Why Saffron Is The World's Most Expensive Spice 

i accidentally dropped my mom's saffron and she got mad. now i know why. thank you :D

0:18 "for starters, saffron is a complicated spice to harvest." "My name is Arash GHALEHGOLABBEHBAHANI" there you go

I love the aroma of saffron when we use it for Indian dishes especially Biryani.

Me: looks outside and sees purple flowers Also me: STONKS

Saffron better be the most amazing thing anyone's ever tasted.

I once bathed in saffron, my skin felt so good. My mum didn’t speak to me for a week.

Screw being a weed dealer, I'm gonna be a saffron dealer

People: Saffron is very expensive. Indians: **putting it in literally every sweet dish**

His last name looks like the results I got from smashing my hands to the keyboard pretending I'm a hacker.

I planted 100 saffron bulbs earlier this Autumn in a garden raised bed here in the southern Willamette Valley. The bulbs came from a family farm in France. It was a real pleasure to harvest our first homegrown saffron threads. The flavor is incredible and the color very strong. Thanks for posting this video. I enjoyed it very much.

In Iran, we use saffron in most foods and sweets, and it is the main food spice in every Iranian home. It does not matter how expensive saffron.The main taste of Iranian food is completed with saffron. If you come to Iran one day, try saffron Plo, saffron ice cream and saffron kebab chicken.

I had a wonderful little saffron plot in South Central Pennsylvania, 3'x4'. It was so productive that I was able to gift tiny jars to my friends and have plenty for my family

Rice with saffron ....best thing in the world

We eat it to with our food , and daily with a glass of milk at night very good for your health.

My grandparents are Jewish Persians so when my grand cooks Persian and my mom we use saffron and I love the smell it’s so good and the taste

Literally all pakistani and indian sweet dishes have saffron like actually yesturday my mom was applying a saffrn mask on her face now i know the importance

A good example for how *limited supply* can increase the price of something to the high value, when the demand is growing. Also, the saffron makes the food to taste sweeter, the people are very keen on sweet things.

Indian dishes specially sweets are incomplete without saffron..!! Saffron is magic..!! 😋😍

I said the guys name at the beginning and my furniture started moving

It is really a very informative video. The time lapse video of saffron flowers which is included in this video is taken by me when I was working on Saffron flowering project at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Pune. We also got a good result of in vitro flowering as well as greenhouse flowering. Filed a patent on in vitro flowering.

Ghalehgolabbehbahani I feel bad for when he has to write his last name down

Fun Fact: Saffron is very popular in Sweden because it is used in a pastry called "Lussekatt". It is a tradition to eat Lussekatter (saffron pastries) when it is Christmas in Sweden. 🙂

I grew up eating it as a treat, it's absolutely amazing. My family is from Iran and it's my dad's favorite

Saffron is like a more expensive version of weed that you eat

0:21 “ghalehgolabbehbahani”

Literally EVERY Indian family has boxes of this stuff for milk, deserts, etc.

*This is absolutely amazing! Great job*

I remember when I was little there was a garden of these flowers down the street of my school it was beautiful there was more flowers:Roses,Tulips,Violets....And much more!If I knew there were so fragile I would had protected them In the winter

How to become rich? Plant these! 😂

it is as expensive as its taste its yum l love to eat it....

Never known saffron, but this video teaches me everything I need to about saffron.

Saffron: *expensive* Me: Oh hell na Saffron: *good for depression* Me: *About to rob a bank*

I am a pro chef from Croatia , and i use saffron in the dishes , but you have to put little . I use it for food coloring . I will quote Gordon Ramsay " It's expensive as hell " 😂😁 . In Croatia we call it "Šafran" .

as an afghan I highly recommend saffron with green tea you will love it.

As a Persian I am proud of my country producing 90 percent of saffron in the wworl not only most expensive but also highest quality and flavor comparing to other saffrons produced in other countries. I wish everyone in the world could taste it.

