If tandoor-cooked tikka is so much better out of a tandoor (using gas and lava stones - with no charcoal in sight), how is it that so much tikka bought from BIRs who use tandoors, is not as good as tikka cooked at home on a domestic grill or simple barbecue
Change your restaurant George, it must be (4 letter word)!
You are clearly getting riled by my doubts about the taste benefits of a tandoor. It suggests to me that I might have a point. I find it highly unlikely that taste, aroma and other similar aspects are improved by cooking in a tandoor, rather than by using a barbecue or domestic oven.
Your Indian barbecue box and tandoor look great, and would be fantastic for social gatherings. All I'm suggesting is that the taste and aroma of the food seems unlikely to make it worth the purchase cost and storage space required, unless it's for social gatherings.
I don't, of course, refer to just one Indian restaurant. I mean dozens and dozens of places I've visited all around the world, over many years. As Blade said, his tikka is "better than the BIRs" (when cooked on a domestic stove). I agree with him.