Topic: who believes future breakthroughs lie with recipe refinement ?? or new bases ?

[solarsplace]

Neutral base works perfectly. I'm sold, do we now discuss spice mix for the project or is that part of the experimentation?

Hi All

Anyone had any thoughts on how to progress this?

Regards

[chriswg]

Someone needs to take charge of this or nothing will get done. I like the idea but I'm already looking after group tests. Does anyone want to volunteer?

Farnborough Hants by the way.

[solarsplace]

Someone needs to take charge of this or nothing will get done. I like the idea but I'm already looking after group tests. Does anyone want to volunteer?

Farnborough Hants by the way.

Hi All

Well, I have a lot on my plate ATM (doesn't everyone?) however I am happy to take a very active role with this project. I don't want to be any kind of leader on this (I am just not qualified / experienced for the job) but am happy to collate info / polls and keep balls rolling etc.

Cheers
Regards all.

[Peripatetic Phil]

Stout fellow : well volunteered, SP !
** Phil.

[Derek Dansak]

I have not forgotten about this project. in fact quite the opposite !.  I am working on a possible contender for a base. The spice mix should be left undefined, and we will work on that as a group over the year.  That will be the hard part, and the interesting part.
     I think initially we have to find a base which everyone will be happy to make more than once. i.e. a base which may not be everyones personal choice, but which is good enough for us all to make regularily. without a base we are all likely to work with ALOT, the project wont succeed.
     I am happy to direct the project when it gets hopelessly stuck. but i feel it will work best in the long term if no one person assumes control. instead a group of genuinely committed members, manage it together. If all goes to plan it should gather its own momentum. The main problems will be finding a suitable base, and then collectively evaluating individual members "break throughs" to see if they are a step forward or a step back. I am unclear how this would work. would other members be committed enough to evaluate others work? I will begin a new thread in the group test section and start a skeleton base recipe we can all discuss.

[solarsplace]

Hi DD & All

Did not want to dirty your new thread with chit-chat as was not sure that was its purpose?

Anyway, any thoughts on how we choose or create a suitable spice mix to start with?

cheers all

[Derek Dansak]

good question, i expect we will all want to stick to our own tried and tested spice mixes to start with. but in time we might modify them a bit. then we can bounce ideas off each other. if we agree on a base 1st, this will simplify things. I have never been totally happy with copying the spice mix from my local. although it does work well.  Once we agree on a base that works for the group, we can try different spice mixes from different members. might be a good learning experience.

[Peripatetic Phil]

Should we move this to Derek's new thread ?

I think there is a third variable (well, really there are many) : the method of pre-cooking the chicken (assuming that we use chicken because of the reduced time needed c/w other meats).  Having just used the Ashoka method, it is clear to me that my own Madras recipe is in part predicated on using the KD1 pre-cook approach, and that it does not seem to work as well when using the Ashoka.

** Phil.

[Les]

As a new fella just starting to making my own bir/ta currys, I would be interested to see which base you guy's come up with,Only  done one so far, which i was quite pleased with, Using the Bradford base that Admin posted ie:- the Karachi Cafe in Bradford (Rick Stein),
So the best of luck people, Could be a prob with everyone having different taste buds though

A cracking site, well done to all who run her.

[Derek Dansak]

yes lets move to that thread for all the discussions . of which there will be many