope salsa

[Anonymous No.7545190]

>>7545155
Nothing really, it's just funny

[Anonymous No.7546091]

>>7545093

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En__V0oEJsU

[Anonymous No.7546183]

>>7545182

cilantro is not even on the same plane of existence

jesus I bet you're some kind of american, kill you're selve

[Anonymous No.7546191]

OP here, I'm just trying to get good information. I think it's reasonable to be skeptical about a lot of cooking techniques that other people accept without really considering. Has anyone even done a double-blind study on bay leaves? I doubt it.

Like, I was watching this other cooking video, and it insisted that you had to chop the onions with a knife and that if I used my Slap Chop™ they would somehow be ruined, leaking gross chemicals that would throw the flavor profile out of balance. The fuck?

[Anonymous No.7546218]

>>7544242
IT'S JUST CRUNCHY WATER.

[Anonymous No.7546266]

>>7546218
Non-iceberg lettuce is very nutritious.

This is what's in the ten pounds of romaine I had for dinner.

[Anonymous No.7546382]

>>7544462
>>7544465
>>7544536

You guys have never made Chile Colorado. Bay leaf is absolutely essential in that dish and will take it from a boring pile of chile con carne into an excellent meal for brown people

[Anonymous No.7546414]

I swear to god this is the new version of reposting the maddox rant about onions

If you have any doubt as to what bay leaf does for a dish, take a bunch of them and pressure cook them for ten minutes, then smell the water, and drink the water, and compare that to regular water. That's the bay leaf smell. That's the bay leaf taste. It's very real, you will see nobody is making it up.

The thing is unlike many herbs where there's basically no such thing as too much (see: thyme), it's not something you want in huge amounts, which is why when the recipes are followed normally, it doesn't really jump out at you. Otherwise your dish ends up smelling like vicks vapo-rub.

[Anonymous No.7546442]

>>7546414
I really did eat no onions for a few years when I got weird about them.

[Anonymous No.7546465]

>>7546382

>you've never had this very regionally specific dish
>you can't possibly understand the difference a bay leaf or two can make to a recipe

Bay leaves are used in all sorts of different foods. People saying they can't tell the difference are just shitposting at this point.

[Anonymous No.7546593]

>>7544242
is this a serious thread?


it's a kind of spice just like any other, is your pallate dead?

I have bay leaves, curry leaves, kafir lime leaves
about a dousen kinds of barks

[Anonymous No.7546614]

>>7546593
Palate, not pallate for god's sake.

Just stomp on some kittens, it would be less unpleasant to look at

[Anonymous No.7546626]

>>7546614

>just stomp on some kittens
>tfw just a dousen kinds of barks and no bite

[Anonymous No.7546639]

>>7546414
>No such thing as too much thyme

I bet you're a great cook.

[Anonymous No.7546641]

>>7546626
fucking so good
top fucking kek

my spelling is shite these days, I don't read enough

[Anonymous No.7546663]

>>7546465
I'm gonna 100% genuine honest with you: I have not tasted the difference of having bay leaves in my meal.

I have no reason to lie, so describe me the taste of bay leaves to me so I can try to figure it out next time

[Anonymous No.7546710]

>>7546663
in the interests of answering your question I am eating a fresh bay leaf from my tree by itself

it has a light but pervading sweetness, mainly aromatic
a bit like cinamon on the nose
a little bitter orange rind
quiet a bit of thyme

[Anonymous No.7546749]

>>7546663
The challenge here is that you can't just add it to your egg quarters when experimenting. The flavor can't be fried in and needs to be simmered out. You could try making two plain cauliflower or cabbage soups, one with bay leaf and one without. That might help you see the difference for yourself.

[Anonymous No.7547544]

>>7544475
Fuck off old man

[Anonymous No.7547563]

>>7544769
>shitposting this much
>on /ck/
/pol/ and /r/ are far more fulfilling.

[Anonymous No.7547575]

>>7544426
>eating leaves

Did someone fuck a sheep in your family?

[Anonymous No.7547638]

>>7544624
Yeah, wars weren't fought over it or anything