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Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: meggeth on March 01, 2013, 12:37 AM
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cr0 has been noticed by some irish foody guy!! Says our curries must all taste very similar because we're using a base! Cheeky. But then he adds his own base recipe.
http://toastedspecial.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/best-basic-base-indian-curry-sauce-recipe-for-freezing/ (http://toastedspecial.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/best-basic-base-indian-curry-sauce-recipe-for-freezing/)
He does have quite a few indian recipes on there.
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I don't understand why he has gone to the length to promote CR0 then say it's utter nonsense. Why argue that our dishes will 'taste the same' as we use one base, then promote his own base that can make many different curries, its a total contradiction. He's probably been eating too much horse meat! ;D
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cr0 has been noticed by some irish foody guy!! Says our curries must all taste very similar because we're using a base! Cheeky. But then he adds his own base recipe.
http://toastedspecial.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/best-basic-base-indian-curry-sauce-recipe-for-freezing/ (http://toastedspecial.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/best-basic-base-indian-curry-sauce-recipe-for-freezing/)
He does have quite a few indian recipes on there.
The only thing I am sure of having read this is that this person has never eaten a BIR meal, he goes out of his way not to write in a first person sense.
Therefore he has no conception of BIR vs traditional Indian food and is just playing guessing games.
Not worthy of any further discussion.
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6 cans of tomatoes. Guy must be keen to promote the Irish Tomato industry :)
The most notable occasion when I had several dishes that tasted very similar to each other was at an Australian restaurant a couple of years ago when 3 curries were almost identical apart from the meat ingredient, chicken/goat whatever. I guess that came from the base.
In AIR cooking a number of separate bases are prepared - Madras, Butter, Vindaloo, Nut and so on and are much more intense in flavour than UK bases. Each base is used for a particular "family" of curries. That's all well and good if you order say a Madras, a Butter Chicken and a Vindaloo, but as happened to me if you order 3 that happen to be in one "family" you can get a sameness.
Point I'm making is that in the case of those 3 curries (forget exactly which ones) if they had been done on in a BIR kitchen they would no doubt all have tasted quite distinct despite the use of a common base, as more distinctive special ingredients would have gone into each finished dish. So "one base makes them taste all the same" is BS.
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Is this not a similar principal to the Glasgow Base? ( yes , remember that ;) ) a highly spiced and potentially very tasty sauce but which is for the best part a finished sauce and not a base. It follows that there is more likelihood that every dish will taste the same than there is with the majority of more 'neutral' bases promoted on CRO?
A base is exactly that, a base or single layer of flavour to be built upon.
...........and yes, bit tomatoey? I wonder if they do a PaddyAloo? ;)
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The AIR approach was posted on here a while back by a chap called Mark, one base was a cashew nut base if I recall rightly. I don't recall the approach being similar to the Glasgow base though.
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In my opinion, his opening critique is detached, factual and accurate. Only the very last part ("Surely all of their curries must taste the same ?") of
While I admire the dedication of these enthusiasts, I can
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Ye God's,
That's a lot of spices for 1 kilo of onions, never mind the 6 tin's of tomatoes. very similar to the rick stein base by admin, except more spices and tomatoes added :o
surely his curry's must all taste the same also. (even more so)
Les
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Well, I've just left a comment. How can he/she suggest that all our curries would taste the same then, offer a recipe for his/her own base gravy and give suggestions on how to make Madras, Vindy and so on?
How can he/she think that their gravy and recipes would be any different to ours in terms of producing curries that would all taste the same?
Anyway, I've asked them to try one of our gravy's and dishes, and do a review on the forum, I won't hold my breath though!
Ray ;)
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Anyway, I've asked them to try one of our gravy's and dishes, and do a review on the forum, I won't hold my breath though!
Ray ;)
Like your good self Ray, Can not see that ever happening :o
Les
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Razor - where did you leave a comment, I can't see it under the base gravy page?
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Hi Meggeth,
You may not be able to see it yet as it has to be approved!
Here it is (copied & pasted);
Hi, Interesting base gravy. Some very big and bold flavours in there!
I would just like to pick you up on your comment about
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I just posted this on the site:
"Re: The comments about the currys tasting the same due to the base sauce on the cr0 website. You may chuckle but we want to create the same food as we get from British Indian takeaways and restaurants. It
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Why argue that our dishes will 'taste the same' as we use one base, then promote his own base that can make many different curries...
Why? To be sure, to be sure! ;D
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Why? To be sure, to be sure! ;D
Spoken like a true Kerry man :D
Les
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I live in Dublin these days and I can say that the author of this blog doesn't appear to be referring to BIR, but generic indian takeaway cooking which locally would be the pakistani style, which is the predominant nationality behind these takeaways.
I didn't read the whole article, but I found it funny that he "cracked" a recipe (http://toastedspecial.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/best-basic-base-indian-curry-sauce-recipe-for-freezing/) for a micro-waveable product from a relatively famous chain of takeaways in Dublin (The bombay pantry) which I had the chance to try recently and wasn't anything worth raving about, though it was largely better than the microwaveable crap sold by the-coop. Sadly, though, I never got around to try the actual takeaway restaurant, but a lot of people claim it to be among the best service/food wise (I still can't believe they will have anything in common with BIR.) they don't deliver to my area, though a friend of mine works for them so I might convince him to bring me a curry next time he's around tuesday.
My experience in Dublin is that takeaways favor the "like it saucy" style. I have a takeaway next door that is run by pakistani. Besides being over-priced, it is quite disappointing too. No difference in taste from a Madras, Vindaloo, Jalfrezi or even their very own "india house special" ... all the same. I have to write a review on the restaurants to avoid section some day!
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Hi
That sauce recipe says to me, more Balti than BIR.
Regards