Sheldon > wrote:
>
>Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>> Andy <q> wrote:
>> >It naturally makes a great rice dish. Soak a few pinches in a little hot
>> >water then add to a pot of rice.
>>
>> Um...why soak it? Rice cooks in hot water... just toss
>> the saffron in the pot when warming it up...saves washing
>> a dish...
>
>Rice really doesn't cook long enough to fully extract the full
>potential of saffron.

Rice cooks for 20 minutes and totally extracts everything
in the saffron, you git.

--Blair