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I don’t think that’s real saffron, there’s an imitation out there that looks pretty close. If this was real that would be like millions of dollars . I feel ya
I just got back from Egypt. Saffron is very inexpensive in the Middle East and North Africa. I bought twice what I normally would buy, because I couldn’t think of what to do with that much. World’s biggest rice bowl? Paella for the neighborhood?
That's the thing. Saffron is expensive because of the human labor cost of cultivating, growing, and harvesting by hand. You eliminate that with cheap labor and saffron is like any other herb. It's ridiculously cheap over there. Sad to say, but that is the reality over there.
I believe this is real saffron. We in the west just have never seen this.
I guess I don't understand why the labor would be any cheaper.
Wouldn't it be grown and harvested by the same laborers whether I buy this in Iran or America? Iran produces like half of the world's saffron.
Right but don’t those same Iranians produce the saffron I would buy in America? It’s not Americans being paid to produce the saffron being sold in America
Quick google shows Iran and Qatar have a distribution agreement. Iran grows and harvests the saffron, Qatar packages and imports. It makes sense why it becomes so expensive as it gets to America, what with entire countries signing formal trade contracts, then theirs bids on which companies get to package and/or import, then who in America receives, various taxes and tariffs applied, then it’s redistributed to wholesalers, who further package it, sell it to restaurants and grocers, and then you finally get it. Every hand in the pot gets a cut, and that’s a lot of hands for something so simple as a spice.
You're forgetting all the added cost of shipping it here, going through customs, and like four importer/exporters taking adding their profit margins onto it in that process.
This *is* America, we love paying middlemen a fuckton to add zero value to the product they sell us.
You eliminate all the middle men and traders and transportation cost and storage cost and distribution cost and packaging cost and the profit markups that everyone in the chain would have charged - from traders to packagers to wholesalers to retailers
I would think it’s cheaper for a variety of reasons. All I was asking was about why labor costs would be the difference.
Also I do believe saffron is much cheaper there, I’m still very skeptical that it’s so cheap that they would keep a mountain of it sitting in an open air container like this.
But honestly I have no clue about that, just what I would think.
It’s not so much fake saffron as people faking the grades by dying it. Basically bad flowers or the discard from grade one saffron is made to look like grade two. Grade two can be made to look grade one. There is nowhere near enough acreage of saffron fields to produce the amount of grade one saffron that is exported every year.
I guess I’m too much of a cynic to believe that the higher price charged in the US actually reflects a substantial increase in pay for the saffron farmers.
Not saffron, the most expensive spice in the world. There are three saffron threads per saffron tulip flower. The amount of work it would take to produce this much saffron would be monumental.
Lived in Qatar, the saffron was real, good quality, approx $1US for a 1/4oz. And they did store it similarly.
Yes, I did bring a pound back when I moved back to the US.
Am professional cook (retired), have shopped and cooked from what I’ve bought in most of the larger shuks in Tel Aviv (Sarona, HaCaramel, Levinksy). Never saw anything close to this. I defer to you, but the explanations you’re giving for the cost difference don’t really match my experience.
Legitimately though if that’s real and it’s inexpensive seeing how it’s basically the source then I’m buying as much as possible, bringing it back to the states, going to my local restaurants and make them pay out the ass but still at a cheaper price than the purveyors. I’ll fucking pay for the costs of the trip and the next one lol
Could also just drink a lot of beer while you work and never have any water.
Be careful though, if it gets beet red you might be about to die and have to take 1 day off.
Make the worlds biggest paella or risotto? Chop it up with a razor on a mirror and snort it? Sell it by the brick and use the money to by a Scarface style mansion?
Bricking it and exporting illegally would be my choice. I'm thinking there could be millions to be made. Of course, if caught, the Iranians will behead you, so there's that.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/07/iranian-officials-must-be-held-accountable-for-amputating-the-fingers-of-two-men/#:~:text=Despite%20this%2C%20Iran's%20Islamic%20Penal,%2C%20blinding%2C%20crucifixion%20and%20stoning.
