Indonesian Saffron

There's lots of fake saffron around. Except that stuff doesn't even look like saffron.

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That looks like wood chips or something.
And that much saffron would cost a fortune no matter where it was grown.

>>9341422
This. That's not even saffron.

That much genuine saffron would be worth thousands of dollars.

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>>9341416

Looks like your parents got swindled, looks exactly like the cheap trash shit they sell to retarded tourists in every third world shithole market.

It's safflower.

>>9341416
My parents had brought this shit from India, it looks very similar. Not the same kind of saffron as we know in the West, but it's close.

There is a very distinct saffrony taste, but not as strong as the usual stuff , so don't hesitate to be heavy handed.

I used it to make boat loads of saffron rice, and white fish in creamy saffron leek sauce. However after one week, all the frangranve and taste were gone, couldn't experiment more.

>>9341435
i dont think its a cheat as much as its a mistranslation

in spanish/latin cooking safflower is used to colour( a cheaper replacment for expensive saffron) but in spanish both sound similar and the translations are often flipped

saffron doesn't grow in indonesia, jesus christ op. have your parents committed because they obviously can't look after themselves at their advanced age any longer

safflower is basically cheap ass, watered down saffron. use it in saffron rice - it's decent enough, but nowhere near as good

>>9342890
correct. may provide color, but no flavor. i worked at Peets in the 80s, they sold saffron, and we bagged it from a 1 pound metal tin. thats right, i had access to up to a pound of saffron. oceans 11 anyone?

>>9341416
your parents are literally retarded

saffron is grown in like fucking iran and shit you nigger