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Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: rockyholland on July 26, 2011, 09:23 AM
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Found this while trolling ebay for used tandoors.
I haven't seen these before, anybody with any knowledge of this product?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tandoor-tandoori-oven-roti-chapati-naan-pizza-maker-/150634675254?pt=UK_AudioElectronicsVideo_Video_TelevisionSetTopBoxes&hash=item231286bc36 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tandoor-tandoori-oven-roti-chapati-naan-pizza-maker-/150634675254?pt=UK_AudioElectronicsVideo_Video_TelevisionSetTopBoxes&hash=item231286bc36)
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No, but the feedback is good. However, before buying, I would be inclined to ask previous buyers whether they have successfully cooked tandoori chicken (or tikka) in the oven, rather than just the breads at which it seems to be aimed (if it is your intention to cook meat as well as bread in the oven, that is).
** Phil.
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Found this while trolling ebay for used tandoors.
I haven't seen these before, anybody with any knowledge of this product?
It looks like nothing more than a standard electric oven. Lidl sell them from time to time for about ?30. I've used one to cook bread successfully so there's no reason it wouldn't cook naans and tikkas. It gets hot inside but that doesn't make it a tandoor. The tray and size of the oven are not large enough to cook a very large pizza.
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Nice gadget but not enough room in the kitchen ;D. Think i'll either go for the tandoor or the nipoori myself :)
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Hi
Thanks for posting the link. At first appearance it does looks reasonable.
However, there is no specification to say what the maximum temperature that this device can reach is. Can't find anything on a web search either.
Considering the thing costs
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Has anyone found any further information ive googled it and come up with nothing except the ebay listing
best, Rich
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Hi
Have you tried YouTube, there may be an on line add.
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I did try the Google / Youtube routes for info (not the feedback one yet, good thinking!) but to no avail.
I already have a Nipoori, bought it when they first came out & never looked back, but bread is the let down with them.
A comment from George "It gets hot inside but that doesn't make it a tandoor" made me re think what does make the tandoor flavour?
Tandoors are made with clay or steel internals, powered by charcoal or gas, so basically have just one thing in common - high cooking temperature.
If this particular oven can reach 400 deg + it surely must achieve the same results as a real tandoor.
Will post if I can find any valid 'test' results from one of these things.
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Hi
If you put electric tandoori in YouTube search, you will find a vid for making pizza
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Considering the thing costs
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The above product looks very expensive compared to the Lidl model and it's probably not guaranteed for 3 years like the Lidl one, either.
A word of advice : always Sellotape the Lidl receipt to the item in question -- they will always honour their warranty (even at day 364 of year 3) but only if you can produce the receipt. No other "proof of purchase" will be accepted, not even an itemised credit card bill.
** Phil.
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Considering the thing costs
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I just found this old leaflet extract from 2009 when the price had gone back down to the GBP19.99 which I paid c2006.
AND this one (2009) is fan assisted - it says so in the advert - so perhaps my earlier model (2006) is fan assisted after all. I think it shows what a rip-off the GBP100 one is.
(http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/imagehost/pics/cad633ff45b636780503659e2279333e.jpg) (http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/imagehost/#cad633ff45b636780503659e2279333e.jpg)
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Hi
The YouTube vid shows the model from the OP, the top of the oven is one large hot plate.
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The YouTube vid shows the model from the OP, the top of the oven is one large hot plate.
I would go along with that : the photograph from Ebay (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=150634675254)and the Youtube video (http://youtu.be/OCMOx6UbMnk?t=46s) at 00:00:47 do indeed seem remarkably similar !
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The YouTube vid shows the model from the OP, the top of the oven is one large hot plate.
What a good idea, and a facility that I'll now be adding to my Lidl oven. I always knew the top of the oven gets very hot but I didn't think of using it to pre-heat pizza dough or anything else. I have some thin, non-stick, flexible sheeting which I can use in between the painted surface of the oven's top plate and a pizza or whatever. The heat goes straight up from the upper heating element. There's no insulation in between.
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George. You could place an old Rovers biscuit tin on top and then have a double oven. Or puncture some holes in the tin, put in some hickory wood chippings, utilise the grill rack from the lower oven and then you could slowly smoke slices of beef whilst your Yorkshire pudding cooks beneath. Or buy a Nipoori oven, discard the bottom halve, locate the top cone on to your unit and then you would have an electric tandoor to tikka your chicken whilst cooking naan breads in the lower oven at the same time - I can just see the patent office rubbing their hands already.
Bon idea.