Topic: Most recipes don't work

[PaulP]

Apologies to you emin-j. What I posted came out sounding wrong. I would include yourself, Razor and Solarsplace on my "trusted list" which as I said is not really a list but a feel you get after a while on a forum. I'm happy to concede that I screwed up your recipe somehow.

I can't say more than sorry.

Paul

[George]

Apologies to you emin-j. What I posted came out sounding wrong. I would include yourself, Razor and Solarsplace on my "trusted list" which as I said is not really a list but a feel you get after a while on a forum. I'm happy to concede that I screwed up your recipe somehow.

The introduction of the word "trust" is interesting and quite true.

For a start, I don't trust recipes which are posted here without a grain of background, relevance, opinion or anything. Where's the sense in that? It's just quantity over quality. It's a shame if any of these offending recipes are actually any good. You'd think anyone posting could and should say so. Why else should we try these recipes? I think it's better that someone should admit a recipe was made and tipped straight in the bin, rather than just being polite, or keeping quiet.

[Peripatetic Phil]

I don't trust recipes which are posted here without a grain of background, relevance, opinion or anything.

I don't think anyone is inviting you to "trust" a recipe they post, George, unless they accompany it with a statement such as "I have cooked this for friends on many occasions, and they have invariably said it is the best example of <whatever> they have ever tasted.".  What they are usually inviting you to do is to try the recipe for yourself, and then to contribute constructive criticism.  I wonder if you have considered it in that light ?

** Phil.

[Les]

Being quite New here. Does that mean I can't trust any of you, and not try any of the recipes, ;D Until I make some Pen Friends :

HS

[George]

I don't think anyone is inviting you to "trust" a recipe they post, George, unless they accompany it with a statement such as "I have cooked this for friends on many occasions, and they have invariably said it is the best example of <whatever> they have ever tasted.".  What they are usually inviting you to do is to try the recipe for yourself, and then to contribute constructive criticism.  I wonder if you have considered it in that light ?

Yes, you're right - that's pretty much my thinking, i.e. either (a) they give some honest statement like your example above, or like Blade did for his chicken tikka, or (b) the OP of a recipe moves into the distrusted category. There aren't enough hours in a day to try more than a small fraction of all the recipes available here, in books and elsewhere on the Internet. One has to prioritise. Why should I invest a fair amount of time and money in a recipe which comes with no statement as to how good it is? Even a self-declaration is better than nothing, even if it's not quite as good as being subjected to group tests. So yes, I have considered it in that light and I'm not prepared to try the recipes of anyone in the distrusted category.

[Stephen Lindsay]

I think the problem with this thread starts with the title - most recipes don't work. There's just no evidence for that.

[Ramirez]

I'm really not understanding this whole trust/distrust categorisation of people and recipes. Maybe I see things in a slightly simpler way, but if someone posts a recipe for a dish I might like  then I might try it. If a recipe receives positive feedback then I am more likely to try it. I pay very little attention to any preamble to a recipe or whether the author is someone I think I 'trust'.

In terms of the OP, I think to implement some sort of vetting process would do more harm to the forum than good.

[Graeme]

I don't rate Delia at all since seeing her mixing
stuff by hand with all them rings on her fingers 
Horrid 

[solarsplace]

I'm really not understanding this whole trust/distrust categorisation of people and recipes. Maybe I see things in a slightly simpler way, but if someone posts a recipe for a dish I might like  then I might try it. If a recipe receives positive feedback then I am more likely to try it. I pay very little attention to any preamble to a recipe or whether the author is someone I think I 'trust'.

In terms of the OP, I think to implement some sort of vetting process would do more harm to the forum than good.

Yes, agreed with your thoughts and points.

Also, at the end of the day this is, at the moment a free forum, where all of us - essentially - curry fans share a considerable amount of information and experience for free for the good of all.

Some recipes might be disappointing and the poster could be slightly delusional, but how can you enforce any kind of vetting on a free forum?

Just look at the recent issues that we all faced doing the informal group tests! - how could an official ranking system be measured here?

Cheers

[Peripatetic Phil]

I don't rate Delia at all since seeing her mixing stuff by hand with all them rings on her fingers 
Horrid 

I tried to decide if this would bother me, and wasn't sure. Then I went to the kitchen to bone a chicken, and found myself doing so while wearing a watch with a webbing strap.  So I guess on balance it wouldn't really bother me unless I knew she'd been mucking out her horse just before coming into the studio ... !

** Phil.