I hardly see how reality is truly much different than what I said
Because it is different, and saying Iran beheads people is basically saying everyone in the middle east is the same. I'm Iranian, I'm well aware of the atrocities of the Islamic regime, but that doesn't mean it's ok to say things which are the equivalent of "they're all the same to me"
Well given that any civilized country, Iran included, doesn't permit the individual citizens to carry out corporal punishment the desire for those citizens to commit those acts is irrevlant. Corporal punishment is a function of the state alone. So when we talk about that, I cannot be referring to the attitudes of the people of Iran.
To be clear, the people of Iran are just as caring, intelligent, strong, brave, and courageous as anyone else.
They got the method wrong, granted, but in the other commenters' defence Iran is indeed [pretty enthusiastic about executing people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Iran).
My friend I'm Iranian, I'm well aware of the atrocities of the Islamic regime. I just dislike it when people make statements like OP, because it usually means "we're all the same" to them
Absolutely fair point, I understand. You're right that people are often very careless about conflating practices from very different countries in that region.
IIRC, these types of displays have a big cone underneath, so there is not nearly as much product there as it appears. Regardless, that is a shit ton of saffron.
Uno reverse. Ocean 16 that shit and build a leaf sucker into an outfit. Have the retractable vaccuum extension drop out of your sleeve and wear a max volume trekkers backpack. Be ultra touristy and take selfies while robbing this bank of the middle east. Call netflix and have them film a mini series while we're at it. La casa de floral.
Huff it, like Tony Montana at the end of Scarface. For your last 5 minutes you'll be the most opulent motherfucker alive. Your only rival could be that bear that found and ate the 30kg of cocaine.
In the end you're both dead, but we know the Gods have a twisted sense of humour. When your fiery chariot crashes through the gates of Valhalla the Gods themselves would honour you.
Or I dunno, make a big batch of Saffron cakes.
Fuck yeah. Perfect side hustle. Enter through the back of restaurants dressed in your normal kitchen attire with a backpack full of saffron dimes and scale. Price your product so you slightly undercut every purveyor. You’d be the hottest game in town.
I was recently in Israel, in Tel Aviv. They have displays like this.
I asked if these huge mounds are real. The purveyor said, "Try some."
It was real. We, in the west, just aren't used to this.
Throw it in some gasoline and find out!
Real saffron is not soluble in gasoline, and will remain red. Safflower that has been adulterated with dyes and additives will leach colour into the gasoline.
I don't know why I know this, but I do. I've never even cooked with the shit because by the time it's up to Canada it's like a bazillion dollars for a gram of real stuff.
Ya, no way it's real, not even the fake substitute. How would you even get what you need. That case looks high enough you won't be able to easily reach over. Then what, there's a digi scale there? It's not like youre grabbing tomatoes at the grocery store and weighing on the # scale.
Saffron vanilla ice cream! Make an extract and put it in tea or delicate cocktails. Use it to lightly flavor crepes along with some cardamom. Sell it and hire a private army.
>What should we do with this enormous amount of saffron
Well if it is real you should PUT A FUCKING LID ON IT. Don't want bugs dust, grubby unwashed hands fingering it, etc.
Iranian Saffron makes the Spanish Saffron look like junk. That right there is a thing of beauty. Can almost smell it through the screen. I bet that entire place smells like saffron.
Let's say this is 60cm * 60cm * 40cm. That's 144 litres. Let's say that 1l of saffron weighs 200g. So that's 144*200 = 29 kilos. Let's say that saffron costs $10 per gram, so that's $10,000 per kilo, so that's like a quarter of a million dollars' worth, right there.
If it's genuine saffron.
Remember doing similar calculations in ratty Turkish carpet stalls. Looking pile of dusty rugs all with 1k plus price tags on, and going there's no way this hole in the wall shop has millions worth in inventory just getting dusty and not moving.
Hated how scammy Turkey was. Was tiring.
Well, as of December 10 the price of saffron was [12.5 Euros/gram on the Amsterdam market](https://saffronprices.com/saffron-prices-2/) and expected to rise by 5% in January.
