Luxury ingredients?

Further, I genuinely prefer cheap cuts of meat cooked expertly and over a long time. I've had 100+$ ribeye/filet mignon steaks that were usually underwhelming.

>>9409561
Truffles great.
Get them as near to the source as possible, prices/markups vary wildly.
Also the size of the things affects pricing a lot, smaller are generally cheaper.
Can be frozen too if you get some good bulk deals.

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REAL Saffron
$2,000 to $10,000 a pound

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>>9409561
Im fairly new to cooking, Ive only been doing a dish a day for about a year now, before that less.

When things like truffles come up, they undeniably impart a special flavor. Are they ever worth the cost? I dont think so. Someone cooking with cheap ingredients and practical spices and herbs can make dishes equally good or better without the stupid high costs.
Now dont get me wrong, i think someone whos a master chef and specifically wants their flavor to include saffron or whatever should and the dish would be a special unique thing certainly. I just dont ever see that being worth the cost unless you have a special memory or meaning or experience you wish ti give someone else and the only way is with that 100$ meal, which feels contradictory to me.
Maybe its because I live a humble life.

>>9409561
its not worth the money. its just scarcer not better than other ingredients.

it's entirely possible another thing you love will go extinct or become scarce somehow like peanuts and theyll become 2000 bitcoins per pound, and people will pay it because they miss that delicious peanut taste and it "undeniably imparts an irreplaceable flavour"

>>9409673
So less than ~1 dollar per gram, nigga you don't snort coke by the pound.

>>9409673
It's affordable because you use fractions of grams for everything. I have tons of high quality imported saffron and use it in everything and still haven't gotten close to using it all.

>>9409673
>Make real saffron chicken
>Excited to taste end result
>Chicken smells like flowers and tastes like nothing
>Make pizza

All great chefs know the real luxury ingredient is high quality cocaine. If you can get it it's worth it.

>>9409561
Black truffles are a meme. White truffles are for real rich people.

>>9412545
Retard.