More than 150,000 crocus flowers are essential to produce one kilogram of

[@raejiisa4948]

I love putting saffron in my rice, chicken and soups. It's got a unique flavor that's actually great in many things, just hard to part with a few strands considering its cost and how hard it is to find at most grocery stores. I hope to keep seeing it.

[@UnderTheMillkyWay]

Saffron rice is my favorite type of rice as well for seasoning. Next would be Jasmine.

[@L17_8]

Jesus loves you ❤️ please turn to him and repent before it's too late. The end times described in the Bible are already happening in the world.

[@christymoua6931]

Do you mind what it tastes like alone? I never understood the hype of saffron and want to try it!

[@f4Rl34ng3Igrl]

@@L17_8begone prostelytizer

[@shanazblacksun7201]

I put it in my Gumbo, jambalaya, curry , my soap , yellow rice, crab stew, crawfish eutoufee

[@arfriedman4577]

The flower saffron comes from is beautiful.

[@jonslg240]

$10k/KG, basically like other drugs lol.. But 1 gram for 10 bucks is a great deal to make a dish taste excellent.. compared to the same price for something addictive people end up needing 3 grams a day of just to feel normal

[@arfriedman4577]

@@jonslg240 I bought saffron a few times many years ago. Maybe I didn't put enough in my dish to taste it. I only think I used 3 to 6 strands for my rice.

[@MeSue-n2p]

It grows around the yard of my new cabin. Not enough maybe 100, but the little purple flowers are sooo cute!

[@arfriedman4577]

@@MeSue-n2p that's awesome

[@MikeH-sg2ue]

Crocuses are such cool flowers! Even Saffron is!

[@nasaekeh2527]

Who looked at the flower and said " this strands will make good flavour" which ended up putting the world in a frenzy of buying saffron

[@Kyle-nm1kh]

Someone trying to make money by selling to rich people

[@Зол.Э]

As far as I know, it was first studied as a dye. This is not unusual - many flower cores can stain you with pollen - it's just that crocuses have the most well-transmitted color. And then someone just decided to touch up the food and as a result noticed that the taste improved.

[@Momcat_maggiefelinefan]

I have a tiny box with real saffron that my friend brought me back from Asia, where he worked for 5 years. It was very inexpensive there compared to that bought in China Town in Toronto. Such a tiny amount of saffron for so many dollars! I treasure my tiny box of the best ingredient to my oriental cooking. My friend benefits from his kindness regularly. Saffron rice is just the beginning! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦

[@L17_8]

Jesus loves you ❤️ please turn to him and repent before it's too late. The end times described in the Bible are already happening in the world.

[@Momcat_maggiefelinefan]

@@L17_8 Please keep religion out of the equation. It’s not relevant. God and good saffron have nothing to do with it!

[@catsdogswoof3968]

please its unrelated and they have been hapeeing for thousands of years@@L17_8

[@catsdogswoof3968]

wait do you use like one stand

[@Momcat_maggiefelinefan]

@@catsdogswoof3968 Whatever the recipe calls for. 3-4 strands for my saffron rice recipe.

[@Fujoshi1412]

Those flowers are so pretty though

[@bonnitaclaus2286]

I’ve always kept some saffron, I loved the flavor and one of those to certain dishes. This year I lost my brother, I inherited his cookbooks, call mom, kitchen, utensils, and pots and pans, and his spices. His refrigerator he had a Messenger with containers of saffron. Some of them he purchased on his international trips. Now my concern is that they will lose their bouquet if I do not use them. And I all, but one is still sealed, I know one of them was purchased I believe in France.

[@KiMoKo9787]

In many places this flower will grow, grows in the desert where it's farmed and says zones 5-8 but people here in Florida can grow it too. You can buy the bulbs easily online

[@loverlyredhead]

There's a big new farm in far West Texas growing it. It's not all that hard to grow (not sure why the video said it is)

[@eduardochavacano]

Vanilla is the second most expensive

[@Tfong114]

Omggg no its gold

[@bustedkeaton]

​@@Tfong114Omggg gold's not a spice

[@Tfong114]

@@bustedkeaton Its copper

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

Which is heavier? A kilo of gold or a kilo of vanilla?

