Topic: Maliks Indian restaurant LIVE CAM!

[chowie]

I've just have seen speed problems yes, think to many of us are watching, it was ok yesterday.

Plus i now have means of recording this video, just ran a test  ;D

Edit; It's gone down 

[Bobby Bhuna]

I have to admit that I am completely bamboolzed by this. I've just seen him get a giant pan of onions, take a plastic tub of something from under the sink, stick it in the flames of the cooker, then pour it in. He then came back with the tub filled with oil, put some in, and burnt some kind of a stick (looked like casia) and put it somewhere high up behind the spices and left it there.

[Jeera]

I have to admit that I am completely bamboolzed by this. I've just seen him get a giant pan of onions, take a plastic tub of something from under the sink, stick it in the flames of the cooker, then pour it in. He then came back with the tub filled with oil, put some in, and burnt some kind of a stick (looked like casia) and put it somewhere high up behind the spices and left it there.

Hi mate,

I saw it too Bobby. Here's my take

1. The 1st plastic tub was 1/4 full of hardened Ghee - he was heating the tub to melt and it up, then added to the base.
2. The cassia stick was one of those gas lighter devices - he used it to light the flame under the pan, then put it back on the shelf above :-)

[Bobby Bhuna]

I saw it too Bobby. Here's my take

I thought about it being Ghee, but to melt it that well surely the plastic tub would have melted... Perhaps that tub is metal.

You right about the stick thing though for sure. Any idea what spices he put in? Looked like cumin or coriander to me.

[Jeera]

I seen him put in significant amounts of every spice in (except the first 2).

Also noticed he definately use reclaimed oil from their finished base to make every curry - watch him scoop out 1/2 chef spoon of the stuff each time.

This is brilliant.

[Bobby Bhuna]

I tell what I noticed - base into curry pan, a few minutes go by and it's sauce back into base pan. Nuts! Probably getting some oil off and getting the consistency!

[George]

I've just have seen speed problems yes, think to many of us are watching, it was ok yesterday.

We won't have helped, with the level of interest generated here! The greater the demand on their server's bandwidth, the more problems can arise for any one subscriber, I guess.

Right now, the chefs seem to have disappeared. They can't close as early as 10pm, surely.

Earlier, I saw him prepare one dish, using what looked on two separate base sauces - a greenish looking sauce on the left and the yellow one on the right.

[Secret Santa]

We're like kids in a bloody sweet shop! It's great eh?  ;D

The first thing that sprung to my mind was...how the hell are you going to replicate all that stuff that happened with the base sauce when you go for SnS's 100 quid demo?
I don't think you will. What we are seeing is the missing 5%. The 'bung everything in the base' technique, probably including some leftovers from the restaurant meals (I mean that seriously and not in a bad way).

SnS's demo will just not do this because the restaurant will not be going full tilt.

This really is the missing 5%.

And did you see the difference in colour between the nearly finished pot of base and the new pot? Tell me that isn't going to make a difference!  Did he add it to the new pot...something we've hinted at before?

[joshallen2k]

how the hell are you going to replicate all that stuff that happened with the base sauce

I haven't been able to see the video, but the comments from those who have seem to focus on the base.

Could someone explain what it is they are seeing?

[George]

And did you see the difference in colour between the nearly finished pot of base and the new pot? Tell me that isn't going to make a difference!  Did he add it to the new pot...something we've hinted at before?

Was that the two pots I mentioned from 6pm or 7pm? There was a large-ish pot rear left of the hob, half full of a greenish looking 'base' or whatever. Plus the larger pot rear centre of the hob, full of yellow-ish looking base. At least, it looked a bit yellow at 6pm or 7pm. Now it looks darker, at 10:30pm!