Looks quite an oily mess, to be honest. I'll give it a miss 

Quote from: mickyp on September 25, 2020, 01:50 PM
The facebook clubs are a totally different structure, very high post volume, and no real organisation

As opposed to here, where there is very low post volume and no real organisation - although the owner did introduce the recipe section; but it has been largely shunned.

Quote from: romain on September 21, 2020, 04:49 AM
This is one of quite a few FaceBook curry groups. There's Curry Club, The Secret Curry Club, The Curry Club (Home Cooking) and others. They are popular. The biggest one has somewhere around 50K members. They are all quite active. There are some that have been here and on the other forum participating. It's a mix of accomplished cooks, beginners and everything in between.

The biggest differences, I think, are the volume of traffic (much higher), and the diversity of participants.  There's a lot enthusiasm and the desire to cook and share. There's also a lot of uninformed opinion. There are trolls. There are spats. But they tend to get drowned out by the volume. The concept of a flame war doesn't really exist.

It's hopelessly disorganized. It doesn't have the carefully managed library of recipes that one would find here. The search function works pretty well though. I suspect Facebook licenses technology from Google.

I think of it as a huge party with many, many conversations going on at once. I have met some truly excellent cooks and all around nice people in these groups. It is, like anything, going to give back in proportion to what you put into it.

I'm a little old school and do prefer forums for their structure but there are some really good on-topic FB groups out there.

Maybe it's time that CRO ventured into the Facebook world. Could be fun and attract more curry fans with whom we can share thoughts etc. Something to look into Mr Owner?

Quote from: Peripatetic Phil on September 20, 2020, 09:19 AM
I still remember the look of incredulity on my director's face when I asked "what is Facebook ?" some 20+ years ago.

I'm not surprised that he had a look of incredulity, since Facebook wasn't around 20+ years ago......

Thanks Robbo. They are way out of my league too. Will just use them (sparingly) to make chilli sauce.

Last year I tasted a little bit of a Ghost pepper and then drank a pint of milk, so not even going to attempt the raw reaper, though I did pluck a small ripe one and cut it open and licked the inside. That was enough for me

Nice plump habaneros - hope they ripen up

Getting to the end of the season here in Scotland.

Happy to say my Reapers are starting to ripen

Cutworms?

I had fungus gnats last year after I brought a couple of plants from the greenhouse indoors. By that time the plants were mature, so no damage was done. I don't believe the gnats cause problems (apart from being very annoying) but the larvae seem to.

I cut down the watering of these plants to a minimum and watered from the bottom only - that seemed to reduce the reproduction a little.

Thanks for that, mate. Might give that a try 

Welcome Gaspodia. Great to have you with us.

I would welcome any homely recipes with Punjabi origins.