[@Зол.Э]

​@@ianmacfarlane1241They will weigh the same in any case. You probably mean the price per kilogram.

[@erikad0511]

Whew, picking lil stem(s) from over 150k flowers just for a kilo...that truly is delicate and probably very tiresome work....

[@bellapatel910]

Yes...I use saffron in my homemade sweets...but very carefully...cause of very expensive...& try to grow too...Ty...

[@nayyeralizadeh4211]

عالی موفق باشید❤❤

[@megandonaldson4635]

Great share

[@deneanetucker374]

Wow. Knw this is an expensive spice. Love the flavour too💜

[@lbrowning2543]

The squirrels really liked the saffron bulbs I tried to grow this year!

[@shekujalloh551]

We used to play with these flowers as kids They were so plentiful in our community we didn’t even know their use other than playing with them and destroying them..and now this video is trying to make me regret it😂

[@oghash4912]

Lol 😆

[@connorkeegan3905]

That lady’s level of focus with the magnifier is hilarious

[@RawanaTiger]

Every Indian house has stock of Safron. Safron is applied to gods as part of bathing ritual, used in deserts, fed to expecting mom's in the 8-9th month, women apply on their face to look pretty.

[@ghost_anna_reads787]

My grandmother grew this in Germany. Those babies are still growing. The color and flavor just isnt as intense. Still works in cakes.

[@rachelroberts2008]

My grandmother grew this because of the flowers.

[@amgguy4319]

Hope they can use the purple flower petals for something too...

[@L17_8]

Jesus loves you ❤️ please turn to him and repent before it's too late. The end times described in the Bible are already happening in the world.

[@angelad.8944]

Yah, they are edible. Used for health products and tea mostly.

[@Thirteen13s]

@@L17_8ALL HAIL a beautiful life of SATANTICISM!!!🤘😈🤘

[@saheramulla2277]

Kashmir ❤

[@timothynechville8326]

That's ok, it grows fine in the US

[@healdiseasenow]

has massive eye benefits

[@arthuragustinusrianto4991]

Wow...Thats Good Info for now...

[@YAWSSSSSS]

Iranians love saffron and we're very proud of our cuisine that incorporates this delicious spice

[@carolynt8864]

learn something new everyday!

[@AlexAnom420]

saffron grows quite well here in the Middle East Coast US...😆

[@Зол.Э]

It grows well and I have it in the Arctic Circle, the point here is how well it stretches, how much it blooms, the intensity of taste and color depends on the climate and of course the established processing process itself. It grows in my garden, but in my country there is absolutely no chance to start its production - it's just not profitable where not in initially ideal conditions.

[@crapizio]

Great work as always! Please credit your video/image/audio sources with links in the description and/or a pinned comment.

[@gr8potatosaurusofthunderfart]

$10000/kg ... R u sure? 🤨... I mean its expensive for sure but 10k?

[@tracycrider1245]

Only a couple of strands are 20 or better so, yeah. 10k

[@boriss.861]

There is a reason Saffron Walden is called that.

[@debbiecurtis4021]

I'm growing my own

[@mjmcinnesincanada]

Wild!😅

[@Om1qq]

Saffron of India

[@hamzabeigh7552]

Kashmir

[@7moonman1]

"We had to lock it up at the spice factory!"

[@doralevitt2879]

What does it taste like??

[@livefortoday2127]

what does it taste like? dumb question but honestly

[@BenjaminISmith]

It's color?- Perfectly replicated with turmeric. It's taste?- like the smell of plastic packing material.

[@ZeenathKauser]

🙋🏻‍♀️♥👍

[@Lelines0]

I always wondered. Why don't they just sell the flower and let whoever is cooking pull out the stigma since you don't need a lot for a dish.

[@Зол.Э]

You can easily buy them! They are popular flowers for gardens - a bunch of colors and drawings, but growing them at home for the sake of spice or dye is basically useless. For even the simplest recipes, it should be divided into several flowers + it does not bloom for a long time and you will get one flower from one bulb, but they multiply slowly and the bulbs themselves are not cheap and may not even bloom if they do not like the soil or climate. It is also grown there because the climate significantly affects the intensity of the spice/dye and it is there that the ideal conditions for growing products are initially created. But you may well try! It will definitely be beautiful. :)

[@CUBETechie]

What happens with the crocuss when Safran was Harvested?