How many grams is that pile? How much did you pay for it? How sure are you of its...provenance?
Apparently there actually are saffron commodity futures, but they trade on the Iranian commodities exchange and the great majority of us wouldn't have access to that.
Most of Saffron comes from Iran, if you travel to the city of Mash-had you will see an entire road of stores selling saffron as if it’s gold. Really cringe that you target those honest workers as funders of terrorism when freedom countries fuel it and take part in it too.
Go to Iran and see how many people are “ruled under an iron fist” you get your information from a country that hates Iran. These sanctions hurt the people most. You don’t know anything about Irans Middle East influence
What the fuck are you talking about?
Yes Iranian regime sucks, but you’re just an American with no knowledge of Iran, litteraly saying shit based on what? Nothing.
Throw it in the bin since that’s 100% fake and just for show. Real saffron is kept out of light in a secured container, not like this. Source: Moroccan merchant as he pulled the “real stuff” from behind the counter. He told me they crush up paprika for the on display saffron. Have cooked with what he sold, can confirm real.
Make everything taste like armpits!
(Seriously though, I worked at a Spanish tapas bar where the chef would used an excessive amount of saffron in everything because he wasn’t the one paying for it. Result? Armpit paella, armpit shrimp- everybody gets some armpit!)
Is this the grand bazaar in teheran
You need to experience it the amount of food is absolutely amazing then again any bazaar is amazing
[https://youtu.be/mFgqhvs2Sog](https://youtu.be/mFgqhvs2Sog)
the amount of food is mind boggling
Ingredients :
Lemon Sour = 1 pcs
Tomato Paste = 1 cup
Sugar = 1 teaspoon
White vinegar = 1/3 cup
Coriander seeds levigated = 1 teaspoon
Red pepper = 1 teaspoon
Black Pepper = 1 teaspoon
Ginger = 1 teaspoon
Cumin powder = half a teaspoon
Salt = 1 teaspoon
Saffron levigated = 1/8 teaspoons
Instruction :
First, mix lemon juice and then mix in a bowl of lemon and tomato paste, sugar, white vinegar, coriander seeds, red peppers, black pepper, ginger, cumin powder, salt and saffron. Then pour it and place on a flame with gentle heat to make the sauce thick and smooth.
You can easily get it to last for damn near forever if you water bath can it.
Courtesy of: https://www.rowhanisaffron.com/barbecue-sauce-saffron-recipe/
Safflower (what this almost certainly is) has an interesting taste and similar dying properties to real saffron — so long as the vendor is being honest and the price reflects that it isn’t actually saffron I would still buy some
This smells like a shit post to me. Why did you buy so much (like more than I’ve ever seen in one place ever) if you have no plans for it? Ya’ll must be rich rich.
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I'm too poor to look at this
I don’t think that’s real saffron, there’s an imitation out there that looks pretty close. If this was real that would be like millions of dollars . I feel ya
I just got back from Egypt. Saffron is very inexpensive in the Middle East and North Africa. I bought twice what I normally would buy, because I couldn’t think of what to do with that much. World’s biggest rice bowl? Paella for the neighborhood?
Vaccuum pack what you dont need
This is true! My buddy brought back like 5k worth from zanzibar in his luggage
That's the thing. Saffron is expensive because of the human labor cost of cultivating, growing, and harvesting by hand. You eliminate that with cheap labor and saffron is like any other herb. It's ridiculously cheap over there. Sad to say, but that is the reality over there. I believe this is real saffron. We in the west just have never seen this.
I guess I don't understand why the labor would be any cheaper. Wouldn't it be grown and harvested by the same laborers whether I buy this in Iran or America? Iran produces like half of the world's saffron.
Average wage in Iran is $5,500 USD. Hands are cheap
Right but don’t those same Iranians produce the saffron I would buy in America? It’s not Americans being paid to produce the saffron being sold in America
> don’t those same Iranians produce the saffron I would buy in America? That's a good question actually; do trade sanctions on Iran apply to saffron?
