Topic: aluminium pan

[PaulP]

I even use my curry pan to cook steaks. It looks a mess afterwards but cleans up really easily.

Paul

[chewytikka]

Not just an Ali pan - A 303 gauge Ali pan. My optimum pan is 24cm Omelette - wooden handled. 12 years old
and battered, replaced with an identical one last year and still running in.

Pots, Pans, Spoons, Chester Range, why this why that etc...etc...
Its all historic and simple evolution in BIR

You have to think CATERING KITCHEN and catering equipment.
Once you have that mindset, your on the first rung of the ladder.

IMO

[Salvador Dhali]

Not just an Ali pan - A 303 gauge Ali pan. My optimum pan is 24cm Omelette - wooden handled. 12 years old
and battered, replaced with an identical one last year and still running in.

Pots, Pans, Spoons, Chester Range, why this why that etc...etc...
Its all historic and simple evolution in BIR

You have to think CATERING KITCHEN and catering equipment.
Once you have that mindset, your on the first rung of the ladder.

IMO

Well said sir!

Not sure if anyone has tried the Sonex brand (made in Pakistan), but they're apparently popular in BIR kitchens.

http://sonexcookware.com.pk/product_image/1321617890.jpg

I've seen them priced at

[RubyDoo]

http://www.curry2go-store.com/curry-cooking-utensils.html

The ?17.99 version

 

I have the no 3 but invested in a no 4 to give a bit more space to do 'doubles'.

[uclown2002]

OK another newbie question!

My large heating ring on my electric hob is just under 20 cm diameter!  I don't know whether this is rather small or typical on an electric hob but obviously many pans and stockpots that I have been looking at are significantly wider.  Been reluctant to buy such equipment in case it doesn't get the job done.

Any thoughts on this issue?

Probably explains why my naans didn't turn out good.  Just couldn't get the tawa hot enough!

[Salvador Dhali]

I have the no 3 but invested in a no 4 to give a bit more space to do 'doubles'.

Yep - I'm a doubles man all the way. Even if I'm knocking one out just for myself, 26cm is my favourite size pan as it means I can make enough for two curries - one to eat straightaway, and one to put in the fridge to reach peak maturity overnight, and meaning that I only need to make some rice and a chapati or two the next day and I'm sorted. (Well, maybe a saag bhaji and a wee tarka dhal as well...  )

Right, back to the Kolhapuri Chicken, which I have to say is beginning to look and smell rather gorgeous!

[curryhell]

I have the no 3 but invested in a no 4 to give a bit more space to do 'doubles'.

Yep - I'm a doubles man all the way. Even if I'm knocking one out just for myself, 26cm is my favourite size pan as it means I can make enough for two curries - one to eat straightaway, and one to put in the fridge to reach peak maturity overnight, and meaning that I only need to make some rice and a chapati or two the next day and I'm sorted. (Well, maybe a saag bhaji and a wee tarka dhal as well...  )

Right, back to the Kolhapuri Chicken, which I have to say is beginning to look and smell rather gorgeous!

Like your thinking SD.  Hope we're going to get to see the porn a little later on 

[Salvador Dhali]

Like your thinking SD.  Hope we're going to get to see the porn a little later on 

Sorry to disappoint CH - I've been inexcusably useless in the photo department lately. Thing is, it didn't look significantly different to my standard chillified Madras/Vindaloo/Phal - i.e. chicken in a vibrantly RED sauce. The saag looked the same as it always does too, as did the dhal (pictures of both on other threads).

On the taste fron, however, the Kolhapuri Chicken was delightful, with so many layers of flavour that I lost count. It's dead easy, too, and satisfyingly hot thanks to the quantities of deggi mirch employed.

But like all the more trad dishes I cook, no matter how well they turn out they never quite satisfy my craving for a good old BIR Madras/Vindaloo/Phal.

Don't get me wrong - I'm fanatical about the more traditional styles of Indian cookery, and absolutely love it. But I can't help it. I'm a hopeless BIR junkie!

[RubyDoo]

Well the no 4 arrived from somewhere in Bradford today. Sod's law it turned up just after I had finished using the 3 to do CTM for 4 (by request not my choice). Never mind, pan is id to thebSonex 3 in everyway but size. Looking forward to putting it to test. Much cheaper as well than the smaller one i got from Julian and VERY quick delivery.

[curryhell]

Well i'm just about to give my new ali pan its second out and see how it fares with the South Indian Garlic Chicken    Then have to make the Viceroy Brasseries "naga" sauce and pre-cooked saag.  A feast when i get back from the pub tonight  : ;D