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Title: Video of Chinois' Chicken Madras using ammended Ashoka Base
Post by: chinois on January 13, 2009, 07:32 PM
This is me cooking my interpretation of Chicken Madras at home.
My girlfriend filmed this on my phone and included some helpful tips. And I thought cameramen were supposed to remain silent...  ;)
I think the quality's ok for the purpose but dont make it fullscreen or you'll have pixelation all over the shop.

I feel i succeeded in immitating the light of bengal restaurant in winchester.
Recipe, info on the base and pastes, and photos can be found here:
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=3264.0

Here is the embedded video which should be shown in a box just below this text and will be streaming from youtube, where i uploaded it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6O-IdAcCs0

Or if that doesnt work: http://www.facebook.com/v/61024705774
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Post by: Unclebuck on January 13, 2009, 07:50 PM

Here is the embedded video which should be shown in a box just below this text and will be streaming from facebook, where i uploaded it.

http://www.facebook.com/v/61024705774

unless your a member of facebook i dont think the vid will work... if you send me the file ill host in my google vids account. UB.
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Post by: chinois on January 13, 2009, 08:35 PM
Sorted, should be working now. It's coming from youtube
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Post by: Yousef on January 13, 2009, 09:18 PM
I love it, well done.
You are now a legend as far as I am concerned.

The curry looks great, time for me to get the mobile phone out and record to.

Stew
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Post by: Bobby Bhuna on January 13, 2009, 10:17 PM
Awesome video mate! Great banter! Love how harsh you are to your camera woman lol. Do you think the MSG makes a difference?

Thanks very much - brilliant post!

BB
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Post by: Jeera on January 13, 2009, 10:44 PM
brilliant mate... i like your style.
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Post by: Cory Ander on January 13, 2009, 11:15 PM
Excellent video Chinois!  8)

Compliments to your "cameraman" too, she did a stirling job under difficult and trying circumstances  ;)
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Post by: joshallen2k on January 13, 2009, 11:23 PM
Best YouTube video I've seen all month. Great job!
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Post by: Bobby Bhuna on January 13, 2009, 11:54 PM
Cameraman "How much was that?"

Chinois "Yeah, about that f*****g much! Now why don't you shut the hell up!!!!"
Title: Re: Video of Chinois' Chicken Madras using ammended Ashoka Base
Post by: chinois on January 14, 2009, 12:01 PM
Awesome video mate! Great banter! Love how harsh you are to your camera woman lol. Do you think the MSG makes a difference?

Thanks very much - brilliant post!

Oops, it was a bit off now i look back! I wasnt expecting the cameraman to speak, that's my excuse! I'd like to say i tackle my percieved rudeness in my next video but Zan's just mentioned that the korma video has even more ignoring of her in it  :-[
It's a concentration thing rather than a grudge thing, honest! I cant be hassled when i'm cooking.
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Post by: parker21 on January 14, 2009, 01:06 PM
hi chinois
great video mate and great looking madras :) also we have the same frying pan, it is actually big enough for a 2 or 3 portion curry(do this on a regular basis) i got mine from my 1st visit to brick lane last year 8.99 in the taj store it is brilliant and i asked the guy in the shop do they use them in the restaurants here and he said yes they do. it is heavey and retains the heat well and i love the way you know when it is hot enough the add the oil etc as it makes that expanding "ting" to it ;) i'm sure you know what i'm talking about. would recommend these pans to every BIR curryholic. also it is very easy to clean and nothing burns in it, unless you do something very wrong.

well done to your wife as well because cooking with a certain amount of chilli powder and the fumes can render everyone in the kitchen or surrounding area, except the chef, to cough uncontrollably. when i cook my vindaloos i have window and kitchen door to the outside open and the indoor kitchen door to the hallway closed firmly, but my wife and girls will all start coughing even when they are upstairs :o

anyway great job hope to see some more soon and if i manage to get someone brave enough wearing goggles and breathing equipment to film me then i will let you all know!
regards
gary
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Post by: Secret Santa on January 14, 2009, 02:51 PM
Great video chinois and you actually look not too dissimilar to me, you handsome thing!  ;D
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Post by: Unclebuck on January 14, 2009, 03:28 PM
Awesome post!!  ;D
love the commentary also
Thanks chinois