[@Danger-rb1cy]

Damn my boy said the shit we got in our cabinets is fake the disrespect 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Indianroad34]

Ummmm..... What is fake saffron? Is there a fake saffron?

[@angelad.8944]

Real saffron will have an amazing floral scent and flavor along with an earthy undertone. Fake is bland and can be chemically tasting from the dyes etc. The color of fake tends to be um less rich or less natural. That one is hard to explain. Once you see and smell and taste real, you will know from then on which is which.

[@ZOCCOK]

Usually 'Fake' Saffron is just normal Low Quality Saffron mixed in with other stuff (Adulteraterants, can be anything). Had the opportunity to taste the difference between high quality saffron (Only made of red strands) and Medium/Low Quality Saffron (Red and Yellow Strands) side by side in a spice market. The difference is pretty big especially when tasting it pure with just warm milk and some sugar. High quality saffron has a very intense smell, Whereas the medium/low quality saffron has the same smell just at a lower intensity.

[@NYN_000]

But what's the difference even if you include it or not in your food? I see a single difference of $50k.

[@Purple_crustacean]

Why don't they just breed them to eventually get more stigmas

[@Зол.Э]

They do this, but crocus himself does not really like changes in his "ideal" form. This is slow and affects the quality greatly.

[@TheMistAnchorite]

But what to do with it ???

[@skullrose8985]

I watched that programme with garden Ramsey,& two other chefs travelling around,I think they were in France & visited a small place where women grew & picked this beautiful flower,the place where they worked looked peaceful & tranquil..there was more about this place but I can't remember what was said.. I'm sure crocus grow in England,Easter.. Take care🙏🏻💜🙏🏻💜

[@courtadbobtail600]

How could it be fake? What is fake saffron made of?

[@BV4551Pl]

“The thing you have in the fridge, could be fake🗿” 👁️👃👁️ me w/ imported zafron from directly Iran😂😂😂

[@earth9544]

climate change ruined the video

[@angiecoers6255]

That's how they sell it. If it's just for the color, there's plenty to make that yellow for less. You guys have been duped. Tired of people getting taken advantage of and slavery work.

[@darthlaurel]

Whatever would we do without being able to blame the chimera "climate change" for every single problem. Getting really sick of it.

[@raak4070]

Me too, we should stop letting oil companies ruin the world so we don't have to hear about it anymore

[@alexthomson6430]

150,000 for 1 gram or 1kg. Which one is it?

[@weeabunny4428]

150 for one gram, 150,000 for 1kg

[@BD-bditw]

What a great upload. Thanks. But totally ruined by being in CRAP Vertical.. Why not redo in proper video mode and dump this unwatchable.

[@navajoauckland6003]

I wouldn't eat anything that comes from countries where the people look malnourished and on skid row, thats like if LA downtown homeless started growing lettuce

[@wyssmaster]

The only thing you're paying MORE for just the tip

[@oghash4912]

Smoked that shit once when i was a dumb kid, not sure if it was the real stuff or not but it made me sick for like a month with a chest cold off of like one hit 🤣😆

[@imac786]

Video poster you are fake

[@James-oc2zb]

Machines can do it. The problem is it's located in 3rd world countries

[@Зол.Э]

That's the thing- cars can't. The flower is extremely delicate and its contents too. Any scrapping is a minus of the cost. Therefore, collecting flowers and processing is hard manual labor. Do you really think that if someone had a way out of paying less, they wouldn't have done it?

[@venkybabu8140]

So what they are waste dead body

[@maine-ly]

First (# 1034)

[@mohammadhashemi1771]

iran not only produces 90% of the global production they by far produce the highest quality of saffron

[@evonne315]

Looks like drug production.

[@rskat501]

Very similar

[@ZOCCOK]

Tastes better though

[@nayyeralizadeh4211]

@zafaranhushmand