Can't beleive Ive just bought some of this. Has anybody used it and if so what's it like.

Vinda...

Try it and let us know 

KP(V)

Have tried most of Pataks sauces and found them to be OK but not as good as Curry's I am now making thanks to this site. Definitely nothing like a BIR Madras........

                                             ;D ;D ;D

Theres a difference between sauces and pastes. I would never go near their sauces. Have you tried their pastes as some people use them, along with some takeaways and resaurants apparently, for some reason I still can't understand why they would use Pataks but who am I to say.

I have tried them...and .... Yuuuuch, except for their Tikka paste and Kashmiri paste.  Ferns and Simtom are the best for me.  A lot of BIRs around the Midlands use Simtom I am told and a few down here seem to be moving that way.

CP

I can't stand Pataks pastes or sauces, some restaurants so use the pastes for marinades and the like but I'm not so sure about them going into the currys.  I once had a curry from somewhere in brighton and could actualy taste the stuff :-X

How long did it take you to recover CK ;D

Don't get me wrong i'm sure it is used a lot by BIR's but this paticular curry actualy tasted of it.  There was a guy back in the in2curry days who told us that a certain BIR method was to use a 50\50 mix of yogurt and pataks tandoori paste, a tablespoon of this mix went in every curry.  You couldn't taste it but it added a certain zing, I don't use it at all now though.

cK

I think there is a recipe for a sheek kebab on here that uses pataks madras paste, I have some and used it to make that recipe and it was great (Laynes I think)