What the fuck do bay leaves actually do?
you goofy bitch
they add a little je ne sais quoi
add subtle depth of flavor
>>21822051steep some in a glass of water and taste for yourself
>>21822059don't do this it makes mustard gas!
>>21822053>>21822056>>21822058>>21822059Alright then geniuses what does star anise do
>>21822064bay leaf I can understand cause it's pretty subtle, but anise has a very strong and recognizable taste. literally just put it in your mouth
>>21822064star sphincter
>lol i'll just keep posting it
>>21822051tastes like a leaf>>21822053fpbp>>21822064prolapses your mom
>>21822070Sorry I was trolling. I usually get euphoric and playful after I've sucked half a dozen cock. I'm a little bit of a cunt
>>21822078just a little?
>>21822086Well, I only pretended that star anise didn't taste of anything and although "alright then geniuses" makes me sound like a cock it doesn't mean I'm a full cunt
>>21822051Gets in your mouth along with a bite of spaghetti sauce and you have to spit it out.
They add a vague eucalyptus or menthol herbaceous note.Most dried bay leaves these days are terrible quality and imported from India.You have to add like 5 of them to taste anything
>>21822078it's ok I kind of thought you were but it's hard to tell if people are trolling here because so many posters are genuinely fucking braindead that it's safer to just treat everything like it's serious
>>21822051If you have to ask it is beyond your comprehension, tastelet
>>21822051They add earthy herbaceous notes and catch out tastelets.
>>21822051Umami tea. Just buy a tree and plant it, and it pays for itself inside 20 meals.
Use fresh ones and they have a much stronger flavor.
>>21822064It makes anise in your anus
ok anons genuine question for those who have boiled pork with a bay leaf or two, what do you do with the water that was used to boil the pork? do you use it for stock? i tried using it for stock but it was nasty and made me fucking gag
>>21822051>I posted it again! I am so funny.
Cramming up your fat buttcheeks
>>21822051Keeps the intrusive thoughts at bay
Archeologists 1000 years from now will see hundreds of threads asking about bay leaves and they'll think we were retarded
>>21822064thats a caltrop, used in ancient times to deter infantry via area denial
>>21822450Caltrops are for cavalry you cooklet
>>21822051they add bay.>>21822064it makes things taste fucking awful.
>>21822111trolls are braindead as well, anon.trolling died in 2015 when we got trump elected.
>>21822064I have a cousin (i haven't seen him in a long time) I remember I asked him at a wedding years ago if he wanted to eat anise and he's like "I don't like anise, anise is nasty" and I don't know why of all things he's said I remember that the most.
>>21822566Rent free huh?>but muh election touristsNo words, just silence, please
>>21822566Old man spiel: trolling used to actually mean something. It originally comes from the term for using a moving fishing line. You trolled online by taking increasingly ridiculous positions until the fish finally lost the hook and you had a good cackle about it.Now trolling means "being a shithead online".
Apparently they make for a really interesting thread that we need a couple of times a week.
>>21822574>he doesn't know
>>21822575People still do that constantly. It's just everyone takes ridiculous positions unironically nowadays so it's difficult to tell who is just baiting or who is actually being retarded. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter.
>>21822603>People still do that constantly.Oh yeah, absolutely.. But most people use it as a kind of quantum shitheaddery: you say something to try to make an internet stranger mad, and if you get called out on being a dumbass you fall back on it being just a troll. Or you outright harass someone and that's somehow just trolling.
>>21822613>Or you outright harass someone and that's somehow just trolling.Yeah, at some point "flaming" and "trolling" kind of merged together. Most trolls from back in the day would sometimes crack and resort to flaming before they'd get banned, anyway. It's not worth caring about at all.
>>21822621>It's not worth caring about at all.I don't suppose I do, no. Some of the trolling I got up to in the early days was pretty nasty stuff. Like convincing obviously desperate people I was willing to buy their kidney. I'm not gonna defend that stuff now.
