Topic: Bombay Aloo Group Test

[chriswg]

OP updated again. Please everyone who wants to do the test feel free to crack on and email or IM me their results. Don't discuss your findings on here until everyone has completed them in the interest of fairness.

Good luck all. We should have lots of sets of results to combine!

[Malc.]

Chris, can you confirm which base we are to use? I don't have any left in my freezer so I am open to this, but some may prefer to use what they have. I know Phil said he had the Madras2011 base left over.

[solarsplace]

Chris, can you confirm which base we are to use? I don't have any left in my freezer so I am open to this, but some may prefer to use what they have. I know Phil said he had the Madras2011 base left over.

Hi

Yes, this would be good to confirm. I too, was planning on using the Taz (Madras 2011) base.

CHeers

[Cory Ander]

How can you do a reliable comparative test if you don't use the specific curry bases (or spice mixes, etc) specified in the recipes?

[solarsplace]

How can you do a reliable comparative test if you don't use the specific curry bases (or spice mixes, etc) specified in the recipes?

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Exactly, that is what I am asking to get confirmed.

Cheers

[Cory Ander]

Exactly, that is what I am asking to get confirmed.

Then your answer is to use whatever curry base is specified in the recipes? 

Your earlier post stated:  "I....was planning on using the Taz (Madras 2011) base"

[Cory Ander]

OP updated again

What's "OP" please?

And which recipes are to be "tested"?

[solarsplace]

OP updated again

What's "OP" please?

And which recipes are to be "tested"?

Hi

It is the original post.

Cheers

[solarsplace]

Hi All

It appears (I may have missed one, so will be worth others double checking) that no recipe apart from Dip's & Balti Book specifies a particular base & spice mix.

Would be happy to standardise on Taz throughout if others are in agreement. Fair test or not, personally I am not going to make a batch of Dips & Balti books own base & mix just to do 1 off Bombay Potatoes.

What are thoughts on this issue?

Are we happy to standardise on Taz mix where a mix powder is called for?

Cheers

[Cory Ander]

It appears (I may have missed one, so will be worth others double checking) that no recipe apart from Dip's & Balti Book specifies a particular base & spice mix

So where's the list?  Have I missed it?

Nevertheless, that's two out of five (?) that specify a specific curry base and spice mix.  How can you profess to do those recipes justice if you don't make them exactly as specified?

Fair test or not, personally I am not going to make a batch of Dips & Balti books own base & mix just to do 1 off Bombay Potatoes

In which case, therein lies the problem (meaninglessness/inequity) of these "Group Tests"?