That leaf was conceived in wedlock.
Well yeah bay leaves do usually get removed before serving
I assume that’s for garnish
Ah! The vegetarian plate!
Bay leaves, at this point is just a cultural thing
Wait til they find out about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuffed_leaves
In fairness, I’m not sure anyone knows if bay leaves even do anything.
Might as well just boil up a handful of grass from the local park, about the same.
my person, it absolutely does i love them very much, they are one of my favourite spices
Just smell it (not just bay leaves but whatever). If it has a smell, that aroma can be infused into cooking, though you’ll want to make sure it’s edible before just throwing it into dishes.
And you might need to sauté them for a bit (also called tempering) to infuse that aroma into oil, since it’s not all water soluable.
I wasn’t sure myself, so i made a “tea” out of bay leaves to check, and i can confirm that they do in fact have a pretty distinct flavor.
This is smart, I don’t know when to put it in so I should get familiar with the taste
In the tea? I just stuck a leaf in a cup with water and microwaved it for a minute or two.
In food? I usually put it in as soon as I start the simmer on a liquid part of the dish. It takes a long while for the flavor to really become significant.
… what?
Make a dish twice, once without the bay leaf. There is an obvious difference. It’s fine to not like the taste of any particular spice but saying there is none is sort of crazy?
He’s joking, it’s people that don’t cook often don’t know what the difference is
Bay leaf does provide a subtle earthy flavour, but it is also an anti fungal. I guess your left overs will stay edible a bit longer.
It also looks exactly the same as a clove leaf. A shop sold me a bag of mis-labelled clove leafs and my Bolognese that evening tasted most strange
Ah, yeah, the kind of cooking our household does is usually pretty strong favour wise (lots of South Asian cooking), it’s probably why neither my wife or I have ever noticed it.
Maybe if when make Italian food we should use it :)
While I support the message of never eating at Chipotle again, she’s doing it for the wrong reasons.
I don’t eat at Chipotle because they were bought by private equity and subsequently enshittified to further enrich someone who already had more wealth than could be spent in a lifetime.
She doesn’t eat at Chipotle because she found a bayleaf in her burrito bowl…
That’s where food comes from - trees, bushes, grasses, dirt.
Also - if Minecraft has taught me anything - punching animals until some chops appear in my inventory.
Cherry on top would have been if her name was Laurel
Leaf on top
Wait til she finds the bird meat in her chicken bowl or that they served her food on paper and metal
Who the fuck uses bay leaves in Mexican food?
People who know how to cook? 😆
Every good pot of Mexican beans has bay leaves in it.
There’s literally a species of laurel native to Mexico that indigenous Americans used in their food for thousands of years.
Bay leaves come from various plants and are used for their distinctive flavour and fragrance. The most common source is the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis). Other types include California bay laurel, Indian bay leaf, West Indian bay laurel, and Mexican bay laurel.
Mexicans.
👀😬
Mexicans. At least some of them.
Use it in with rice all the time. Its a very subtle flavor but it definitely adds to it so it goes in.
“Mexican food”…
Just checked out a map; turns out Mexico does exist.
Chipotle is to Mexican food what Olive Garden is to Italian cuisine.
Why is it Mexican FOOD and Italian CUISINE?
Because despite not realizing it yet, human consciousness is just a next-word-predicting LLM, and the dataset most Americans are trained on has those as the most common next words.
Eurocentrism
Well fuck, do the Spanish have food or cuisine?
I feel like it’s closer than Taco Bell at least
The number of people who think Mexico isn’t a North American country is worrying
Try asking Americans to point out South America on a map. You’ll have to not giggle as they point to Texas or Florida.
Big if true
Apparently it is common in Mexico itself. I had to look it up because I was also incredulous at using a bay leaf in a burrito.
Many Latin American countries always add bay leaves when cooking any type of bean. There are beans in a burrito.
I’m gonna have to try the mexican variety becsuse the kind I am used to adds literally nothing to dishes other than a leaf in the food. 🤷♂️
it’s the exact same plant. if your grocery store has a latin section they probably sell hojas de laurel for cheaper per ounce than mccormick.
Or even hoja de laurel molida. And then you don’t have to fish it out.
I use it in Chili Colorado.
I was curious, here is what I found: “We use bay leaves to add a subtle depth of flavor to dishes like our beans, rice, Barbacoa, and Carnitas.” - this was off a reddit post, so who knows.
Classic carnitas flavor absolutely has bay
Birria? Rice? Caldos?
WTF do you mean who uses leaves in Mexican food?
Mexicans, for one. Bay leaves are common in lots of cuisine.
Chipotle is really resting on its laurels.
She is a dangerous type of white person.
We call them Karen