>>21822051it's not that they don't do anything, but rather that they do nothing.
>>21822613>you say something to try to make an internet stranger madthis is called dumbassery.>and if you get called out on being a dumbass you fall back on it being just a trollthere is no difference between those two statuses, anon.as i said, trolling died in 2015.nobody will ever top /pol/'s greatest achievement.
>>21822645Are we not in agreement? Except that I don't pay any attention to /pol/ so I wouldn't know about that.
mmmmm that cool air feels good on my nigger skin
The flavor from dried bay leaves becomes more noticeable if you pulverize them in a spice grinder and add them to a dish like you would any other powdered spice. I like to grind them up with cloves and peppercorns and add them to curry powder. Bay leaf powder is also quite tasty as a spice rub on chicken or beef.
>>21822110That's the wrong kind of bay leaf dumb dumbCulinary bay leaves don't have any menthol in them. If you're in California and pick a local "bay leaf" it will have menthol. I know this because my mom thought she was slick by picking her own and making stews taste like vicks vapo-rub
>>21822427I think I need to use more bayleaf then.
>>21822923I put them in a stock like a normal person. I don't pulverise my parsley. I will try straight ground bay leaves to make sure, OK, but I'm sceptical.
>>21822966When I say pulverize I just mean to grind it into a powder.
Useless food decoration.
>>21822051Ay bay bay
>>21823006Nobody puts bay leaves on the finished dish, dumbfuck.
Bay leaf just adds a very subtle non-descript "herbs" flavor to whatever you're cooking.when I add a tablespoon of this seasoning to my cooking, it makes the presence of bay leaf indiscernible. Therefore it does something, but not anything special. you just sense it as "some type of herb"
>>21823073the thing with bay leaf is you won't really notice it's there, but you will notice when it's missing. you might not immediately tell that it's bay leaf that's missing specifically, but the flavour will feel lacking. it's subtle, but it provides an important backbone.
>>21823073forgot my pic
>>21823080yeah I still put bay leaf in my chicken noodle soup because i want an herb flavor without a bunch of little green bits floating around everywhere.i guess that's the use of bay leaf. when you want to taste herbs without seeing them. kinda like White pepper
>>21822103Your supposed to take that out you know.
>>21822051>What the fuck do bay leaves actually do?Get you through the early game of the best gen while being the most underrated starter mid evolution. DUH
>>21823073>>21823081I'm very much in the habit of adding "a tablespoon of garlic and herb seasoning to my cooking". I don't like, pick my herbs or anything. I don't evaluate my salt. I don't quantify pepper like some kind of nerd.
>>21823201>he doesn't make his herbs defend their thesisI'm sure your cooking tastes *pffffffffffftttt* just fine.
>>21823858It's not that garlic italian herb mixes or whatever are bad, friend. It's that they're the same thing, every time, apparently a tablespoon at once. I couldn't cook that way.
>>21822051>Bay leaves are rich inessential oils, primarily 1,8-cineole (eucalyptol), along with significant amounts of α-terpinyl acetate, linalool, sabinene, and α-pinene, contributing to their aroma and bioactive properties like antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial effects. Other key compounds include eugenol, methyl eugenol, flavonoids, tannins, and minerals like Vitamin A, iron, and potassium, with exact percentages varying by species and growing conditions.
>>21822058>add subtle depth of flavorWhat flavor?
>>21825443Bay
>>21825443Leaf Bae
>>21822393>boiled porkYou are the nasty thing here, anon.
>>21822051Cook a meal with them then cook that same meal without them and if you can't taste a difference you're a cooklet and thus on the inferior side of our species so go ahead and stop using them
>>21822064It's for when you want to taste jagermeister in whatever you're cooking. I use it in pasta sauce.
>>21822393you always throw away the water used for parboiling meats
First time I used a fresh bay leaf I was shocked how much flavour it added to the dish. I now no longer buy dried bay leaves from the store, I grow my own and dry those or pick fresh from the branches. Huge difference.
They aromatize the eschaton