Other countries: it's so expensive! India: zuban kasari! Indians can relate😌

my parents told me that they bring it from space😂😂

His name tho....

We use it a lot in sweden for Christmas and in seafood. I love it!

What genius thought plucking those three little strands from a flower was a good idea? God bless them because saffron in cooking is amazing.

The name in not complicated at all, its Arash ghaleh golab behbani and it mean warrior-hill-flower juice- and good feeling. They pact the whole last name together so it's looking like gibberish

I have been working for long time in MIDDLE EAST, i work as barista or coffee maker, most of arab people they like saffron specially for tea and coffee. Its good for depression and migraine. Thank you for this great video!❤️🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

Those flowers are incredibly beautiful

woaah. that's so cool. i didn't actually know that. so, it is this labor-intensive process that makes saffron soooo expensive

Damn his last name tho

Now I am able to understand why my mother scolded me very badly when I dropped saffron on the floor and was going to broom it out. lol

My grandma used to use saffron in rice pudding, it always tasted wonderful.

Milk and kheer with saffron is the best thing i have ever eaten😋. And also the smell in biriyani

When everyone focuses on his name rather the very low pay for hard workers for an expensive spice

0:20 My name is Arash Globgobgabgalab

Wow I never appreciate how much saffron my mom uses in our food and tea !

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I never knew that Vanilla can be so expensive.. like omg!!..

Growing up in an Indian family, we have saffron mixed in milk every night.

I use saffron daily as a health support. I use it to avoid migraines and also to ease depression. I have been off anti depressants for almost 3 months. I put about 8-10 strands in my mouth and let them stay there for 10-15mins. They become hydrated with salvia, then I chew it. I used to wash it down with water, now I just leave it so I get little bonus bits for a few hours haha. It also helps with gum inflammation and mild tooth aches. Just keep moving the strands back to the point of pain and wait 15mins and it will offer mild relief. Really hope this helps someone. I'm from Australia, where I live we have a large multi cultural community, so I purchase saffron from Afgan or Idian supply shops for $20 AUD for 5gms. I really happy with that because used to be about $12 AUD for 0.1g from major supermarket.

Great report .. very nice 😍👍🏻❤️ i love Saffron 🥰

Arash Ghalehgolabbehbahani *_spits out water_* ....What come again😲

"My name is Arash *Globglogabgelab* " I am the spice of thoughts and mind.

i am super glad as an indonesian to have access and is actually able to taste saffron. its kinda cheap because we got it and our friends store and we got 15% discount

Simple and good video...any one can understand.... Congrats

To everyone who responds to people who use saffron with "Are you rich!?": Saffron is very expensive in large amounts, but you only need to use a very small amount of saffron to make several servings of the food in question. A small glass vial or saffron costs around $6, and I'm pretty sure you could make a lot of food with that. So no, you don't need to be rich to use saffron. Also: Saffron comes in many grades. High quality saffron is very expensive. The saffron in the video sounds like it's high grade saffron.

Glad you picked a Persian expert since it is primarily from that area. I also must say that saffron is mostly produced in Iran not just cause of cheap labor cause you find that in most of those other places he mentioned to, it’s definitely the climate and soil that bare this type of plant easier than other places

3:31 "It gives PA-YAY-YEAH its signature flavor and golden color" My EARS!!!

In Greece where my origin is we called Krokos that after take the Latin Crocus sativous...also we have named our village like this...krokos ..The famous ancient Greek writter Omiros reffered word Krokos flower(saffron) in the 800 b.c. our brand Krokos-kozani saffron is considered as one of the best quality world wide... thanks for nice video

I had saffron. I LOVED it. I would use it a lot in my cooking 😍😍 the flavour and aroma is 😍😍

I had an Autumn Crocus plant once. It was great to have it bloom in autumn.

We once went to our relatives who harvested safron and other stuff idk if its their job or just hobby cuz they own it and they gave us like a plate of saffron for free crazyyy idk if they had too much or maybe grew tired of its taste or something but goving away a full plate of it was so nice of them.

