Quote from: Bengali Bob on July 09, 2013, 10:16 AM
Still waiting for my kashmiri chilli plants to flower.  Planted the seeds in January.  Grew nicely in plastic TA containers.  Split them up into more containers.  Seemed to have stopped growing now though.  Fed them with tomato feed, half dose. Look nice and healthy, but no flowers.

Rob 

Rob

Strange should be flowering by now - where have you kept them? - not been very active lately so you might have covered this in a recent thread so sorry if I've missed it.

I planted my Kashmiri's late January aswell - cant believe the amount of flowers relative to the size of plant - some chilli's fruiting just this week.

Quote from: diverdil on July 03, 2013, 10:41 PM
to cater for so many will be near impossible. what curry caters for all?
....

Just doing 1 generic chicken curry

I like a challenge!!!

Quote from: Phil [Chaa006] on July 03, 2013, 01:53 PM
OMG -- I do not envy you one iota !
** Phil.

Come to think of it Phil nor do I - I must be mad  :-X

Quote from: vindapoo on July 03, 2013, 02:37 PM
I frequently cook for 20 or so people for family get togethers, what I do is use a aluminium frying pan double the size of a normal one and then cook a double batch in it. So in effect 1 cook is 5/6 meals. I do this 4-5 times (takes 30 mins) and its enough to fill a steel (catering) bucket which I then keep warm on a couple tea lights indoors. You may need more heat outdoors, a gas bbq or similar. Same deal for the rice albeit its a doddle using the pressure cooker.

Pressure cooker - hhhmm now thats a good idea

Going to use 2 x 15 lt stainless pots on 2 large propane tar burners - so heat will not be a problem!!!

Quote from: Bengali Bob on July 03, 2013, 02:03 PM
The forum member 976bar worked at a University kitchen somewhere (I think) producing fine looking curries en masse.  Pretty sure he'd be able to offer some advice, but he's not posted for a while now.

Rob 

Thanks Rob - yeah I remember the thread now - not been around for a while so my visits have been few and far between so hopefully he will post some wise words of wisdom 

I've been tasked with cooking a curry sufficient to feed up to 100 people, has anyone experience of scaling the BIR cooking process we are all familiar with i.e. oil - garlic/ginger - tomato paste (50/50) - mix powder then adding gravy etc in a small pan etc.

I appreciate its generally accepted the process doesn't scale that well, so I was thinking of almost inversing the cooking process due to the volume of liquid involved.

So similar to bhagar or gravy enhancement methods frying off large quantities of g/g paste - tom puree/passata - mix powder etc then quenching with gravy and adding back into the stock pot until the right amount of spice has been added then simmering overnight!

Anymore than that I'll post some pictures of my escapades!!!

I've tried lemon lime vinegar and found tamarind sauce to give the best result - closest I've got to a restaurant vindaloo - use 2 tsp of sauce and add it after the first ladle of base gravy - not got on very well with all that soaking of a block of tamarind then found it in a bottle in big T`s.
Appreciate the context of the thread was 're a traditional style recipe but this really works well for me

Quote from: StoneCut on March 19, 2013, 01:23 PM
Haha, thanks Mark. I'll be expecting the blue lights as I turn into our street later, then

No worries glad they arrived safely - keep us posted on progress

Quote from: Phil [Chaa006] on March 18, 2013, 10:24 AM

Quote from: StoneCut on March 18, 2013, 10:08 AM
Mark, did you send some to me ? So far nothing has arrived.

Currently being subjected to a forensic examination by a joint operation consisting of members of the Bundespolizei, the TSA and a hand-picked team of Zoll- und Steuerbeamteren

Think you might be onto something there!!!

Quote from: StoneCut on March 18, 2013, 10:08 AM
Mark, did you send some to me ? So far nothing has arrived.

Hi StoneCut - yeah sent them at the same time as I posted Commis's

Hang in there for a couple of days if nothing shows I'll send some more!!!