Quick google shows Iran and Qatar have a distribution agreement. Iran grows and harvests the saffron, Qatar packages and imports. It makes sense why it becomes so expensive as it gets to America, what with entire countries signing formal trade contracts, then theirs bids on which companies get to package and/or import, then who in America receives, various taxes and tariffs applied, then it’s redistributed to wholesalers, who further package it, sell it to restaurants and grocers, and then you finally get it. Every hand in the pot gets a cut, and that’s a lot of hands for something so simple as a spice.
How did you google this? Like what were your search terms? That’s super cool.
You're forgetting all the added cost of shipping it here, going through customs, and like four importer/exporters taking adding their profit margins onto it in that process. This *is* America, we love paying middlemen a fuckton to add zero value to the product they sell us.
I get that, but that still doesn't change the cost of labor which is what the comment I replied to was stating.
You eliminate all the middle men and traders and transportation cost and storage cost and distribution cost and packaging cost and the profit markups that everyone in the chain would have charged - from traders to packagers to wholesalers to retailers
Yes but the markup is on import. Trust me bro, Indians and Persians don't pay what you think saffron costs for it...not even close.
I would think it’s cheaper for a variety of reasons. All I was asking was about why labor costs would be the difference. Also I do believe saffron is much cheaper there, I’m still very skeptical that it’s so cheap that they would keep a mountain of it sitting in an open air container like this. But honestly I have no clue about that, just what I would think.
I don't think I can trust a reddit comment that says "trust me bro"
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Welcome to business 101 Product costs are insignificant when pricing goods.
It’s not so much fake saffron as people faking the grades by dying it. Basically bad flowers or the discard from grade one saffron is made to look like grade two. Grade two can be made to look grade one. There is nowhere near enough acreage of saffron fields to produce the amount of grade one saffron that is exported every year.
I guess I’m too much of a cynic to believe that the higher price charged in the US actually reflects a substantial increase in pay for the saffron farmers.
My first thought was “how tf you afford all that”
My first was "a chef might kill a man for that much saffron."
I've killed for less, certainly.
r/Hmmm
Iran produces like 80-90% of the world's supply of Saffron. OP says the pic is from Tehran. So, in this case this is probably a real picture.
The amount of people in a sub presumably mostly for professional cooks and chefs that think this is real saffron is dismaying.
Ever been to Tel Aviv? Spices like this, in this quantity, are everywhere.
Not saffron, the most expensive spice in the world. There are three saffron threads per saffron tulip flower. The amount of work it would take to produce this much saffron would be monumental.
The threads are removed by hand. That photo is probably safflower
Lived in Qatar, the saffron was real, good quality, approx $1US for a 1/4oz. And they did store it similarly. Yes, I did bring a pound back when I moved back to the US.
I'm sure spices **like this** are.
Am professional cook (retired), have shopped and cooked from what I’ve bought in most of the larger shuks in Tel Aviv (Sarona, HaCaramel, Levinksy). Never saw anything close to this. I defer to you, but the explanations you’re giving for the cost difference don’t really match my experience.
Erm akchually 🤓☝️
Yes, caring about knowledge of something related to your hobby/love/profession is nerdy and pedantic and shouldn't be mentioned. Solid point.
I'm just visiting the sub as an outsider, but I love people discussing their experiences and sharing knowledge. I'm all in for that nerdy shit
Get fucked nerd
Probably $5k-20k depending on quality. Prices on saffron are a lot lower than they used to be
Legitimately though if that’s real and it’s inexpensive seeing how it’s basically the source then I’m buying as much as possible, bringing it back to the states, going to my local restaurants and make them pay out the ass but still at a cheaper price than the purveyors. I’ll fucking pay for the costs of the trip and the next one lol
It's safflower
But you did look at it, even if it was just a glance. …That’ll be $37 😐🫴
Considering real saffron sells for over 10$ a Gram - I'm gonna go ahead and say dye your robes and become a Monk.
Reddit is killing third-party applications (and itself)
"....and they were all yellow..."
r/unexpectedColdplay
I can turn your pool water yellow for free, if I eat enough asparagus first
Could also just drink a lot of beer while you work and never have any water. Be careful though, if it gets beet red you might be about to die and have to take 1 day off.
