Topic: That Missing Something?

[emin-j]

even ask outright if you can watch your Curry being cooked , I did and he said ' Yes  )

The takeaways I frequent still look at me as if I'm going to rob them!    ;D

Asking for a kitchen demo just doesn't seem doable.

Perhaps it's cuz you look like a mad axe man 

[peterandjen]

I thought like you Secret Santa, that my local would never let me in the kitchen to watch, but i asked and they couldn't have been happier, personally i think its because they dont have anything to hide and want to show that.
The most important thing i have discovered in my search for a proper ruby murry cooked at home is that you seem to have to use a lot more oil/ghee than you would usually and then you dont serve the food until the oil has seperated from the dish.
I was wondering if this could be an indication of the spices having reached the correct level of cooking?

[Domi]

The takeaways I frequent still look at me as if I'm going to rob them!    ;D

Asking for a kitchen demo just doesn't seem doable.

That's more to do with you being a man of dubious aspect and sorry footwear Satan   ;D

[Secret Santa]

That's more to do with you being a man of dubious aspect and sorry footwear Satan   ;D

A man of sorry aspect and dubious footwear would be closer to the mark!  ;D

[JerryM]

Axe,

i feel we don't do enough of this. there are clearly members who aren't interested and that's up to them.

the processes are as u say a key part to this jigsaw and as far as i've read we don't have any common concensus. i have no problem with what others preferences are - it's about putting all our thoughts down and letting the individual members be the judge of how useful it is to them.

it also matters not what an individual places food tastes like - it's what u can learn from it that counts. it's often more important to know what not to do too.

i'm happy to privately discuss this further and also equally happy to start at the 1st process and take each in turn.

the trouble is u have no measure of how interested the greater membership of the forum are. i certainly believe some are only interested in the answer and not the journey. i know that just relying on an answer is not enough - it's like having a map with the edge u want torn off.

it's a key point for me as i now find myself posting less due to this growing perception rightly or wrongly.

[peterandjen]

Im really intersted in all the cookery processes relating to curries, equally as interested in the spices and ingredients used, so interested that i cooked and ate 7 balti's in 8 days quite recently, and the answer i got from this was that, i had a couple of eureka moments, 2 of the 7 curries had everything i was looking for. The other 5 were just bloody good meals.
From this i deduced that if i cooked curries everyday, or worked as a curry chef in a restaurant i would with constant practice, be able to produce a wicked balti most of the time but occasionaly i would do something slightly different and the result wouldn't be as good.
The opposite if you will of what happens to me now, occasionally i make a bang on curry because i hit on the right techniques/heat and spices, and the rest of the time i miss something.
Ive reached the stage now that i know, whatever i do, the curry i produce will be bloody lovely either way. So ive given up looking, i simply cant cook and eat enough curries to become perfect, so will settle for enjoying the experience and being happier when i have a eureka moment.

[CurryOnRegardless]

The average chef in a BIR or T/A must do between, say, 50 and 100 dishes per shift which is probably all I do on average in a year so it's no wonder they get the techniques off to a T while we end up striving to find the elusive 'secret'.

Regards
CoR

[Derek Dansak]

Jerry, you make some good points about most members not being involved in the journey. Just wanting the end result. How many members are there now?

[Cory Ander]

My reservation is that it will probably be less of a journey and more like another tedious trip around the same old block.....

I suggest you at least check these threads before you embark upon your journey:

http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=3951.0
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=2220.0
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=200.0
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=3634.0
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=4209.0
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=1283.0
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=4069.0
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=191.0
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=3183.0
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=1484.0
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=4011.0
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=939.0....

...I am sure there are plenty more.....

[JerryM]

My reservation is that it will probably be less of a journey and more like another tedious trip around the same old block.....

CA,

i with u 100% on this - the last we want is to end up as we normally do.

we would need to approach in a different manner - just present our individual thoughts and discuss them accepting that we "collectively" won't agree but at least the options are presented for members to use as they wish. u're ability to sumarise the findings is all we need and a bit of tolerance.

to avoid the usual round robin on how we should approach - i'm happy to set down my thoughts on a particular process which others can add and comment on for u to sumarise.

it's got to be work a go.

for me what we are looking to achieve is the envelope to each process that is derived from our collective experiences.