• Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    952·
    9 months ago

    If you don’t think a bay leaf is doing anything, go ahead and do an A/B test next time you cook. Enjoy the revelation.

      • Squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        15·
        9 months ago

        Or just get a plant - they’re pretty hardy things! Get a little baby bay tree for your balcony or doorstep! Just make sure you bring them in over winter if it gets below freezing regularly or it’ll go into hibernation

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      It’s easier to just make bayleaf tea and taste it. This also works to show the contrast between fresh bay leaves and dried, and decent dried bay leaves and super old stuff that’s been sitting at the back of your spice cupboard for 10 years.

      • oaklandnative@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        9 months ago

        Pretty much everything you cook should have salt added or it will taste bland. Salt brings out other flavors. There’s a reason “under seasoned” is an expression that often simply means “under salted.”

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    9 months ago

    Bay leaf is a subtle flavor that makes soups and stew taste “fuller”, if that makes any sense. If you feel like the soup/stew you made taste like it’s missing something, add some bay leaf and try again.

            • Cabrio@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              9 months ago

              English in the Future - Steven Gearhart

              Directors at Daimler Benz and Chrysler have announced an agreement to adopt English as the preferred language for communications, rather than German, which was another possibility.

              As part of the negotiations, directors at Chrysler conceded that English spelling has some room for improvement and have accepted a five-year phase-in plan. In the first year, “s” will be used instead of the soft “c”. Also, the hard “c” will be replased with “k”. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but komputers have one less letter.

              There will be growing kompany enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replased by “f”. This will make words like “fotograf” 20 persent shorter.

              In the third year, DaimlerKhrysler akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible.

              DaimlerKhrysler will enkourage the removal of double letters, whish have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent “e”'s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

              By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps sush as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” by “v”.

              During ze fifz year, ze unesesary “o” kan be droped from vords kontaining “o”, and similar shanges vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

              After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis, and employes vil find it ezi to kommunikat viz eash ozer.

              Ov kors al supliers vil be expekted to us zis for all busines komunikation via DaimlerKhrysler.

              Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

              • OrderedChaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                9 months ago

                I feel like this is already happening with people texting. Lol nice one. I do think the s and c swap “shange” doesn’t make as much sense. English is awkward as it is so new words might need to be made. I’d honestly rather learn a new language that was built from the ground up that included what we have learned from the world’s languages.

                • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  Every few years I think of that idea, but then we might need to also account for the ease of learning for people with different language bases and the acceptance rate (because of all the nationalistic bs imo)

  • TomMasz@kbin.social
    221·
    9 months ago

    I choked on one the chef forgot to remove in a restaurant once. I’d say they’re not just floating there, they’re waiting.

    • wieson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      Remove? Are you the princess of china or what? It was a tradition in my home, whoever got the bay leaf got a letter from a far away relative and could read out an inventive message.

  • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
    101·
    9 months ago

    If your bay leaves do nothing to the flavor of the dish, then they’re too old and should be replaced.

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1448·
    9 months ago

    It does worse than fuck all. It actively sabotages the end product by being a desiccated hunk of tree bark in the finished product if it isn’t removed.