Topic: BIR v home curry

[noble ox]

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that when preparing a curry at home, from base sauce, to finished meal , our tastebuds and sense of smell system has been saturated or numbed a little.
When I go to a curryhouse and the meal arrives I am drooling and getting every sense working, I have prepared currys for friends and they can describe that exact curryhouse feeling and when I go to theres
Is this the mysterious "curry secret " our senses not being overloaded. Its the same when I eat a curry next day it tastes better and smells better
Any thoughts on this theory

[Razor]

Hi Ox,

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that when preparing a curry at home, from base sauce, to finished meal , our tastebuds and sense of smell system has been saturated or numbed a little.

Is this the mysterious "curry secret " our senses not being overloaded. Its the same when I eat a curry next day it tastes better and smells better
Any thoughts on this theory

I'd be willing to bet my house on it mate.

I have just cooked myself a Madras, exactly the same Madras that I cooked on Saturday afternoon for my curry night.  The one I did on Saturday was very very good, whereas the one I've just done now is only 'very' good

Joking aside, yes, I believe senses overload play a big part in our taste perception.  The Madras I've just cooked now, gave me a good blast of 'chilli hit' up my nose, and it's still tingling now.

The one I made on Saturday was a quick 2 minutes in the 'ding' and served.  No time to get a chilli hit. I finished cooking all my curries at about 16:30, (5 double portions in all) then settled down to United.  I guess we didn't really start to eat until about 20:30, so plenty of time for the senses to recover.

Ray

[curryhell]

Hi Noble Ox and welcome to CR0.   As you work your way through the many threads on the forum you will find many references to how desensitised your senses become during the time spent in the kitchen cooking  .  The only confirmation of what a job you've done is when lucky diners, who walk into that lovely smell you've been immersed in for hours, eat your food and say that's as good as the Raj or wherever.  You just sit there wishing somebody else had done all the hard work so you could get the full benefit of the aroma and tastes.  I agree curry always seems to taste better the next day or does it?  Or is it just that our senses have started to return to normal and appreciate the smell and the taste.  Maybe this is 2% of the 5% many of us are missing

[curryhell]

The one I made on Saturday was a quick 2 minutes in the 'ding' and served.  No time to get a chilli hit. I finished cooking all my curries at about 16:30, (5 double portions in all) then settled down to United. 
Ray

I am surprised you didn't get put off your food Ray .

Just finished doing another batch of Abduls base which i needed for use in my slow cooker with the "sheep".  Looking forward to sampling the end result around 10 when its done .  Not sure to what extent my senses have been numbed doing that though.
Just had a mouthful of last night's North Indian Special since I could only eat half of it and that tasted pretty good.  I'll have the rest for lunch tomorrow.
Just to make sure my senses are clear i'm off down the pub for a couple of hours to get out of the "curryhouse" and will be returning to "ding" bambles Meat Dupiaza for supper.  It tasted damn good yesterday afternoon when i cooked it.  Hopefully the flavour will knock my socks of later as i won't be under the influence of the smells ;D

[Razor]

I am surprised you didn't get put off your food Ray .

It very nearly did mate, but thankfully, they (Swansea) missed a sitter.  One of the lads that came round is a blue nose massive (City fan) so, as a treat, I made him some special onion bhajis (with double quantities of asafoteda) After about 30 mins, he went and stood in the garden, fartin that loud, that I could hear him from my living room ;D

I just wished that my senses hadn't recovered by then

Ray

[curryhell]

I am surprised you didn't get put off your food Ray .

It very nearly did mate, but thankfully, they (Swansea) missed a sitter.  One of the lads that came round is a blue nose massive (City fan) so, as a treat, I made him some special onion bhajis (with double quantities of asafoteda) After about 30 mins, he went and stood in the garden, fartin that loud, that I could hear him from my living room ;D

I just wished that my senses hadn't recovered by then

Ray

They say spices are full of medicinal properties ;D.  Obviously hing is the cure for trapped wind ;D ;D