In fairness, I’m not sure anyone knows if bay leaves even do anything.
… what?
Make a dish twice, once without the bay leaf. There is an obvious difference. It’s fine to not like the taste of any particular spice but saying there is none is sort of crazy?
He’s joking, it’s people that don’t cook often don’t know what the difference is
Just smell it (not just bay leaves but whatever). If it has a smell, that aroma can be infused into cooking, though you’ll want to make sure it’s edible before just throwing it into dishes.
And you might need to sauté them for a bit (also called tempering) to infuse that aroma into oil, since it’s not all water soluable.
I wasn’t sure myself, so i made a “tea” out of bay leaves to check, and i can confirm that they do in fact have a pretty distinct flavor.
This is smart, I don’t know when to put it in so I should get familiar with the taste
Might as well just boil up a handful of grass from the local park, about the same.
Unbayleafable.
came here to make a silly comment. i can see im not needed here.
Keep an eye out for another spice-related pun opportunity, your thyme will come.
Your presence is welcome, thanks for cumin.
Do you mean thanks for cumin?
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LOL
That is fucking magnificent. If you’re not a dad your talent is being wasted on us mere mortals.
You won the internet today
I can’t bay leaf that happened to her.
I worked with a dude who loved “ramen” but had never had it from a restaurant. He didn’t seem like he knew how to cook particularly well, and I’m not sure if he’d ever even left the suburbs he was born in.
One day he was talking about how excited he was to go to a real ramen shop over the weekend. So next time I see him I asked how it went. He sighed and said he got a veggie ramen because he found out the meat ones were “made with bone” and he was grossed out by it. I could only say “of course, that’s how you make good soup.” Then I had to explain how you make stock or split pea with ham soup, etc. I think I ruined soup for him.
Vegetarian soups are still delicious though. Soup is just awesome all around
I can’t downvote you for an honestly expressed opinion, but soup is a disappointing meal.
I’m not saying soups aren’t nice. But if you offer me, eg, a French Onion Soup (one of the greatest soups there is) and you offer me… a rack of ribs, or a steak, or blackened chicken with dirty rice, soup is coming second every day of the week.
certified banger
That’s where food comes from - trees, bushes, grasses, dirt.
Also - if Minecraft has taught me anything - punching animals until some chops appear in my inventory.
She is a dangerous type of white person.
We call them Karen
Guess this person is unfamiliar with seasoning and the fact that bay leaves are used for flavor.
Wait, they go to a bay and pick up leaves to put in food? Urgh, yuck!
Why can’t they just use the aromatic herb from a laurel tree?bay leaves are bitter af
You’re not supposed to eat it
They are just for flavor not for eating. Can’t recommend eating cloves or allspice berries either.
That’s why you take them out afterwards
Or warn people if you forget. “If you find a leaf, don’t eat it. It’s for flavour, but not pleasant to eat on its own.” Texture isn’t great either iirc (but I could be wrong, as I was a kid the last time I tried eating one).
And also so they don’t tear up your insides.
21 first century woman that doesn’t know how to cook? Checks out
i think it’s more significant that she’s a white american who desn’t know what goes into food than that she’s a she
Oh dam, I gave her the benefit of the doubt. Many recipes call for bay leaves. But I think you may be right 🤔.
Cherry on top would have been if her name was Laurel
Well yeah bay leaves do usually get removed before serving
That just means your meal was freshly picked from the burrito tree. Geesh, some people…
Wait til they find out about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuffed_leaves
Chipotle is really resting on its laurels.
I assume that’s for garnish
The saddest part to me is how little more and more people know about cooking. Each generation seems to know less and less about the basics and rely more and more on fast food and restaurants to survive.
What are you talking about? Every generation in the US knows more about food than the ones before.
Boomers were raised on canned/frozen nonsense and basically had no variety. Their vegetables were underseasoned and overcooked. Their pickiness about cuts of meat left many delicious parts of the animals underappreciated scraps. They knew each fruit as basically one cultivar, like how all apples were the utterly mediocre red delicious. Even their bread was boring.
Their restaurant scene was pathetic, with Italian American food representing the pinnacle of exotic cuisine. Any immigrant opening a restaurant for American diners would have to carefully water down their traditions to fit American tastes and the American supply chain.
No thank you, I’d never travel back in time to eat or cook the way people did 50 years ago. Food is better now, and it’s largely because today’s cooks and diners know way more about food than people did back then.
Shit the acceleration of public cooking knowledge, ingredient availability, cuisine variety, food media, etc since the 90s has been incredible.
Yeah maybe the average person doesn’t know how to work with lemongrasss or whatever but you can look it up in a minute and people are doing that.
The upvoted comment you replied to is so demonstrably false. Sometimes Lemmy is just like Reddit where you come across a topic you’re actually familiar with and see all the bullshit comments for what they are.
My grandma boils vegetables like nobody’s business.
Yeah I mean nowadays I feel like something like hello fresh or whatever meal delivery service (that still requires you to cook) is a big convenient treat. Delivery is so goddamn expensive, I ain’t made of money!
I can’t speak for everyone, but since the COVID inflation I’ve swore off most fastfood and exclusively cook for myself now. I’ve learned baking bread, making stocks, processing meat, canning, and so much more. It’s so much healthier, tastier, and more affordable. I think folks are coming back to cooking for themselves. It may not be the majority, but there are many of us that have mostly swore off eating out.
Just as intended.
