Curry Recipes Online
Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: Secret Santa on August 28, 2015, 02:14 PM
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Far, far away if my experience is anything to go by.
Having to resort to buying online from theasiancookshop as part of a large order because I just can't source these locally any more. Anyway, does anyone know where I can buy online in small quantities without having to make up the order to a much bigger one to avoid a huge post and packing charge?
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Had these saved in my wish list from before I made the trip to brick lane.
90g is quite a lot, they do other amounts also.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00C9YHIR8/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1ISI5HYBILGRD&coliid=I2ZN7V2JQIMM1N (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00C9YHIR8/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1ISI5HYBILGRD&coliid=I2ZN7V2JQIMM1N)
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Nice one DalPuri, that's just the ticket. I did look on eBay but didn't find anything really cheap unless I wanted to buy shed loads from India. Didn't even think to look on Amazon! ::)
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You're welcome SS.
I think 90g for 4 quid was the best value anyway.
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You're welcome SS.
I think 90g for 4 quid was the best value anyway.
It's still bloomin expensive stuff though isn't it. That's over ?40 per kilo! :o
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There's no fundamental reason they should be expensive, they're just leaves after all. Sounds like a case of an inefficient supply route with too many opportunistic mark ups being applied.
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Schwartz Bay Leaves Refill 6G from Tesco 1.39 = 231 quid a Kilo.
London.
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There's no fundamental reason they should be expensive, they're just leaves after all. Sounds like a case of an inefficient supply route with too many opportunistic mark ups being applied.
You could say that about a lot of things though. :(
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Yeah like cuddles from my girlfriend...
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Schwartz Bay Leaves Refill 6G from Tesco 1.39 = 231 quid a Kilo.
SS is looking for Tej Patta leaves whereas the Schwartz product is completely different, from the European Bay Laurel tree, so they won't do at all.
Why anyone attached the 'bay' name to Tej Patta leaves, is beyond me. It's so misleading.
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I think, George, that the reference to Schwartz bay-leaf refills was solely with reference to price; it had earlier been pointed out that /tej patta/ can cost over
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Spot on Phil.
London.
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Not Expensive at all ::)
Imported to UK from Bangladesh, Tej Patta are one of the cheapest spice packets on the shelves.
69p - 50g packet - and it takes months to use them up, even if you cooked Indian food everyday.
Simply marketed as Bay Leaf for the Western/UK market.
Tip: Find an Asian Supermarket which serves a Bangladeshi community and restaurant trade.
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Had these saved in my wish list from before I made the trip to brick lane.
90g is quite a lot, they do other amounts also.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00C9YHIR8/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1ISI5HYBILGRD&coliid=I2ZN7V2JQIMM1N (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00C9YHIR8/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1ISI5HYBILGRD&coliid=I2ZN7V2JQIMM1N)
If anyone else is tempted to purchase Tej Patta from these guys - don't!
They look the part but they are totally flavourless. Mine have gone back for a refund.
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Sorry about that SS :-\
If I was in London, I would've gone to brick lane and bought a bucketful for you and whoever else needed em.
Never seen them up here in Scotland.
This is one of the reasons why I wanted to start another thread last year entitled "I'm off to the shops, anybody want anything?"
It was Phil that got me thinking when he paid a tenner online for a 2 quid jar of pickle!
Instead of just offering advice, how about grabbing a few extras when we're all out shopping and sending it at cost to those that are struggling to find certain ingredients?
Get some community spirit back into this forum.
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This is one of the reasons why I wanted to start another thread last year entitled "I'm off to the shops, anybody want anything?"
It was Phil that got me thinking when he paid a tenner online for a 2 quid jar of pickle!
Instead of just offering advice, how about grabbing a few extras when we're all out shopping and sending it at cost to those that are struggling to find certain ingredients? Get some community spirit back into this forum.
I like the idea, Frank, and am more than happy to help, but are you sure it was I that paid ten quid for a two pound jar of pickle ? I do buy my pickles online, but they are catering jars (2,3kg) which I have never seen in a shop for anything like two quid !
** Phil.
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It was you Phil. It might not have been pickle, but it was a standard sized jar of something that cost nigh on a tenner.
Might have been an Amazon link?
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Sorry about that SS :-\
Not your fault DP. You clearly said you hadn't tried them yourself so it was always going to be a chancey purchase for me.
So what brands are other people buying and how do they rate?
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As in: Whoooah!
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As in: Whoooah!
Ok, so I now know what kattis was saying. But why was she saying it? What was she whoooaing at?
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You for suggesting the 'falcon superstore' was anything but super, perhaps SS :D
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I cannot help but feel that any debate taking place on 01-Nov-2015 as to what a very infrequent contributor might or might not have meant by a message dated 12-Sep-2015 can only be a further indication of the terminally moribund state of this forum ...
** Phil.
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Where's everyone gone then?
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Where's everyone gone then?
I think they just got very very bored, Onions. The forum these days seem to be to be nothing more than a place on which to display photographs of one's food in the (fairly certain) hope that others will comment on how wonderful it looks and how tasty it must be. Informed debate and new recipes seem to be a thing of the past, sad to say.
** Phil.
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I'm thinking of trying a balti but they look just a little bit more complex... any view?
I'll take a nice shiney photograph of it of course!
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I'm thinking of trying a balti but they look just a little bit more complex... any view?
Unfortunately my regular visits to the Black Country stopped before the Balti Triangle came into existence, so I have never had the opportunity to try the real thing.
** Phil.
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Either way, sticking with JB's at the moment. Too late on a Sunday afternoon to begin experimenting.
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Sorry about that SS :-\
So what brands are other people buying and how do they rate?
I got my last on eBay in a 25g bag, which doesn't sound much but is plenty and has lasted me 3 months. Best quality ones I've found too and you do have to be careful as there's some "old stock" floating around in some of the shops I think.
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I got my last on eBay in a 25g bag, which doesn't sound much but is plenty and has lasted me 3 months. Best quality ones I've found too and you do have to be careful as there's some "old stock" floating around in some of the shops I think.
Do you have a link to the ones you bought DB? I had a look on eBay but they seem ridiculously expensive, ?3.70 for 25g and I'm a bit wary of buying unknown brands after my last experience!
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Don't have a link but must be the same one you found I guess - ?3.69 with free postage and 25g is a pretty big bag full. I only use a couple of leaves each time I cook, maybe a fraction of a gram so there's a good 6 months supply for a few quid. I'm ok with that. Dunno about brand because they're unmarked but the leaves I received are fine.