Topic: How many members are "Cooking on Gas"

[JerryM]

cooking at heat - the best tip i found was to take the pan off the heat when needed to give more thinking time until it becomes 2nd nature

[Graeme]

ceramic hob and its okay.

[parker21]

hi guys we have a leccy knob but i only use it if and its a big IF my ikcle  gas camping stove with butane cannisters that throws out more heat than the leccy knobs does anyway at 2.2kW. so gas all the way and at 4 gas cannisters for a fiver and 1 1/2 hours on full power longer if you simmer LOL! i cook a curry 5 out of 7 nights am never disappointed!
regards
gary

[curryhell]

hi guys we have a leccy knob but i only use it if and its a big IF my ikcle  gas camping stove with butane cannisters that throws out more heat than the leccy knobs does anyway at 2.2kW. so gas all the way and at 4 gas cannisters for a fiver and 1 1/2 hours on full power longer if you simmer LOL! i cook a curry 5 out of 7 nights am never disappointed!
regards
gary

You just reminded me that i have one of these portable stoves that i have never used .  Now would seem like the perfect time to brush off the dust and give it singeing session.  Where do you get your gas cannisters from Parker 21?  That seems a good price   Is theat 1 1/2 hours full power per cannister?

[beachbum]

hi guys we have a leccy knob but i only use it if and its a big IF my ikcle  gas camping stove with butane cannisters that throws out more heat than the leccy knobs does anyway at 2.2kW. so gas all the way and at 4 gas cannisters for a fiver and 1 1/2 hours on full power longer if you simmer LOL! i cook a curry 5 out of 7 nights am never disappointed!
regards
gary

You just reminded me that i have one of these portable stove that i have never used .  Now would seem like the perfect time to brush off the dust and give it singeing session.  Where do you get your gas cannisters from Parker 21?  That seems a good price

Great tip guys, I've been watching the YouTube videos of guys cooking with those little wok style pans and stirring and shaking, and you just can't do that with electric. I've got real old school solid metal hobs that are excellent for simmering, but it takes so long for them to heat up and cool down that I can't apply bursts of heat as required. The camping stoves are dead cheap and I can always get the canisters from the Asian shops or even from Aldi who get them in often.

[Derek Dansak]

i have been cooking on gas for 4 years, but was also a lecky guy before this     The extra heat of gas is useful and improves flavour slightly. But i can still produce a  similar tasting curry on electric , i am not convinced that high heat makes a huge amount of difference.
      The high heat of gas does improve your cooking style, and that improves the final taste.
I  actaully think my best curries are long slow cook curries done in a more traditional way in the oven with lid covering the pot for 5 hours. This really produces the wow factor for me.
      Bir curries are a quick way to do a good curry, but i think some cr0 members are missing out by just doing bir curry all the time. 
       

[beachbum]

Good point, Dez - I'm a home craft-brewer and when it's my turn to host a brew day and I know that 15 club guys are going to turn up for the day I need something pre-prepared for lunch, and nearly always bung on a Pork Vindaloo or something similar.

I do everything BIR style, except for the pork which I cube, dredge in flour and fry till sealed, then tip everything (base sauce, masala, passata, vinegar, whole can of coconut cream (naughty) etc etc etc) into a big electric slow cooker the night before, and get up at 5am to turn it off, then re warm it for lunch and serve with masses of rice and a few packets of supermarket shrink wrapped garlic rotis etc. and a raita, the sounds at lunch are reminiscent of a porn movie 

However for my own day to day, I like to do the fast and furious.  ;D

[sp]

Electric (halogen) hob here, used to cook on gas.  I can't say that have I noticed a difference in the quality of food I cook or the method; I quite like the halogen hob, it's very responsive although obviously not as adjustable as gas.

[beachbum]

I was watching a You Tube the other day, traditional Indian lady doing a chicken biryani, and she was using a portable induction cooktop  - I never realised they existed.

Seemed to be doing a fine job.

Chicken Biryani Recipe in Hindi (with Annotations in English) [HD]

[parker21]

"Where do you get your gas cannisters from Parker 21?  That seems a good price   Is theat 1 1/2 hours full power per cannister?"
i buy them from my local market in ashford, kent. open tuesdays, fridays and saturdays! but most hardware shops sell them per cannister at 2.95gbp  emergency only! lol.

regards
gary