What's the spice you use most?
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…Other than salt and pepper
For me it’s cumin. It’s one of the few spices I buy in bulk and actually use up my supply.
In the winter it may lean towards cardamom thanks to copious amounts of chia.
When I cook spicy, I use a lot of my premixed masala, though I don’t know the exact composition or ratios, so I guess that would disqualify that. Second would probably be sechuan pepper. I love that shit.
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Not counting sugar? garlic powder or Cinnamon and vanilla. I use garlic powder to go with salt and pepper in a 7:2:1 ratio as like a base for everything from tuna salad to bean burritos. Thrice a week I make overnight oats with Vanilla extract and cinnamon.
Note my favorite is smoked paprika, I just know fewer recipes and synergistic flavors.
SPG is a big mover in my cooking, but then garam masala, creole spice are not far behind.
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…Other than salt and pepper
For me it’s cumin. It’s one of the few spices I buy in bulk and actually use up my supply.
In the winter it may lean towards cardamom thanks to copious amounts of chia.
Garlic, sumac, coriander, paprika, rosemary, chaat, turmeric.
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…Other than salt and pepper
For me it’s cumin. It’s one of the few spices I buy in bulk and actually use up my supply.
In the winter it may lean towards cardamom thanks to copious amounts of chia.
Coriander seeds.
Cumin and the other cumin (what’s Kümmel called in English?)
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I have four that I use for everything equally so I’m going to consider them as a single seasoning, like Mrs. Dash. Onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, and cayenne. I put that mix in anything I cook.
Pretty similar for me except I swap the regular paprika for smoked paprika. Maybe a tad less versatile, but thhr smoke flavor works in most of the things I cook most frequently.
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Coriander seeds.
Cumin and the other cumin (what’s Kümmel called in English?)
Coriander seeds fucking slap
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…Other than salt and pepper
For me it’s cumin. It’s one of the few spices I buy in bulk and actually use up my supply.
In the winter it may lean towards cardamom thanks to copious amounts of chia.
Caraway/cumin, thyme, wild garlic and lovage (which happens to be a surprisingly close translation of the name in Polish). The first two are really helpful in pods based kitchen. Lovage has a bit of a MSG effect, brings up umami.
But half of the time I just randomly spray stuff with one of the masalas I got from a local Indian store.
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Capsaicin
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…Other than salt and pepper
For me it’s cumin. It’s one of the few spices I buy in bulk and actually use up my supply.
In the winter it may lean towards cardamom thanks to copious amounts of chia.
Is garlic a spice or an ingredient? I use a lot of fucking garlic.
For spice i love paprika
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Life is too short to waste time cleaning a garlic press.
Don’t use a press – just smash with a big knife, pull off the paper, and chop a little. Jarred doesn’t taste the same. Jar-garlic is why I won’t buy Costco’s garlic ‘wings’ yet will buy the Rotisserie chicken right next to it: the ‘wings’ have an enormous excess of garlic, but it all tastes like ‘jar’ and only faintly like garlic.
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Life is too short to waste time cleaning a garlic press.
I use way too much garlic to bother with a press. Just chop it. It’s faster, easier to clean and you can more easily vary the size of the garlic bits.
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Don’t use a press – just smash with a big knife, pull off the paper, and chop a little. Jarred doesn’t taste the same. Jar-garlic is why I won’t buy Costco’s garlic ‘wings’ yet will buy the Rotisserie chicken right next to it: the ‘wings’ have an enormous excess of garlic, but it all tastes like ‘jar’ and only faintly like garlic.
Apparently my palate is not so refined. I can definitely tell that one is better than the other, but only slightly.
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…Other than salt and pepper
For me it’s cumin. It’s one of the few spices I buy in bulk and actually use up my supply.
In the winter it may lean towards cardamom thanks to copious amounts of chia.
Smoked paprika
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…Other than salt and pepper
For me it’s cumin. It’s one of the few spices I buy in bulk and actually use up my supply.
In the winter it may lean towards cardamom thanks to copious amounts of chia.
Cayenne pepper, and a lot of it. Curry is next
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…Other than salt and pepper
For me it’s cumin. It’s one of the few spices I buy in bulk and actually use up my supply.
In the winter it may lean towards cardamom thanks to copious amounts of chia.
Coriander, is my favorite, though I like cumin too. Paprika (Against what seems to be popular I don’t care for the smoked stuff just plain), and I also love cardamom! I add a bit to every sweet I make just about. I really like getting a nice good quality chocolate bar and chopping it for chocolate chip cookies. Cardamom goes really well in these cookies imo. Love it
I also have hatch green chili pepper, aleppo pepper, oregano I grow myself and I use it a lot.
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I planted herbs all around my house, so I always have fresh herbs available. But I almost always end up using thyme, occasionally rosemary.
People here keep saying garlic, which I also use extensively but I don’t think of it as a spice.
I don’t think garlic is a spice until the moment it’s dried and ground. Then maybe it’s a spice. Fresh garlic, I agree isnt a spice it’s… what is garlic a vegetable?
What the hell is garlic?
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It’s not that serious!
To our patron saint Anthony Bourdain it was!
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I use way too much garlic to bother with a press. Just chop it. It’s faster, easier to clean and you can more easily vary the size of the garlic bits.
Here here!
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Some top ones for me: MSG, Chicken Bouillon, Smoked Paprika, Thyme, Garlic powder, and finally, controversially, bay leaves.
MSG goes in basically anything. If it gets salt and pepper it’s probably also getting MSG for me. I do a lot of chicken, and whenever I do I’m almost always adding some chicken bouillon to add some flavor to it. I really love Thyme, and find myself just adding it somewhat randomly to things. Smoked Paprika is a perfect flavor that’s so unique, I add it to anything I want to have a bit of a kick, like chili, ect. Not that it’s like spicy or anything, just it adds a little something to those dishes that you can’t really get elsewhere. Garlic powder is an all around great utility, and I tend to “dump” this stuff on things.
Last but not least, Bay leaves. I swear, I’m like the #1 consumer of these things. I throw them in anything. Anything savory with a decent sauce/soupy base is PERFECT to add a bay leaf to. If you use em often you can really taste the difference, since fresh bay leaves really pack a punch in flavor.
“Controversially bay leaves” has me dying
I also add bay leaves to everything. I found my local co op has them in the bull spice section, they are so freaking fresh.
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You are my spice hero! Perfect list. My only note is that Herbs de Provence is also a mix, just like curries.
Oh you’re right, I messed that up. Oops.
