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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: ST.George on February 28, 2015, 06:01:01 PM

Title: How good is saffron? (Not THAT good)
Post by: ST.George on February 28, 2015, 06:01:01 PM

In Woolies the other day searching 4 ingredients for my 1st attempt at a seafood paella, I was hunting 4 saffron to colour and enhance flavour of this hopefully delicious dish.
  :eat
Found it in the herbs aisle in the form of a small plastic vial containing about 20 fine threads. The price was about $18. The Aussie product made from imported saffron was priced at $1,410 per 10 grams.
Therefore the kilo price is $141,000.  :eek
 :o This is almost as expensive as politicians' brains which r infinitely xpensive as not enough can b found 2 register weight on any known scale.
Ask Tony - he's a Rhodes scholar!  :crazy
 :H Anyway, the meal was a flop coz I burned the arborio rice base by not timing properly - bloody home brew beer 2 blame again - just as well I didn't bother with the saffron!
 :fp

Title: Re: How good is saffron? (Not THAT good)
Post by: Kev Murphy on February 28, 2015, 06:29:09 PM

Um....are you sure that it wasn't a mis-interpretation by the press, about Tony being a Road Scholar?

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s277/cool_blue_ice_2002/979159-tony-abbott.jpg)

Title: Re: How good is saffron? (Not THAT good)
Post by: Aussieboy on February 28, 2015, 07:10:28 PM

Once you see what goes into growing harvesting and preparing saffron you can almost understand the price.

Title: Re: How good is saffron? (Not THAT good)
Post by: Brock on February 28, 2015, 07:22:40 PM

Yes,

Saffron strands are more expensive that gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mna7iUIP2fM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mna7iUIP2fM)

Title: Re: How good is saffron? (Not THAT good)
Post by: Pocket STocker on March 02, 2015, 06:28:23 PM

It's expensive stuff, but oh so very nice  ;-*

Title: Re: How good is saffron? (Not THAT good)
Post by: saaz on March 03, 2015, 10:14:09 AM

If you are going to use it, you have to get the dish right. Time to try another seafood risotto again I think...

Title: Re: How good is saffron? (Not THAT good)
Post by: Kev Murphy on March 03, 2015, 10:18:59 AM

I will pass on the taste test... any flavoring product that costs more than the dish it is applied to, is way out of my budget.