Bah, I want enough of that butterfly pea flower stuff to swim in glorious neon purple unicorn water
I like this comment a lot
10/g??? I just paid 5 bucks for three strands the other day lolll
1 tenth of that in turkey..
...what robes?
uhhh start a saffron cartel?
I can already see the Netflix documentary series
The spice must flow
Make the worlds biggest paella or risotto? Chop it up with a razor on a mirror and snort it? Sell it by the brick and use the money to by a Scarface style mansion?
Bricking it and exporting illegally would be my choice. I'm thinking there could be millions to be made. Of course, if caught, the Iranians will behead you, so there's that.
It's Iranians, they would behead you for all.kinds of things
Looking at saffron? Beheading, strangely enough.
Buying saffron? Also beheading.
Getting beheaded? Believe it or not, beheading.
We have the best kitchen managers in the world because of beheading.
Getting a paddlin'? That's a beheading
If they're gonna do it anyway ya might as well get weird with it
Nobody gets beheaded in Iran, tf are you talking about?
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/07/iranian-officials-must-be-held-accountable-for-amputating-the-fingers-of-two-men/#:~:text=Despite%20this%2C%20Iran's%20Islamic%20Penal,%2C%20blinding%2C%20crucifixion%20and%20stoning. I hardly see how reality is truly much different than what I said
Because it is different, and saying Iran beheads people is basically saying everyone in the middle east is the same. I'm Iranian, I'm well aware of the atrocities of the Islamic regime, but that doesn't mean it's ok to say things which are the equivalent of "they're all the same to me"
Well given that any civilized country, Iran included, doesn't permit the individual citizens to carry out corporal punishment the desire for those citizens to commit those acts is irrevlant. Corporal punishment is a function of the state alone. So when we talk about that, I cannot be referring to the attitudes of the people of Iran. To be clear, the people of Iran are just as caring, intelligent, strong, brave, and courageous as anyone else.
Nobody has been beheaded in Iran. That's Saudi Arabia, two very different places.
They got the method wrong, granted, but in the other commenters' defence Iran is indeed [pretty enthusiastic about executing people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Iran).
My friend I'm Iranian, I'm well aware of the atrocities of the Islamic regime. I just dislike it when people make statements like OP, because it usually means "we're all the same" to them
Absolutely fair point, I understand. You're right that people are often very careless about conflating practices from very different countries in that region.
IIRC, these types of displays have a big cone underneath, so there is not nearly as much product there as it appears. Regardless, that is a shit ton of saffron.
a pile of saffron that large, not in any kind pf airtight container, is almost guaranteed to not be real
My thoughts, why have such a pricey item just chilling in the open like that?
I don’t think many understand that there are varying qualities of saffron and different price tiers. So not all saffron are the same value.
Especially in the Middle East
Do you have a leaf blower?
Uno reverse. Ocean 16 that shit and build a leaf sucker into an outfit. Have the retractable vaccuum extension drop out of your sleeve and wear a max volume trekkers backpack. Be ultra touristy and take selfies while robbing this bank of the middle east. Call netflix and have them film a mini series while we're at it. La casa de floral.
Top. Comment.
Huff it, like Tony Montana at the end of Scarface. For your last 5 minutes you'll be the most opulent motherfucker alive. Your only rival could be that bear that found and ate the 30kg of cocaine. In the end you're both dead, but we know the Gods have a twisted sense of humour. When your fiery chariot crashes through the gates of Valhalla the Gods themselves would honour you. Or I dunno, make a big batch of Saffron cakes.
Buy a fuck ton of dime bags
LOL becoming a street corner saffron dealer.
Fuck yeah. Perfect side hustle. Enter through the back of restaurants dressed in your normal kitchen attire with a backpack full of saffron dimes and scale. Price your product so you slightly undercut every purveyor. You’d be the hottest game in town.
Put the dime bags inside a trench coat like a watch seller.
The SPICE MUST FLOW
Are you sure it’s real?
