PRG-09 · Super Negin · ISO 3632 Category I
Saffron Powder
The same Super Negin threads, milled fine. Powder does one thing threads cannot: it disperses the moment it meets liquid, so the colour and the aroma go through the whole dish instead of sitting in a few strands. That is what you want in rice, in dough, in a drink, in anything that should be even. It is not what you want when you want the saffron to be seen. Same grade, same price, different job.
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- Grade
- SUPER NEGIN — milled from whole stigmas
- Selection
- ISO 3632 Category I — graded as threads, before milling
- Added
- Nothing — no colour, no filler, no carrier
- Net weight
- 5 g
- Harvest
- 2026
- Jar
- Glass, gold lid, sealed under crimson wax
Powder or threads
Powder for evenness: rice, dough, batter, ice cream, coffee, anything where the colour should reach every part of the pot. Threads where the saffron is meant to show — a rice crust, a dessert with strands laid on top, a jar you hand to somebody. Threads also let you steep, which is its own pleasure and its own control. Neither is the better saffron; they are the same saffron, ground or not.
How to use it
No steeping needed — that is the whole point of it. Stir a small pinch into a spoon of warm, not boiling, water, milk or stock and it blooms in a minute or two; or put it straight into a dough, a batter or a spice mix. Start with less than you would weigh out in threads. Nothing is held back in a strand that has not opened yet, so the same weight goes further.
Why the water test does not work on powder
It is the honest answer to an obvious question. Steep threads and the water turns gold slowly while the threads stay red; that is how you catch a dye. Powder colours the water instantly whatever it is made of, so the test that protects you on threads tells you nothing here. That is exactly why powder is the easiest form of saffron to cut with turmeric, safflower or a filler — and why the check has to happen before the mill, not in your kitchen. Ours is milled from our own threads, after they have been graded, and nothing is put back in. If you would rather verify it yourself, buy the threads and run the test.
Storage
Lid tight, cool cupboard, never the fridge and never a windowsill. The glass is clear, so the cupboard is doing the work light-proofing does elsewhere. A powder has far more surface than a thread, which is what makes it disperse so well and also what makes it fade faster once it is open — buy the size you will cook through, not the size that looks generous.
Delivery
Collect from the boutique at Nation Towers Mall, Abu Dhabi — collection is always free. Delivery anywhere in the UAE is arranged in the WhatsApp conversation, and we agree the timing with you before the order leaves us. The jar is dry and sealed, so distance is not the constraint it is for the fresh sweets.
Want to see the threads before they were ground? Saffron Threads →
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