Topic: How much would you be willing to pay?

[lorrydoo]

I was thinking the other day about my local BIR and how much I would be willing to pay for their recipe for a Madras/vindaloo.  It would have to be 100% guaranteed to recreate their recipe to the point that it would be indistinguishable from their own every time.   I would also have to be able to make it in my own kitchen.

After pondering on this for a while, I would probably be willing to pay ?100.

What would you be willing to pay for your favourite dish from your favourite BIR using my wish list above? 

[George]

What would you be willing to pay for your favourite dish from your favourite BIR using my wish list above? 

Good question! About GBP25 perhaps, if the recipe really worked!

I say GBP because if I type a pound sign it comes out as a question mark!

Regards
George

[haldi]

I have been down this road
The problems I encountered were:-
The staff can't speak English very well, so you can't be understood
One chap thought I wanted to buy a vindaloo, when I actually wanted to be shown how to cook it
I did end up buying one (but it was very good)
They tell you how to make a "very nice curry" at home, but its "homestyle"
They don't want to be paid for this information, and are slightly insulted
Also ,and probably most important, noone except us lot ever attempt it
They don't use curry gravy at home and don't understand the problems you get

One of the best things I did was go to Bengal Cuisine in London
http://www.bengalcuisine.net/default1.php?id=4
It cost twenty five pounds for the lesson, but at least you were sure you were going to definitely be shown something

I've been let down loads of times because chef was too busy

But in answer to your question, I think it's easily worth 100 pounds for a full demo.
Learn how to make a full size curry gravy base
Learn how to precook meat, chicken and veg
Learn what spices are used and how to blend ginger/garlic (if used)
Learn to cook the final curry

[lorrydoo]

Some good points there Haldi but in my original question was hypothetical and the recipe you would be buying would have to tick every box on your personal wish list for a home made BIR.  My one hundred pound offer would be a bargain if I could get exactly what I want.

[onion]

The money I spend on curry, I would be willing to pay more than 100.
As you say though you would need to guarantee a result that is consistant each time.

You never know a BIR chef may read this and begin to rub hands together and make an offer 

One thought, should we discover the answers we are looking for, what then, KFC secret herbs and spices recipe ;D just kidding

Onion

[George]

You never know a BIR chef may read this and begin to rub hands together and make an offer 

I expect the production company which makes Heston B's 'In Search of Perfection' series for BBC2 would have offered a lot more than GBP100 to a BIR which was prepared to explain how they make Chicken Tikka Masala. I assume they couldn't find anywhere, so they must have spent thousands and thousands of pounds transporting Heston B and an entire film crew out to India, instead!

Regards
George

[slimboyfat]

100? is ok not what I would call a compromising amount of cash for someone to give you the ?family jewels?

Lets say we got ten of use to each put in 100? i.e. 1000? now that is what I would call a decent sum of cash find a restaurant chef who is willing to play ball and then send one or two of the more on the compos mentis members off to get the secret!

I think anything less is quite frankly an insult !

[Cory Ander]

I'd be up for that SBF!

I think 1000 quid (grrrrrr!  Stew, PLEASE can you fix the "?" problem!  ) is cheap for genuine tried, tested, VERIFIED AND VALIDATED, reproducible BIR curry recipes e.g. a curry base recipe plus two main dishes...a madras (or vindaloo) and a korma (or chicken tikka masala).

Let's get 20 of us and offer 2000 quid! (grrrrr! STEW! )

Face it guys, many of us have been pursuing this "holy grail" for 10, 20, 30 and 40 years!  It's got to be worth that much!  :

PS:  ......and I don't mean for recipes like those from "other" curry sites!   :

[Graeme]

you cant do it, its in the fabric...
you need to buy the carpets and furniture.

shut up graeme :-) okay i hear you.

  :-X

[extrahotchillie]

Nothing that right Nothing I like the rest of you have been too many restaurants and had many takeaways and I can say mine are better; far better I wouldn't pay these jokers that are running the modern restaurants or takeaways a single penny. The last sit down Indian I had was three weeks ago in Beverley "it was crap".

Looking at some of the pictures on this forum I believe that most of us can cook better than these money grabbing jokers who are running around in their flash cars and buying up our property "I say feed their hunger for money no more" and stop buying the crap they are selling until they make a better effort like they did in the 70's and 80's there is no secret if there was why wasn't it passed down to these jokers that are selling it today?