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Hot take: Packaged baklava blows bakery (fresh) baklava out of the water. Age or ingredients don't matter much. Baklava needs to be made just right to work. T
by steno132 3y ago
Hot take: Packaged baklava blows bakery (fresh) baklava out of the water.
Age or ingredients don't matter much.
Baklava needs to be made just right to work. There's no room for error. And the machines seem to have a upper hand over us on precision.
- beebeepka 3y agoHard disagree but I guess we have access to completely different packaged baklava and grannies that make this yummy stuff.
- steno132 3y agoI’ve had both. The granny’s peak baklava may be better, I’ll concede. But the median packaged baklava blows the granny’s median baklava out of the water. There’s no contest.
- hot_gril 3y agoI agree, same with hummus.
- mtts 3y agoAnd pilsener beer. For some things the artisan skill is in approaching machine level efficiency. (of course in many cases, such as with baklava, hummus and pilsener beer the temptation then arises to cheap out on the ingredients, causing the factory to lose out to the granny, but the principle essentially holds)
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoI've certainly had bakery baklava that was worse than store-bought. But there are a couple bakeries in Istanbul that make some that blow anything else I've ever tasted (baklava or otherwise) out of the water.
- steno132 3y agoNew Jersey baklava is much better than Istanbul baklava actually. Try it. Immigrants touch I guess?
- coldjuicebox 3y agoHeading to Istanbul in a few weeks. Do you have any recs for good places?
- esafak 3y agoNot in the US. I can't even bring myself to call the packaged stuff baklava. Baklava-esque?