Topic: Just watched my curry being cooked!!!

[Secret Santa]

Another thing, most of these flames that you see in the restaurants are wrapping over the sides of the pan...

Ah but that's the real puzzler isn't it Ray? Why, as you rightly observe, do they have the flame lapping up the side of the pan? Is it just ignorance as you suggest or does it serve a purpose?

The obvious effect would be to rapidly cook any sauce that is on the side of the pan, and of course we all have seen how regularly they scrape down the side of the pan back into the bulk of the sauce. Is it likely then that it's a deliberate effect, designed to caramelise some of the sauce and incorporate that into the overall flavour?

[parker21]

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cheers
gary

[jb]

Once he had finished cooking my madras he put it to one side on another ring,he did stir it again maybee twice If I  remember correctly.He did not taste any of it though.I'm quite convinced now I've seen a madras cooked up close that the 'taste' has got to be in the base.I watched him very closely throughout and there were very few other ingredients that went into it.The madras sauce was very spicy with a strong tomato flavour(as was the oil that had separated within the sauce).The base sauce also went into the bombay potato and this too had the same distinctive flavour

[Razor]

SS,

You may well be correct with regards to the scraping.  I've got both a wok, and a BIR pan, and you do have to scrape the sides of the BIR pan quite a lot to prevent burning but, I can honestly say that I don't get any real discernible difference in flavour with either my pan or wok.

All I know is, if I leave my pan to cook away for as long as I've witnessed in BIR's/TA's, undisturbed, things start to go wrong.  I mean, you watch these guy's, they are really quite relaxed about the cooking process.  I'm sure that they are very skilled, but still, there is a very casual approach applied on their behalf.

Ray

[solarsplace]

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hope this helps
cheers
gary

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cheers

Russell