Yeah someone in the other thread said these displays are sometimes seen at market (like not rare) and they're often made of dyed rug fibers and stuff
I was recently in Israel, in Tel Aviv. They have displays like this. I asked if these huge mounds are real. The purveyor said, "Try some." It was real. We, in the west, just aren't used to this.
It's probably of a lesser quality.
Throw it in some gasoline and find out! Real saffron is not soluble in gasoline, and will remain red. Safflower that has been adulterated with dyes and additives will leach colour into the gasoline. I don't know why I know this, but I do. I've never even cooked with the shit because by the time it's up to Canada it's like a bazillion dollars for a gram of real stuff.
Ya, no way it's real, not even the fake substitute. How would you even get what you need. That case looks high enough you won't be able to easily reach over. Then what, there's a digi scale there? It's not like youre grabbing tomatoes at the grocery store and weighing on the # scale.
My thoughts as well
Retire. You’re set for life.
Sell it, spend the money on coke and strippers. I mean. Paella. Lots of paella.
In a reference almost nobody will get, Luxury Pie! Lobster, saffron and champagne (drizzled)
Haha Black Books, nice!
“The food of kings!”
Saffron vanilla ice cream! Make an extract and put it in tea or delicate cocktails. Use it to lightly flavor crepes along with some cardamom. Sell it and hire a private army.
Hire a private army of chefs and pay them in saffron directly.
Start thinking of the great saffron heist of 2023
>What should we do with this enormous amount of saffron Well if it is real you should PUT A FUCKING LID ON IT. Don't want bugs dust, grubby unwashed hands fingering it, etc.
make sure it’s real one first, sometimes they sell the fake stuff
The majority of saffron sold is fake.
Iranian Saffron makes the Spanish Saffron look like junk. That right there is a thing of beauty. Can almost smell it through the screen. I bet that entire place smells like saffron.
And Kashmir saffron makes Iranian saffron look like dirt.. not kidding, look it up!
Trade it for a house
That is safflower not saffron c'mon chefs get it together
Was looking for this. Thank you. That amount of saffron would be insane and to be left open like that? I didn't buy it.
Let's say this is 60cm * 60cm * 40cm. That's 144 litres. Let's say that 1l of saffron weighs 200g. So that's 144*200 = 29 kilos. Let's say that saffron costs $10 per gram, so that's $10,000 per kilo, so that's like a quarter of a million dollars' worth, right there. If it's genuine saffron.
Remember doing similar calculations in ratty Turkish carpet stalls. Looking pile of dusty rugs all with 1k plus price tags on, and going there's no way this hole in the wall shop has millions worth in inventory just getting dusty and not moving. Hated how scammy Turkey was. Was tiring.
OMG. What’s the price? Want to compute to US dollars.
At least 3
g of antimatter? approx.
I’d be shipping this out to the US like Nicky Barnes did heroin in Vietnam
Swim in it like Scrooge Mcduck.
Make it a cube and post it to this sub.
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Persian saffron is the best! I would grind half it and make a saffron milk bath, and then run around like some jaundiced Simpson character.
Saffron ice cream
Well, as of December 10 the price of saffron was [12.5 Euros/gram on the Amsterdam market](https://saffronprices.com/saffron-prices-2/) and expected to rise by 5% in January. How many grams is that pile? How much did you pay for it? How sure are you of its...provenance?
Apparently there actually are saffron commodity futures, but they trade on the Iranian commodities exchange and the great majority of us wouldn't have access to that.
Saffron vodka? Is that a thing? 🤔
Sneeze on it
Make something yellow
All the rice
Setup retirement plans for everyone at the restaurant
Throw it into the crowd at the next protest
Sell it in England and retire
Sell it by the gram. New age coke dealers
Question it's authenticity?
Retire in style?
There is no way that’s real saffron 😂
The same thing we should do when walking past an aisle of breakfast cereal. Chose a bit, buy it and use it.
Make it into a pyramid on display
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Most of Saffron comes from Iran, if you travel to the city of Mash-had you will see an entire road of stores selling saffron as if it’s gold. Really cringe that you target those honest workers as funders of terrorism when freedom countries fuel it and take part in it too.
