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A user from Grays, Essex, expressed interest in hiring an Indian chef for home cooking lessons, seeking to learn authentic recipes and techniques. After initial communication with the chef, the user felt optimistic about the potential lessons, but later updates revealed that the chef stopped responding to emails, leading to disappointment and uncertainty about the arrangement. The community showed support and shared similar experiences, but ultimately, the outcome of the cooking lessons remains unresolved.

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Offline jb

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Indian cook in your home
« on: June 07, 2010, 11:16 AM »
Just browsing through my local paper (I live in Grays in Essex by the way) and I found a very interesting advert..........

"Learn to cook in the comfort of your own kitchen.Authentic indian restaurant or traditional Bangladeshi style.Call Abdul on 07545 478 502.Or visit...

http://learn2cook.vpweb.co.uk/

What to do you guys think??? Very tempted to get him round!!!
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Offline chriswg

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Re: Indian cook in your home
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2010, 12:59 PM »
That looks very interesting. I'd be tempted to get him round too if I lived in Essex. You would have to explain to him that you already know the basics so what you are looking for is an advanced lesson. I assume most of his customers wouldn't know what a base is.

Let us know if you decide to go through with it.
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Re: Indian cook in your home
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2010, 05:26 PM »
This is the message I have sent.....

Hello,I found your advert in this week's edition of the Yellow Advertiser.I live in Grays in Essex and am really interested in some Indian Restaurant cookery lessons.

Can you tell me what sort of recipes/techniques you are willing to show me???  I have tried many times to reproduce the sort of basic take-away/restaurant meals I enjoy but there is always something missing and my local take-away chef is unable or unwilling to me.

I know that restaurants use a basic base sauce that goes into almost every dish and I have a few recipes for this but I would love to get a real chef to show me exactly how it is done.Also how to make the basic curry house recipes,i.e madras,tikka massala,bombay aloo etc.

many thanks!!!!!!!!!
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Offline George

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Re: Indian cook in your home
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2010, 06:40 PM »
Quote from: jb on June 07, 2010, 05:26 PM
This is the message I have sent.....

Your message looks good and I hope he responds. This must be worth taking advantage of, not least because he might wind the business up as quickly as it started, if general take up is low from his point of view.
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Offline Mikka1

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Re: Indian cook in your home
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2010, 06:58 PM »
I'm in the wrong country!  :-\
I'd do it. Sounds like a good deal and you can learn just so long as he tells you exactly what is going into what?
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Offline gazman1976

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Re: Indian cook in your home
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2010, 10:33 PM »
the ashoka in glasgow does curry lessons for ?25 per head , its in the kitchen,  i would make sure he is doing it all from scratch before booking and seeing every ingredient he uses and the makes , sounds good
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Offline joshallen2k

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Re: Indian cook in your home
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2010, 01:13 AM »
Very curious if this is the business. Nice one jb.

Anyone else Essex way thinking of trying it out?
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Re: Indian cook in your home
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2010, 11:33 AM »
Perhaps if you get a response the forum can fund the money for the lesson though some donations?

Stew
ps - as long as you take photos and report back  ;D
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Offline jb

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Re: Indian cook in your home
« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2010, 12:46 PM »
Hi everyone just an email back...

hi jason, thank you very much for your e-mail, could you kindly forward your contact number please so i can call and take 15 minutes of your time to respond to your questions. look forward to hearing from you
thank you

abdul

amohed

Off to work now but I will try and get in touch with him later on today.I guess he's been thrown a bit by me mentioning the fact that I know about base sauce....I'm just thinking about the questions he may ask,and also questions I am going to ask him(base sauce,spiced oil,high heat when cooking etc).I don't think I will mention the forum,I'm not sure whether it might perhaps scare him off.

ps Don't worry if it does happen(I really hope it does!!)there will be plenty of pictures and recipes!!


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Re: Indian cook in your home
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2010, 01:05 PM »
Hi jb ;)

I reckon if he's got any business sense he's not going to tell you much at all on over-the-phone questioning, he's wanting to get your brass before he coughs up I reckon ;D but you'll get to know what he's offering exactly :)

Good luck and fingers crossed! :)
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