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[–] ___@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Well yeah bay leaves do usually get removed before serving

[–] pnelego@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)

In fairness, I’m not sure anyone knows if bay leaves even do anything.

my person, it absolutely does i love them very much, they are one of my favourite spices

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... 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

[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bay leaf does provide a subtle earthy flavour, but it is also an anti fungal. I guess your left overs will stay edible a bit longer.

It also looks exactly the same as a clove leaf. A shop sold me a bag of mis-labelled clove leafs and my Bolognese that evening tasted most strange

[–] pnelego@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Ah, yeah, the kind of cooking our household does is usually pretty strong favour wise (lots of South Asian cooking), it’s probably why neither my wife or I have ever noticed it.

Maybe if when make Italian food we should use it :)

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 day ago

While I support the message of never eating at Chipotle again, she's doing it for the wrong reasons.

I don't eat at Chipotle because they were bought by private equity and subsequently enshittified to further enrich someone who already had more wealth than could be spent in a lifetime.

She doesn't eat at Chipotle because she found a bayleaf in her burrito bowl...

[–] dewritoninja@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago

Bay leaves, at this point is just a cultural thing

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 184 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] texture@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world 80 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I can't bay leaf that happened to her.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This thread is just going to be peppered with puns now.

[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ain't nobody got thyme for that.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Incorrect. I love pun threads, they are mint...

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cummin mate, that's enough with the puns

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I appreciate you addressing it gingerly. Even the punniest Portlanders would give these puns the old oregaNO. 😬

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[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Don't have to be salty about it.

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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's where food comes from - trees, bushes, grasses, dirt.

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[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cherry on top would have been if her name was Laurel

[–] Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Guess this person is unfamiliar with seasoning and the fact that bay leaves are used for flavor.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 176 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She is a dangerous type of white person.

We call them Karen

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 123 points 2 days ago

That just means your meal was freshly picked from the burrito tree. Geesh, some people…

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

That leaf was conceived in wedlock.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 95 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Chipotle is really resting on its laurels.

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I assume that's for garnish

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 2 points 1 day ago

Ah! The vegetarian plate!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Man, just wait until someone tells her where the rest of food comes from

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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (9 children)

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.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

In Brazil's version of the Shark Tank TV show, they sometimes call for guest "sharks" to show up besides the regular hosts. Once, the founder of China in Box, Brazil's largest Chinese fast food chain (and one of the first in general) was there.

So the participant shows up and his pitch was a device he invented for peeling garlic faster at home. It's basically a blender motor, but with attachments to vibrate the garlic against the container rather than cut through it, so the skin peels off and the garlic is ready for usage. After the pitch, of course, they ask the hosts if they want to invest into their company.

So the Chinese food guy says "oh no, no way I'm investing into that, it's a kitchen appliance - in ten years, nobody will have a kitchen in their homes, they'll use delivery apps for every meal, they won't ever need any cooking apparatus"

And honestly his comments still fill me with rage every single time.

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Complaining will not keep future leaves at Bay.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 days ago (11 children)

The cook really should be picking the bay leaves out. No one wants to eat a bay leaf.

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[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

have you ever had bay leaves from a shoe?

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