fuckingrecipes:

foervraengd:

Uughghhh I rly am not a fan of the gold leaf food trend I see on YouTube.

Like yeah if it’s ~23-24carat gold leafs you can eat it without any worry. But there’s also bs like “edible silver leaf” which I rly don’t recommend eating because silver oxide inside your body. Afaik high carat gold is p much the only metal leaf that’s safe to eat in any quantity you can afford. But it really is a waste of gold in general – gold is mainly useful in electronic devices. And said metal might’ve been extracted from mines where workers are in a dangerous environment etc.

Not to mention the process of separating gold from other minerals includes several “baths” in toxic chemicals. How do we consumers know what they do with all that toxic waste afterwards? There’s actually “organic gold” where the cleaning process use less or other chemicals to be more safe for the environment.

Also, gold leafs are so thin that one single sheet is actually somewhere around ~5$ depending on the stock markets current state. So if a fancy dish that cost like 100$ only because there’s a sheet of gold leaf on it, then they’re just scamming you. There are edible ingredients like truffle that are worth more than a single sheet of gold leaf iirc.

You’re still giving it too much value. 
You can buy Edible Gold Leaf on amazon, thirty 1.2-inch by 1.2-inch squares for like, $8 

You can cover the top surface of a 36×36 inch sheet cake with pure 24 karat gold for 8$
That’s a sheet cake that’s 3 feet long by 3 feet wide. A sheet cake that’s barely smaller than 1 meter by 1 meter. Cover the whole fucking top with pure gold for $8. 

Likewise, edible pearl dust and edible glitter runs about $12 for a bottle that can coat several cakes – just shimmer the FUCK outta it.

Anyway, stop paying $50 for a cupcake that cost them $3 to make. Make it your damn self. 

Shit gold for pennies. 

-Sincerely yours, a budget-conscious hedonist