Earl Gray Citrus Tea w/ Saffron taste amazing

forgot about saffron.. this dude has awasome voice

That’s a long last name

Saffron grows wild at my home. I never knew it was a spice. Wow. I am also starting a farm so I guess I gotten free real estate🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

Wow i hope this has some wild benefits for that price!

Others Saffron=Expensive Spice Pokemon Players=Saffron City

Thanks for giving daily new knowledge about world

Love Iran from Pakistan ♥️🌟

“Ooh i like your name” -Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

It helped me with depression I love it ❤️

Good nice work Millions of like

saffron sounds like a gem

The flower is beautiful.. I love the colour!! Period

But it looks great

This man is a legend!

Persia has the best climate to grow such delicate flowers!

@0:18 saffron is very complex to harvest @0.21 he says his simple name...

Arash: is name of Iranian legend GhaleGolabBehbehani : Ghale = Means Castle Golab= Means Rose - Rose water Behbehani= means From Behbehan ( a city in South Western Iran)

I remember my mother had recipe that called for saffron, and at the store when we were looking for it came in this tiny ass baggy inside a more normal looking holder. I showed my mom, and she’s like, “well, time to find a different recipe.”

Time to plant some in my garden

I always wondered that question.Thanks for uploading this video

Thank you for educating me about this very expensive ingredient because I often wondered.

In Northern European countries saffron is used to flavor sweet, yellow cake desserts for festive occasions like name days and shaped like a giant pretzel. They are similar in taste to Italian panettone or stollen, but with more saffron flavoring unique to each family recipe.

And Remy was just gonna steal safron for his MUSHROOM?!

Flowers tend to have shallow root systems let us assume this is true also with Saffron. So, grow it in those gardening trays that are very modular and mobile. Have the trays run through picking station factories, use tools similar to remote surgery tools. You don't need super super high quality ones either, you just need to have cameras to help the software that controls them locate the stamens to pick them. You can train your picking algorithms on cheap flowers with similar general shapes and vaguely similar color contrasts. Should not be SUPER hard to beat 5000 USD a pound if you can get a set up running over 30 pounds a year. Yes, according to the video they are getting yields of 4 lbs an arce in the hills of Iran. Remember they probably aren't bothering to fertilize and that this is outside. What you might want to be doing is to grow test beds of flowers and be on the look out for plants with more than 3 stamens or plants with more than the normal number of flowers or even just larger stamens. You also want to be looking out for flowers that open at abnormal times or just more often. These are the general types you want to breed to create your stocks. I am just an internet person and I am not a Saffron or any other type of farmer I am sure a commercial farmer could be even more effective, but it is obviously possible to cut out the human labor costs involved in a lot of the steps of harvest and preparation. Remember that Iran does not have the types of sophisticated robotic automated harvesting equipment that we have here in the States, not does it have the engineering to design variants adapted to this purpose. One should also take care to remember that using light capturing mirrors and refocusing you can even simulate different light levels than your current latitude has as well as trick the plants into thinking it is whatever season you want. Assuming this plant is as expensive as is stated and that the demand volume is there I would expect that some people will work out the rest of the kinks involved and drop the bottom out of this market.

Sorcery.

0:21 That doctors name is pure gold in scrabble

I used saffron once for a dish, it was used in a cream reduction. It was very, very good. And very very expensive.

His parents accidentally smashed the keyboard when the nurse was asking his last name.

Never had it. Is it good?

So intriguing

For people who are curious about the taste: (I'm Iranian and we use it a lot)😊 Saffron doesn't have any taste but when it's ready to use, it has a golden red-yellow color and the smell is sooooo sweet that you might think the taste is sweet as well (but it's not!) The smell is like smell of flowers that makes you so fresh and happy!(Probably one of the best smells I've ever tried❤) Couple of drops of that can give the food a strong yellow color.😍

I wouldn't mind listening to an audio book from him! Love his voice!