Unbayleafable.
came here to make a silly comment. i can see im not needed here.
Your presence is welcome, thanks for cumin.
Do you mean thanks for cumin?
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
certified banger
I can’t downvote you for an honestly expressed opinion, but soup is a disappointing meal.
I respect your wrong opinion
She is a dangerous type of white person.
The cook really should be picking the bay leaves out. No one wants to eat a bay leaf.
While that is true, not recognizing a bayleaf is a sign of embarrassing stupidity.
ignorance, but yeah. Who hasn’t encountered a bay leaf by adulthood?
TBH I have no idea why bay leaves aren’t ground like other herbs — despite having spent my childhood watching my mom regularly put bay leaves in her cooking.
That might also be why I detect barely any taste in bay leaves.
Nah, you don’t want that. I don’t think the leaf would grind very well and it’s just supposed to be a hint of spice in the final dish.
I live in a country where ground bay leaf is a very common spice to use. It’s just another powdered spice in a jar or a bag like cinnamon or curry.
Huh. Maybe I’ll try it
Yeah this is pretty much where I’m at, her reaction seems pretty stupid but I would be a little annoyed if I had to pick a bay leaf out of my mouth.
Like a cat with a hairball.
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.
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.
I can’t bay leaf that happened to her.
I was hoping the Pun People would have stayed on Reddit. I haven’t missed scrolling through miles of puns before getting to real posts…
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
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
In the tea? I just stuck a leaf in a cup with water and microwaved it for a minute or two.
In food? I usually put it in as soon as I start the simmer on a liquid part of the dish. It takes a long while for the flavor to really become significant.
have you ever had bay leaves from a shoe?
I got a man-gina
Who cooks a shoe?
Old greg does
Who the fuck uses bay leaves in Mexican food?
Mexicans.
