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Aroma. The volatile oils that carry the smell sit inside the intact seed or pod, and they start leaving the moment the spice is broken open - which is why a jar of pre-ground spice smells faint next to whole seed you crush under a knife. Whole also gives you two things ground cannot: you can toast it, and you can leave it in the pan whole and fish it out, which is how most tempered and slow-cooked dishes use it.

Dry pan, no oil, medium heat, keep it moving. You are waiting for the smell to change and the colour to deepen a shade, which usually takes under a minute or two - past that it turns bitter and there is no recovering it. Tip it straight out onto a cold plate so it stops cooking, let it cool completely, then grind. Grinding while warm gums up the mill.

No. Grind what you need for the next week or two and leave the rest whole. Whole spice holds its aroma for many months in a sealed jar; the same spice ground loses it in a fraction of that time, which is the whole reason for buying the whole form.

In a sealed airtight jar, somewhere cool, dark and dry - a cupboard away from the hob, not the shelf above it. Heat, light and steam are what flatten dry spices. Decant from the bag it arrives in rather than leaving it rolled shut, use a dry spoon every time, and keep the jar closed while you cook rather than open beside a steaming pan.

Read the best-before date on the pack - that is the manufacturer's, and the product page shows it as the store entered it. Past that, the question is aroma rather than safety: dry spices do not spoil so much as fade. Open the jar and smell it. If it smells of very little, it will taste of very little, and no amount of extra spooning brings it back.

Sealed containers, and a couple of days in the freezer when a pack arrives. Pantry moths usually come in with the goods rather than flying into your kitchen, so treating a pack on arrival catches the problem before it spreads along the shelf.

The ingredient list, any allergen statement, the country of origin and the best-before date, all of which are the manufacturer's to state and are printed on the packaging rather than reproduced here. The product page carries the weight, the barcode and the date as the store entered them.

Yes. DoorToShop is a multi-merchant marketplace, so this can go in the same cart as items from other local stores and you check out once.

Delivery is calculated at checkout, where the exact amount is confirmed. Free delivery applies above the threshold shown there, in the Auckland region only. There is no minimum order value, and you can combine items from other local stores in the same cart.