C/D - Bay Leaves for cooking are not at all useful

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Bay Leaves are totally unnecessary and I think there is no reason to even deal with them.
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Nah, bay leaves are a great addition to any slow cook recipe like stews and pot roasts.
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It is always a fascinating thing hearing the debate about bay leaves on a conceptual level.
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Crimson_Corsair posted...
Nah, bay leaves are a great addition to any slow cook recipe like stews and pot roasts.
Exactly, dey impart a lot of flavor, i am picturing dat flavor in my mind as I type dis.
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Theyll shatter teeth dont forget to remove them they really arent edible
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The fuck is a bay leaf
Common sense says it may not taste good, but it'll make a turd.
What is their flavor? Like I just had some homemade soup where I put in a bay leaf because it told me to. I couldn't tell you what that flavor is.
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I see so many recipes talking about using a single bay leaf in a giant pot.
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Smackems posted...
The fuck is a bay leaf

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I honestly can't tell the difference.
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I don't trust any leaf that stays rock hard after simmering for 8 hours.
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Smackems posted...
The fuck is a bay leaf
Its a leaf from a bay laurel tree. Font of usless knowledge I am now, that I no longer need it.

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cjsdowg posted...
I honestly can't tell the difference.

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I think they do contribute to dishes but I use them so seldom they just go bad on my shelf so I dont mess with them
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Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...
What is their flavor?

Its an herbal flavor. I dont know how to be any more exact.
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theAteam posted...
I think they do contribute to dishes but I use them so seldom they just go bad on my shelf so I dont mess with them

They can go bad? I've had the same bag for years and they look exactly the same as new. They're like the McDonald's french fries of herbs
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LeoRavus posted...
They can go bad? I've had the same bag for years and they look exactly the same as new. They're like the McDonald's french fries of herbs
Aromatics don't go bad by their looks, they lose their smell.
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I just had two bay leaves in my soup bowl, YESTERDAY!!!!

its for homemade soup. Just adds a small bit of flavor.

I think they are overrated, because you have to PICK them
out.

But my wife uses them in soup all the time. every time I think.
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ellis123 posted...
Aromatics don't go bad by their looks, they lose their smell.
Exactly, you wont get sick if you use dem, you just wont get any flavor.
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mustachedmystic posted...
Exactly, you wont get sick if you use dem, you just wont get any flavor.
Oh

Well that explains it

My mom's must have always been old.
RetuenOfDevsman posted...
Oh

Well that explains it

My mom's must have always been old.
One way to go about it is to compare a dish with it and a dish without it. Even people that actively deny bay leaves can consistently find the one that had leaves added when cooking it.
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Ehhh, they are very savory and really pair well with other spices. I mean you can not use them and you probably wouldn't miss them especially if you're not cooking things over long periods of time.

Its really more of adding an extra "oomph" to recipes. I use them when i slow cook red sauces, soups, or stews in my slow cooker.
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VampireCoyote posted...
Theyll shatter teeth dont forget to remove them they really arent edible

How do you shatter teeth on a paper thin, flexible sliver of plant matter? They are at worst a nuisance when you notice you have a leaf in your mouth and then you spit it out.
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deny. they are useful in a big pot. i assume. i cannot attest to this myself.

however, fuck getting the bay leaf in your bowl. I swear i get an inordinate amount of bay leaves in my soup/chili/etc.
leafs rule
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they add flavor
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Smackems posted...
The fuck is a bay leaf

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Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...
I am apparently VERY much in the wrong here so far.
But not alone. Bay leaves not working/being useful is a super old "home cook versus professional" debate that is bizarrely popular/heated. Unsurprisingly the professional cooks, who espouse that bay leaves work, have the most evidence backing them up. What with it being their jobs and all.
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ellis123 posted...
But not alone. Bay leaves not working/being useful is a super old "home cook versus professional" debate that is bizarrely popular/heated. Unsurprisingly the professional cooks, who espouse that bay leaves work, have the most evidence backing them up. What with it being their jobs and all.

well there's not much point in using them in something small you can cook in 20-45 mins at home. they need time to release the flavor, like tea leaves
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thronedfire2 posted...
well there's not much point in using them in something small you can cook in 20-45 mins at home. they need time to release the flavor, like tea leaves
That is one of the explained reasons as to why the home cooks could be wrong, yes.
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I had no idea da nature, and proper use of bay leaves was controversial. My mother used dem all da time.
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gotta think about the flavor profile
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I have no idea what their flavor is but every dish I've ever seen one in was a banger.
The tannins in bay lleaves help to keep other vegetables crisp during fermentation. Not sure if they serve a similar purpose for soups but I imagine so because you really don't get much flavor from a single dried leaf. I recommend trying fresh bay leaf sometime if you want a sense of the flavor and aroma they can impart.
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when i used to make crab cakes, the crab meat was bound with a bechamel. bechamel on its own is naturally pretty flavorless, and the only thing you could really taste about it was the bay leaf i put in it.
Well the way to test this is to just make two of the exact same recipe and include a few bay leaves in one but not the other. Blind taste test. Seems pretty simple to me. Personally I don't care enough to do this but if this is such a debate amongst chefs and such...
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The best way to tell what flavor they add is to just suck on one.
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cjsdowg posted...
I honestly can't tell the difference.
This. I've accidentally left out the bayleaf in a recipe and couldn't taste any difference.
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C, though I still use them because that's what I learned from my parents.
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Bay leaves aren't going to impart a super strong flavor on their own, and they're never going to be the dominant taste in any dish they're used in. But they do add something, and are definitely better used in stews or slow-cooked recipes such as pork shoulder. But if you're using a lot of stronger herbs then they're going to overpower it so much that you're not even going to notice it's there.

A couple of things you can try though to give yourself a better idea of what a bay leaf on its own adds to a dish is to either brew with some hot (not boiling) water, or put one in the next time you make some rice.

But also, make sure you're using some actually decent bay leaves. The ones you get in the cheap tins in the herbal aisle at a grocery store? Nu-huh, those are usually so overdried and poorly sealed that any chance they had at adding anything is pretty much gone. At the very least get some of the higher quality ones at the store, or go to a dedicated spice story like Penzeys or Savory (heck, go to them for all your spices and herbs, it's well worth it).
thekosmicfool posted...
How do you shatter teeth on a paper thin, flexible sliver of plant matter? They are at worst a nuisance when you notice you have a leaf in your mouth and then you spit it out.
How do you even fail to notice a four-inch leaf sticking out both sides of your spoon?
ellis123 posted...
But not alone. Bay leaves not working/being useful is a super old "home cook versus professional" debate that is bizarrely popular/heated. Unsurprisingly the professional cooks, who espouse that bay leaves work, have the most evidence backing them up. What with it being their jobs and all.
But the whole Internet can cook better than Gordon Ramsay and restaurants only exist for convenience and people who are unspeakably terrible at cooking

You cannot argue this the entire internet knows it's true
things i use bay leaves for:

gumbo
spaghetti
red beans & rice
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RetuenOfDevsman posted...
How do you even fail to notice a four-inch leaf sticking out both sides of your spoon?

That's a big-ass leaf; I've never gotten one that large in my food.
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RetuenOfDevsman posted...
four-inch leaf

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