Topic: Product review : Patak's tinned (concentrated) Vindaloo sauce

[curryhell]

Thats like reviewing baked beans on toast after you have added
Worcestershire sauce.

And what's wrong with beans on toast with Worcestere sauce ;D

[Peripatetic Phil]

My complaints are about Patak's curry pastes that are now used in BIR restaurants.  Your little experiment is with concentrated curry sauces. Totally different.  Do your experiment with the pastes as used in the BIRs and then your experiment may have some validity.

Fine, understood.  The experiment /does/ have validity, but is clearly not relevant to a critique of their pastes.  But as I have written before, their Kashmiri Masala (paste) is excellent, and I would have no hesitation in using it (in moderation) in any BIR dish that it compliments.

** Phil.

[PaulP]

Fair comment Phil, the tins are probably heat and pressure sterilized unlike the jars which all seem to contain acetic acid. I can't find any reference to the tins on the Pataks UK web site.

Cheers,

Paul

[Peripatetic Phil]

Phil, I have a tin here in front of me and no where does it say add garlic, ginger or a base sauce.  Onions yes.  I would like to say these tins have gone way down hill over the last 5-7 years or so.  sorry.

Confused, Graeme : I didn't think I suggested that the tin said I should add garlic, ginger or a base sauce.  I wrote "I read the instructions in bed last night, decided not to follow them, [then] started by tasting the raw sauce [and] decided to basically treat it as a curry paste.".  What I did was to use the sauce as an ingredient, just as Impecunious from the Wyre suggested.

** Phil.

[Secret Santa]

I wrote "I read the instructions in bed last night

The mind boggles, it really does! 

[Graeme]

"Confused, Graeme : I didn't think I suggested that the tin said I should add garlic, ginger or a base sauce"

I also never suggest anything either...are you getting confused ?

"Very.  Matron told me I should have been in bed hours ago.  But when you wrote "I have a tin here in front of me and no where does it say add garlic, ginger or a base sauce. Onions yes.", what point /were/ you making ?"

So thats a simple yes to that one Phil !

[Peripatetic Phil]

I wrote "I read the instructions in bed last night"

The mind boggles, it really does! 

Well, what's a chap supposed to read in bed now that The Dandy is no longer being published in print ?  It's OK for you 21st-century nerds and geeks with your Kundles, I-nappies and what have you, but for we older generation that prefer to read something tangible, a can of curry sauce is a darn sight better than nothing ...

** Phil.

[Peripatetic Phil]

I also never suggest anything either...are you getting confused ?

Very.  Matron told me I should have been in bed hours ago.  But when you wrote "I have a tin here in front of me and no where does it say add garlic, ginger or a base sauce. Onions yes.", what point /were/ you making ?

** Phil.

[Graeme]

Thank you for you original post.

[Cory Ander]

Just to be clear, for other readers of this thread, any comments attributed to me, here, were made in another thread  (see "Death of the Taste" here:  http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=8748.0). 

My comments were specifically about Patak curry pastes And they were made in the context of the more prevalent use of Patak pastes probably being one reason (amongst many) why "modern" BIR curries apparently taste different from those of "yesteryear" (and, therefore, have probably contributed to the "death of the taste" of BIR curries).