This absolutely does something. Got a few branches from my father's garden and tossed them in a lentil soup. Huge diff
Didn't capture the cooking, will next time but niggers, this smells amazing
Apparently fresh is 10x better than old dried leaves.
>>20844159My tenant's got a plant in her front garden, should I go and steal some?
>>20844162You should definitely ask. I had a bay tree for a number of years and can confirm it's much better fresh. If you're good with plants you could even just ask for a cutting and grow your own.
>>20844159I took them from the tree and dried for roughly 3 weeks. Absolute game changer>>20844162Ask>>20844173This
Some of you know my kitchen. Gonna lay down now. Drunk as fuck. Next time I'll make a cook a long thread
>>20844162ask you fucking pest
>>20844153>>20844162I think the biggest reason people think bay leaves don't do anything is that they have an old jar or bag in the cupboard that has been sitting there for years and they throw one dusty leaf in a huge pot of something then wonder why it doesn't taste very different. There's a reason this plant was so reveared that Greeks and Romans made crowns out of it.
>>20844173>>20844186>>20844213We aren't on good terms right now.
>>20844222Maybe be a less shitty landlord and maybe your tenant will give you tasty leaves.
>>20844155Was is des für Schinkenwurst da drin? Pfui Deifel.. Wenn dann einfach Saiten oder Speck. Ansonsten gut
>>20844153Of course it does something you fucking muppet. How the fuck are people letting themselves be gaslit into thinking that a flavorful leaf put into water somehow doesn't do anything?
>>20844153I think they get a bad rap because people have been led to believe they are ultra-potent by recipes only calling for a single bay leaf or two in giant 6-8 Qt recipes of pots of soup, stew, beans, etc. You really do need at least like 6-7 of them for the quantity of cooking most people engage in with these types of recipes that end up being made a lot of on the weekend and get eaten as leftovers for the next week. https://www.amazon.com/Bay-Leaf-Organic-EarthWise-Aromatics/dp/B07TK2G183A giant half pound bag is 10$ on Amazon that probably has 200 or so individual leaves inside, whereas most grocery stores sell them in jars with like 6-12 each for $5 that makes shoppers instinctual want to ration/skimp on them, then get the impression that they don't do anything for being such a pricey/niche ingredient.
>>20844153I like making tea with it. It's great for indigestion and gases
>>20844222STEAL STEAL STEAL
>>20844222>We aren't on good terms>So I guess I'll just steal from them
