/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12752045
Adds aroma and flavor just like any other herb.

>>12752045

for me it is a kill switch every time I have tasted the bay leaf I have killed

>>12752045
Literally nothing. You hace to fish the fucking thing out later and it'll probably shatter into a million pieces.

>>12752045
umami

>>12752045
>bay leaf
red pasta sauce has bay leaf on it .. so u get the idea

>>12752192
What am I looking at here

>>12752045
remove frog

>every time a jewtuber says "dont forget the bayleaf"

>>12752511
Google's AI can see the monstrosities all around us that our brains mercifully refuse to perceive.

>>12752045
A lot.

OP is confirmed British

>>12752045
Leave it be, mods. It's not hurting anyone.

>>12752045
Consider a situation where people blind taste recipes and note which one they prefer. Consider further a situation where people statistically prefer one over the other but cannot consistently articulate exactly why.

Bay leaf is a leading cause of "I prefer it but I don't know exactly why". There are a number of publications that have documented this.

Just 100 bay leafs. What’s a good recipe? Can I put 25 i one dish?

>>12752045
You don't eat it, because bay leaf tastes like a leaf. But when you cook with it, it imparts some aromatics. That means you won't taste it, but you will smell it.

The problem is most people use dried bay leaf from a jar. It's far better to get it fresh, and you have to use it immediately, or it loses it's aroma. It really is insane. If you hate this, just use more thyme.

>>12755699
Get

>>12752192
This image is turning me homusecxual.

Thanks MK-Ultra!

>>12752045
To me the flavor is a subtle blend of thyme and basil flavor, but not as strong.

>>12756071
Yes. Do it and report back.

>>12752045
quit smoking and your sense of smell will come back

>>12756085
You can easily grow bay leaf trees at home. You keep them outdoors all year if you live in a very mild climate or bring them indoors from November-April depending on where you live (avoid frost).

They are fairly drought tolerant and a a few leaves, snipped fresh off the tree add a lot of flavor to rice and stews.

I got mine at the farmers market and it has been going for over a year now.

People kept making threads about how bay leaf is placebo so I bought a tree. If you aren't getting enough flavor, add more leaves.

>>12752192
This image confuses my brain a lot because I cant put it under any category.

It looks familiar yet I cant figure it out
Each time I look at it I feel a different kind of weirdness

>>12756518
I told you 'bout that MK-Ultra, bro!

>>12756057
Do you have any of this publication on hand, I'm curious

>>12752045
it adds flavor, stupid redditfrog poster

>>12752045
>>bay leaf
>What does this do to a dish exactly?
hold one up to my nose, crack it in half, in half again, inhale, and lick it. That's the flavor, just like it smells and tastes.

Bay leaf, aka bay laurel is in the laurel family. Bay is somewhere, to me, if I had to describe it, somewhere between the piney rosemary,, an evergreen, and a sweet marjoram, which is in the oregano family, and parsley, and thyme. There's a hit of medicinal mintiness too, sometimes, which is it's similarity to camphor or eucalyptus.

Bay could be used fresh if you had a tree, and though you can dry it and use safely after a year or two, it gets less resinous and kind of bland. If you don't think you taste much from it, you should use double the amount, because leaf size varies from tiny to quite huge, but also, you could have older stuff. Buy a new batch.

I most often use it tucked into a rice n beans or bean soup while in the simmering stage, beef stews, paprikash stews. I wouldn't make Cuban black beans or cajun red beans without it. "Old Bay Seasoning" in the metal can has a bit of ground up bay and of course it's good on fries or chips, as well as seafood

>>12756660
tl;dr

Bay leef BIGSUCC

>>12756057
If you chew on fresh wood it's that sort of standing in the middle of the forest with the fresh air flavour but >>12756071
without the menthol and other shit

>>12752045
you have to cook it for 3+ hours to get maximum effect from dried bay leaves

>>12752045
The word bay leaf gave me Vietnam flashbacks of how fucking stupid women are. God I hate them all. I'm gay btw

>>12752045
Makes it more expensive

>>12752045
it fucking ends up in my bowl every fucking time

>>12758593
>a single leaf is in my bowl
>how do i solve this incredibly complex problem?
>can someone help?

>>12756610
Only informally. America’s Test Kitchen, for example, does not include bay leaf unless tasters of the dish like it more than without. They’re trying to find the minimal, best-rated recipe so they don’t start with it. That being said, the number of dishes it ends up in is fucking astounding and the reasoning is always so vague— “tasters liked the herbal notes”, etc.

>>12758127
>white women

>>12752511
Looks like a fucked up tardigrade.

>tfw i have a bay tree and a kaffir lime tree

>>12758608
it wouldn't bother me if it didn't happen every single fucking time

WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

So you're all kinda dumb mother rapists, right? Why don't you people just die? The world would be better if you died.

>>12752161
Maybe if you buy garbage bay leaves

>>12758812
Just fish it out you fucking child, how autistic do you have to be that taking out a bay lead is a big deal? Be grateful it flavored your dish.

>>12752045
I'm sick of all the retarded shitpissers on this site. I just want a hobby forum where I can talk about hobbies but also call someone a nigger. You fucking redditards who feel the need to make endless, repetitive "humor and lol so ebic troll XDDD" threads need to hang yourself with three bullets to the head right now.

>>12752048