Beestrot 👨‍🍳 on Mythryl: “🟢 If it takes 200,000 flowers to make one kilogram of saffron, what…”

More expensive than gold. Harvested by hand at dawn. There is a reason saffron costs what it does, and it is not what you think. #Saffron #HerbsAndSpices #SpiceHistory #FineDining #CrocusSativus #amazing #Bluesky #Cooksky #Flipboard

beestrot.comSaffron Is the Most Expensive Spice in the World. Here Is Why It Is Worth Every Cent.Forty euros for a small glass vial. That was my introduction to saffron as an ingredient worth understanding. The most expensive spice on earth has held that title for three thousand years, and the reason has nothing to do with fashion. It has everything to do with what no machine has ever been able to do.

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