Topic: LIDL curry bargains

[Secret Santa]

Now what your saying is use the ingredients also from bir?...
You can change the ingredients but then its no longer a supermarket curry is it. Simples

I don't think you read it right string28.

Domi said

but of course the flavour would change if you used the same ingredients, scaled down to make a single portion of whichever dish and made it fresh a la BIR stylie

See...SAME ingredients...just made BIR style. Exactly what I was saying.

I genuinely don't know whether you're trying to wind us up or that you just don't realise that there's a difference between BIR cooking and the cooking methods used in mass production?   

[string28]

Thank you Domi i knew we would get there in the end
So in other words we really dont need the supermarket we can do it ourselfs better.
I think the penny just dropped  :
Now lets hope a few more people start cooking the curries at home and we get to find out how to do BIR style curries.  ;D

but supermarket curries list turmeric, coriander, garam masala etc the same as BIR curries, string...which cost pence a packet....and having checked out some of the prices, ?1.49 is a gross underestimation...BIRs also use cheap ingredients, string if you think they use all the most expensive ingredients you're kidding yourself.

If you were to make a supermarket frozen pizza fresh at home using the same ingredients, I'd be willing to bet that a freshly made pizza base would taste different even if made with the same ingredients, the tomato sauce would taste different freshly made and used immediately....would it taste better home-made? I'd bet that it would....cheap ingredients or no... :

[string28]

I did make the comment about me finding this amusing  Secret Santa  ;D

Now what your saying is use the ingredients also from bir?...
You can change the ingredients but then its no longer a supermarket curry is it. Simples

I don't think you read it right string28.

Domi said

but of course the flavour would change if you used the same ingredients, scaled down to make a single portion of whichever dish and made it fresh a la BIR stylie

See...SAME ingredients...just made BIR style. Exactly what I was saying.

I genuinely don't know whether you're trying to wind us up or that you just don't realise that there's a difference between BIR cooking and the cooking methods used in mass production?   

[Domi]

Thank you Domi i knew we would get there in the end
So in other words we really dont need the supermarket we can do it ourselfs better.
I think the penny just dropped  :
Now lets hope a few more people start cooking the curries at home and we get to find out how to do BIR style curries.  ;D

but supermarket curries list turmeric, coriander, garam masala etc the same as BIR curries, string...which cost pence a packet....and having checked out some of the prices, ?1.49 is a gross underestimation...BIRs also use cheap ingredients, string if you think they use all the most expensive ingredients you're kidding yourself.

If you were to make a supermarket frozen pizza fresh at home using the same ingredients, I'd be willing to bet that a freshly made pizza base would taste different even if made with the same ingredients, the tomato sauce would taste different freshly made and used immediately....would it taste better home-made? I'd bet that it would....cheap ingredients or no... :

Yes, but it doesn't alter the fact that people still use supermarket products and are able to discuss the merits/demerits all the same lol I can make homemade ketchup but I'll still prefer to use Heinz

[string28]

Yes domi but you said it we can cook it better ourselfs so i think that says a lot about supermarket curries.
Thanks anyway for making the point im off to a new challenge now.

Thank you Domi i knew we would get there in the end
So in other words we really dont need the supermarket we can do it ourselfs better.
I think the penny just dropped  :
Now lets hope a few more people start cooking the curries at home and we get to find out how to do BIR style curries.  ;D

but supermarket curries list turmeric, coriander, garam masala etc the same as BIR curries, string...which cost pence a packet....and having checked out some of the prices, ?1.49 is a gross underestimation...BIRs also use cheap ingredients, string if you think they use all the most expensive ingredients you're kidding yourself.

If you were to make a supermarket frozen pizza fresh at home using the same ingredients, I'd be willing to bet that a freshly made pizza base would taste different even if made with the same ingredients, the tomato sauce would taste different freshly made and used immediately....would it taste better home-made? I'd bet that it would....cheap ingredients or no... :

Yes, but it doesn't alter the fact that people still use supermarket products and are able to discuss the merits/demerits all the same lol I can make homemade ketchup but I'll still prefer to use Heinz

[Secret Santa]

I can make homemade ketchup but I'll still prefer to use Heinz

Yup, there are some things you just can't improve upon!

[Secret Santa]

I did make the comment about me finding this amusing  Secret Santa  ;D

Ah good, a bit of levity never hurt anyone! 

[matt3333]

Hi George
You must be having one hell of a laugh at the controversy this simple post has caused- I find it fantastic well done.
Let's face it who wants to knock a home made curry after a few, maybe alot of  beers if there is a quick and acceptale alternative to whack in the microwave, we all know the recipes on the site produce excellent fresh curries-
Mind you having seen some of the photos posted I think I'd prefer to buy at LIDL ;D

[string28]

Well i for one would say people who post the curries pics are people who make the forum.
You know why matt3333?
Because they took the time and effort to make the curries and post them.
To show other people on here so they can learn.
So i for one would like to thank everyone who posted pics, Videos, Recpies because without them we wouldnt be anywhere near making BIR
So matt3333 can i ask why did you join the forum?

Hi George
You must be having one hell of a laugh at the controversy this simple post has caused- I find it fantastic well done.
Let's face it who wants to knock a home made curry after a few, maybe alot of  beers if there is a quick and acceptale alternative to whack in the microwave, we all know the recipes on the site produce excellent fresh curries-
Mind you having seen some of the photos posted I think I'd prefer to buy at LIDL ;D

[michaelpratt]

God this is getting circular!

Earlier I added a comment that many supermarket curries actually ARE BIRs. As I said the Mumtaz restaurant supplies Morrisons and ASDA I am sure.

And the mass production argument is a bit fallacious: if you are looking for a homemade version of a takeaway, the hardest thing is scaling down to a few portions a process designed to throw out a couple of hundred covers a night - and therein lies the issue.

Personally I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that if I want a restaurant style curry, I go to a restaurant. If I want to cook it myself I get homestyle curry. Not an issue really. And if I can't get to the takeaway I have a freezer full of BIR curries thanks to ASDA.

Incidentally I have a Goan Goddaughter. Having been there to visit many times not one single dish I have been served by my family out there has the slightest resemblance to anything you get in a BIR. It is still, however, delicious. (And usually too hot)

Mike