SC - Re: Getting hot

[Philip & Susan Troy]

LYN M PARKINSON wrote:
> 
> >>I found a web page that sells saffron for $47 an ounce.  Is that a good
> price?  I get mine in much smaller packaging (metric even) and I'm not
> doing well with conversions this morning.<<
> 
> I'm sure I didn't pay anything like that at the Pepperar's Guild at
> Pennsic!
>
> So, maybe it is a good price and I'm confused about how much I bought as
> it is so light in weight. Don't know the volume? bulk? of an ounce of
> saffron.  I seem to vaguely recall paying something like $8-9.00, and got
> a good bit of the stuff.

I buy an ounce (28 grams) of La Mancha saffron, last or this year's
harvest, depending on the date, pretty much the industrial standard
quality, i.e. quite good but not necessarily the absolute best, in a
little tin box roughly 3" x 5" x 2", in any of several Indian grocery
stores in my neighborhood for $28.
 
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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