Spices

[gemfyre]

EVERYWHERE you read, "Saffron and Tumeric are used mostly for the colour, they are interchangable." (Because Saffron is pricey and Tumeric is cheap, even though a large bottle of tumeric costs about as much as the teeny boxes of saffron you buy, but each lasts me about a year or so).

Am I the only person in the universe who finds them very NOT interchangable? Each has a unique flavour and they are nothing alike. When I make my favourite rice dish, I usually end up adding more tumeric for the flavour. I don't need my rice to be yellow, but I want the tumeric flavour there.

Comments

[odindeathcrush.livejournal.com]

cosmos, i've never ever read that saffron and tumeric are interchangeable, tho i'm not doubting that you have read that.
i just don't understand it at all. they have very very different qualities and uses and values...*is baffled*

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Almost every cooking website I go to says this. Maybe all the sites are written by people who have never actually tasted these spices and just figure, "Oh people just use them to make things yellow." *shrug*

[odindeathcrush.livejournal.com]

well most of the food based sites i visit are vegan or herbalistic in nature so maybe that is why???

i could see tumeric and 'curry' being bantered about as interchangable, but not saffron. anyone who uses saffron for colorant only is just not wise in the ways of saffron!