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The discussion focuses on the best places to buy onions for cooking, with several users recommending Asian stores and local fruit shops for better quality and prices compared to supermarkets. Participants share specific prices they have found, highlighting deals such as 10kg of onions for 99p and 4kg for 69p, indicating a consensus that shopping at specialized stores or wholesalers yields better value and quality for ingredients used in curry preparation.

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Offline chewytikka

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14.12.14 - Onions
« on: December 14, 2014, 01:35 PM »
Buying onions like I do for Garabi/Base

Checking prices
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Offline Madrasandy

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Re: 14.12.14 - Onions
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2014, 04:02 PM »
yep couldn't agree more, when possible I always buy my onions fro the Asian stores, if not I get them from the local fruit shop, better quality than supermarket
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Offline Invisible Mike

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Re: 14.12.14 - Onions
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2014, 05:48 PM »
Chewy do you think the Dutch ones make a better base than English?
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Offline london

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Re: 14.12.14 - Onions
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2014, 06:37 PM »
The last time I got onions they were 69p for 4KG from an asian shop, plenty to make a batch of base sauce and bhajis, win win.
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Offline chewytikka

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Re: 14.12.14 - Onions
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2014, 07:57 PM »
Bit of a no brainer, Shop where Restaurants shop! or wholesale for the best deal.

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Offline Unclefrank

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Re: 14.12.14 - Onions
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2014, 09:47 AM »
I get 10kg onions for 99p at Warley Wines Wednesbury, haven't had any problems so far, i did use Sandhars in Dudley for a few years but Warley Wines are a lot cheaper and it's not far from where i live.
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Re: 14.12.14 - Onions
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2014, 12:14 PM »
Frank, 99p = 10kg, their practically paying you to take them away.
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Offline loveitspicy

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Re: 14.12.14 - Onions
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2014, 12:53 PM »
amazing price UF wish i could get them that cheap out here

best, Rich
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Offline Unclefrank

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Re: 14.12.14 - Onions
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2014, 03:10 PM »
I do get about 5-6 onions which i have to throw away but that's it, made JB's base with the last batch and had no trouble with taste.
Going to Warley Wines tonight to pick up some stuff for orders i have, red peepers and green peppers are around 15p-20p cheaper per kilo, fresh coriander is 2 bunches for 1 GBP but i just finely chop it and it goes a long way.
Trying to find this "Fish Masala Powder" that they use in this Prawn dish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOXWQILTHic&list=UUcdB4rUHHTViRkO07dofbhA

Not too sure if it's just a masala powder for coating the fish or whether it actually contains real fish made into a powder
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Offline DalPuri

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Re: 14.12.14 - Onions
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2014, 03:24 PM »
Hi UF, its basically celery salt. I had to buy some for the group test. (Rajah Fish Seasoning)
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