Title: Re: Video of Chinois' Chicken Madras using ammended Ashoka Base
Post by: chinois on January 14, 2009, 04:07 PM
we have the same frying pan, it is actually big enough for a 2 or 3 portion curry(do this on a regular basis) i got mine from my 1st visit to brick lane last year 8.99 in the taj store it is brilliant and i asked the guy in the shop do they use them in the restaurants here and he said yes they do. it is heavey and retains the heat well and i love the way you know when it is hot enough the add the oil etc as it makes that expanding "ting" to it ;) i'm sure you know what i'm talking about. would recommend these pans to every BIR curryholic. also it is very easy to clean and nothing burns in it, unless you do something very wrong.

Thanks Gary, and it sounds like exactly the same pan. Mine was ?9 from Taj as well  ;D
Heavy aluminium which, as you say, is very hard to burn anything in. The only chance is when you dont have enough oil.
I have an indian-style heavy iron 'balti' pan i bought from there too which looks cool but requires more care. The coating of machine oil the factory put on it is really hard to remove. I've soaked it, scrubbed it and seasoned it but it still smells like a steamtrain when heated  :-\
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Post by: SnS on January 14, 2009, 05:21 PM
Excellent work Chinois - well done to you both.

SnS
Title: Re: Video of Chinois' Chicken Madras using ammended Ashoka Base
Post by: chinois on January 14, 2009, 06:12 PM
Great video chinois and you actually look not too dissimilar to me, you handsome thing!  ;D

Thank you sir, what can i say!  ;D
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Post by: Panpot on January 14, 2009, 07:15 PM
Thanks too Chinois ,fantastic video and must be a wonderful thing for all the newbies who find us, you have lifted this amazing site to even higher levels. You make it look so easy and your entire technique particularly the constant wrist action with the pan I will use next time cool. Gary thanks for the heads up on the pan form Brick lane, I now have a real reason to go back, cheers.
Title: Re: Video of Chinois' Chicken Madras using ammended Ashoka Base
Post by: chinois on January 15, 2009, 01:32 AM
You make it look so easy and your entire technique particularly the constant wrist action with the pan

erm, no comment!
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Post by: Curry King on January 15, 2009, 02:47 PM
Great video, really inspires you to want to knock up a curry, might have to when I get home even though I made on last night  8)
Title: Re: Video of Chinois' Chicken Madras using ammended Ashoka Base
Post by: qprbob on February 27, 2009, 12:42 PM
Great video chinois
Watching you cook that Madras is a great help. Well done to the camera woman as well. It looked that good, I could almost smell it coming from the monitor.
Title: Re: Video of Chinois' Chicken Madras using ammended Ashoka Base
Post by: chinois on March 08, 2009, 05:24 PM
Great video chinois
Watching you cook that Madras is a great help. Well done to the camera woman as well. It looked that good, I could almost smell it coming from the monitor.

cheers bob!
I found some of the videos i've seen misleading as they were slowed down, apparantly for easier following by the viewer. In my opinion this adds to the confusion so i wanted to try and replicate how it is done in the restaurants. Obviously they each vary but i wanted to highlight the speed and heat generally used.
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Post by: The Apprentice on February 14, 2010, 06:55 AM
What a hottie , oh and the curry too!
Title: Re: Video of Chinois' Chicken Madras using ammended Ashoka Base
Post by: the chod on October 08, 2011, 09:10 PM
hi
i know this post is nearly 120 days old ,but i had to let people know about an interesting blog this chap(chinois) is doing at the moment
www.nickirvinefortescue.wordpress.com (http://www.nickirvinefortescue.wordpress.com)
check it out, it is brilliant.....
ps
If you email him and get this recipe in pdf ,it is very insightfull

thanks
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Post by: PaulP on October 09, 2011, 03:27 PM
Thanks for the link. Looks like he is having an adventure of a lifetime.

A lucky and a plucky guy!

Title: Re: Video of Chinois' Chicken Madras using ammended Ashoka Base
Post by: Razor on October 10, 2011, 12:11 PM
Hi guys,

Checked this out last night and gave it a good read.  Brilliant stuff. I wish I had the balls to do something similar.

Ray :)