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[QUESTION] What are your favorite spices to use in soups?
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I'm so glad this helps for you!
I really enjoy just eyeballing things and making it up as I go, but I know not everyone likes to cook that way. I can absolutely see how trying to measure out a bunch of various spices would be tedious as fuck 😅
This still applies to feelers, though; you can still feel out the ratios for the spice mix. The point is, either way, the spice mix is just 1 jar that you dump out onto the meal instead of 5.
It really doesn't, because the spice profile added to any dish should be reflective of the individual ingredient(a) taste, and it doesn't matter what you buy and when nothing ever has a uniformity in its chemical properties. You can get two tomatoes off the same vine that are completely different acidity, just as one example.
So when people like me add spicing freeform, it's because we are interfacing with the dish as it comes together, and we know what it needs more, or less of.
Gotcha. To be fair, I actually use your individual method and have never made a spice mix, either, but that's more because I'm too habituated to make one—not because I don't think it'd work (since I don't often taste-test anyway).