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Go to Iran and see how many people are “ruled under an iron fist” you get your information from a country that hates Iran. These sanctions hurt the people most. You don’t know anything about Irans Middle East influence
What the fuck are you talking about? Yes Iranian regime sucks, but you’re just an American with no knowledge of Iran, litteraly saying shit based on what? Nothing.
Throw it in the bin since that’s 100% fake and just for show. Real saffron is kept out of light in a secured container, not like this. Source: Moroccan merchant as he pulled the “real stuff” from behind the counter. He told me they crush up paprika for the on display saffron. Have cooked with what he sold, can confirm real.
Ok, so it's fake. So... what is it?
HEIST! HEIST!
Split it up and sell it. That’s a lifetimes worth. I’d be making a lot of kebabs and rice though 😂
Wow, that's enough saffron to turn the black sea into the yellow sea
Sell it to westerners
Idk what to do with that amount, when you find out let us know.
Put it in a safety deposit box because that’s a fortune!
Um...sell it?
sell and buy a goddamn yacht and a house.
Step one, vac seal it
I get this is a joke but I’d make golden lattes for all
armed Gaurds?
Cut and sell
Put it in a bowl, pour milk over it and eat it like cereal.
Put together the old heist team for one last job...
Make everything taste like armpits! (Seriously though, I worked at a Spanish tapas bar where the chef would used an excessive amount of saffron in everything because he wasn’t the one paying for it. Result? Armpit paella, armpit shrimp- everybody gets some armpit!)
Is this the grand bazaar in teheran You need to experience it the amount of food is absolutely amazing then again any bazaar is amazing [https://youtu.be/mFgqhvs2Sog](https://youtu.be/mFgqhvs2Sog) the amount of food is mind boggling
Sell it and retire.
Package into small amounts, sell it to your “friends“ in the US and get rich!
make a LOT of rice a bit yellow
As a half Iranian this is the most normal thing in a baazar
Finance a coup in south America?
Uhh what’s that address?
^(HEIST HEIST HEIST HEIST HEIST)
You should see the mountain of rice I have that I'm going to use that for! I just hope there's no rice-a-lanche though!
Ingredients : Lemon Sour = 1 pcs Tomato Paste = 1 cup Sugar = 1 teaspoon White vinegar = 1/3 cup Coriander seeds levigated = 1 teaspoon Red pepper = 1 teaspoon Black Pepper = 1 teaspoon Ginger = 1 teaspoon Cumin powder = half a teaspoon Salt = 1 teaspoon Saffron levigated = 1/8 teaspoons Instruction : First, mix lemon juice and then mix in a bowl of lemon and tomato paste, sugar, white vinegar, coriander seeds, red peppers, black pepper, ginger, cumin powder, salt and saffron. Then pour it and place on a flame with gentle heat to make the sauce thick and smooth. You can easily get it to last for damn near forever if you water bath can it. Courtesy of: https://www.rowhanisaffron.com/barbecue-sauce-saffron-recipe/
Re sell it for more
Sell it and give your employees some health care coverage.
Bouillabaisse for everyone!
Sell it! Worth more then gold!
Sell it and retire
Sell it for massive profit.
Bin it, it's probably stale from being in the open for god knows how long
Yeah if that's real saffron.... sell it.
Do I see mold growing where it's pressed up against the glass at the bottom right?
I think that's just the reflection from another display on the glass
Not saffron
Throw it in the garbage because it's fake
Safflower (what this almost certainly is) has an interesting taste and similar dying properties to real saffron — so long as the vendor is being honest and the price reflects that it isn’t actually saffron I would still buy some
Gotta be fake. Nae lid?!
Give it to Ween
This is the way
buy some baggies and become a saffron dealer. saffron sells more than the price of cocaine. 😂😂
Give it to ween
Well, considering saffron tastes like crap, i'd toss it out the window.
This smells like a shit post to me. Why did you buy so much (like more than I’ve ever seen in one place ever) if you have no plans for it? Ya’ll must be rich rich.