On a price per kilo basis you woundnt be far off!
The guy who figures out how to make cheap saffron will give Bill Gates a run for the money.
Indeed. I think I’ve seen saffron in our local Tesco priced at £3000 per kilo or something like it (maybe even £3500). Not that you’re buying it in those quantities, but such are the vagaries of food pricing - the label states the packet price but also the unit-mass price for comparison. 
Crush it before you add it to any dish.
Are you sure that’s right? 58g of cloves in any recipe sounds way too much.
I think the OP’s recipe is to feed a LOT of people. I seem to remember something about a pound of cumin!
I think the recipe is to feed an average Indian family of twenty for several months of eating it three times a day, but yea, pretty much the same concept.
From the Tesco website: Tesco Ingredient Spanish Saffron 0.4g - £2.58(£6,450.00/kg)
Damn inflation.
Actually, saffron is probably at damn near all time historical low prices. There was a time when saffron sold for its weight in gold, literally. As of now a kilo of gold is trading at £20,114, or US $29,409.
Luxury I tell ya! Luxury! Makes me want to get my purple clothes out and dine like a King. Too bad my daughter is allergic to saffron. She loves it, but we can only have it for dinner because she has to take benedryl afterwords and it puts her straight out.
Enjoy,
Steven
That tells us more about the price of gold recently than saffron - go back eight or nine years and the gold is a third of its current value.
Safflower is another cheap, and common, saffron substitute. It’s sometimes sold as “Mexican saffron” or “American saffron.”
Damn pound taking a beating from the Euro, too, I should think.
You might want to be careful with that.
From here:
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errr… does anyone know where Petrobey Mavromihalis lives?
Let’s hope it’s actually tumeric
Report back to us pronto!
Well, if anybody ever was to die of an accidental fatal dose of saffron, it WOULD have to be a doper wouldnt it?
That’s totally insane. Would you have done the same thing with 30 grams of crack, because apparently it costs more than crack. After spending 16 bucks on a gram of this stuff, if I spilled 30 grams I’d treat it like I just dropped all the crack I needed to pay my pimp.*
- Stirictly an analogy, not meant to imply any type of actual transaction.
Incidently, my chicken/paneer tikka masala was to die for. Honestly, I think one of the biggest reasons was that I had actual indian red chilli peppers. Unfortunately, since I could only guess as to what the units were for my garahm masala spice, I will live off this version for a few months and never be able to replicate it again. Definitely grinding the saffron in a mortar and pestle brought out some flavor.
Thirty grams of saffron will make your dish smell like a flower garden. That is WAY WAY WAY overpowering. I love the color and gentle taste of saffron, but I can only take it in very small pinches. It is definitely a case of a little goes a long way. I somehow really doubt that was saffron added to the dish. Most likely, it was safflower, especially if it looked like this.
