The simple chart
- 1 g, $20: about 10 dishes. Solo cook or single saffron-tea drinker.
- 2 g, $35: about 20 dishes.
- 3 g, $45: about 30 dishes (about $1.50 a dish). Family cook.
- 5 g, $65: about 50 dishes. Heavy cook or small café.
- 10 g, $99: about 100 dishes (about $0.99 a dish).
Pinch math
A pinch is 0.1 g, about 25 threads.
The lot in the bottle
Everything below is written by a saffron seller, so here is the evidence first. Our current lot carries Herat government laboratory report 004389: crocin 296.5, picrocrocin 114.2, safranal 32.7. That is ISO 3632 Category I on every tested parameter. About 250 all-red threads to the gram, hand-packed in Lynn, Massachusetts.
When to size up
If you find yourself opening the bottle twice a week, the 5 g is better value. If you forget you own it, the 1 g is fine.
How that maps to our bottles
Raihan Super Negin comes in five harvest-dated crystal-clear bottles, and the per-gram price drops fast as you size up:
The harvest bottles
Lab-graded Super Negin — pick your size
Not sure? The supply calculator works out your exact size from how often you cook.
