4 x Madras in one pot

[Peripatetic Phil]

.....and for what it is worth, my own experience on more than one occasion is that simply doubling the ingredients does not work and quadrupling even less so. I have however made two single dishes and combined the two and it has been fine.

Absolutely : I can think of no reason at all why combining two separately cooked single portions to make a double portion could be anything other than a complete success; but the alchemy that underlies the scaling of the ingredients as the portion size is increased remains a mystery, to me at least . . .

** Phil.

[RubyDoo]

Ok.  I think this is probably now best left to the content of the other thread which you kindly provided a link to and which i have now read in full. 

[Secret Santa]

No mystery. As I've explained before, if you double or treble the ingredients and you get a different result it's because you've cooked it differently, it's that simple.

Were that not the case, again as said before (and undoubtedly will have to be said again), by the time your up to ten times the quantity or higher, you wouldn't need any spices at all! Reductio ad absurdum wins the day once again. 

[RubyDoo]

Not even going to nose that bait  . Its all been said  ;D