Quote from: Yousef on May 13, 2021, 10:40 PM

Current Avg. Sessions 30k per month

9% from members
91% from new users

Are these figures from people or robots simply visiting the home page of curry-recipes.co.uk, or visiting the forum?  I suggest the forum is close to a backwater these days but, for regular users, it must be the only thing we are interested in. Until a few years ago, the site was the forum - much better. Who on earth is interested in a selection of recipes on the home page, let alone a request to submit new recipes? It may even have a different log-in. How does that make sense? If anyone here wants to upload a recipe, they post it to the relevant section of the forum. 

Quote from: Garp on May 08, 2021, 04:06 PM
Also - if George had any power over this forum, we wouldn't need the 'last post', but the funeral march.

In a way you are correct. Due to insult after insult from you, over the years, yes you wouldn't last long if I was in control. Nobody else would have anything to worry about.

I trust the three of us posting to this thread already may be prepared to take shares in the purchase of the forum if it is made available to us. Please correct me if I am wrong! Would anyone else be interested? Yousef - are you interested in selling the forum?

Quote from: livo on May 08, 2021, 08:48 AM

A forum is up to the members and at the moment this place isn't really worth a look in and getting less so by the day.  Just sayin'.

I agree. I think the best option would be for the forum to be sold to a consortium of the members who may then stand a better chance of keeping it alive, and probably know what is best. Owners with IT skills but no real interest in replicating BIR food, or meeting in person with members, are not in the forum's best interest, in my opinion.

Quote from: jmansion on March 01, 2021, 10:36 AM
Not at all.  My meal last night was https://monfoodblog.com/2014/04/15/butter-chicken-risotto/ and it was pretty good.

I can believe it was good, although I question whether adding wine was a good idea. What you really made was a type of biriani, of course. Several UK supermarkets sell chilled food labelled as Chicken Tikka biriani. The sauce and rice are separate and you mix them together to form quite a tasty dish. That's also quite similar.

Quote from: Secret Santa on December 18, 2020, 11:53 PM
I tried the vindaloo recently as well. I enjoyed it and preferred it to the bhuna but there's just no comparison to a BIR curry. All jarred curries are much of a muchness to me and these Aldi ones are no exception. I know the standard of BIR has fallen dramatically in the past couple of decades but if you're equating these Aldi curries to BIR then I dread to think what your local BIRs are serving up now.

I have never eaten a vindaloo in a BIR or anywhere else, so I can't comment on that. I disagree with you that the Aldi bhuna sauce is no better than any other bottled sauce from a supermarket. The reason I started this thread is that it stands out as being exceptional. As for a comparison with a BIR bhuna, I've never eaten a bhuna at a BIR either (from the menu, fast cooked) so I can't make a comparison to that, either. But I stand by my earlier comment that the Aldi bhuna sauce when cooked with lamb is around 70% as tasty as a slow-cooked BIR buffet bhuna. Lastly, I disagree that the standard of BIR food has fallen. Rather, I think it is better now that it's ever been, at least in my region. So I conclude that you and I simply have very different tastes. Neither of us are right or wrong, it's simply that we presumably perceive taste in a very different way.

Quote from: Peripatetic Phil on December 16, 2020, 05:13 PM

I tried another jar of Aldi's Bhuna sauce again with lamb a couple of weeks ago and, once more, it produced a really tasty meal - exceptional for a sauce coming out of a jar.  Each time, I don't add all the sauce in one go but strech out the simmering time to 45 mins, adding about 1 heaped tbls sauce every few minutes.

Next, I tried lamb with Aldi's Jalfrezi sauce in exactly the same way, but it was nowhere near as tasty as the Bhuna sauce.

Quote from: Onions on December 09, 2020, 07:09 PM
To clarify (for everyone), I don't have the tool to split threads, or move individual posts. All I can do is delete or modify them. So if you swear, I will modify the post (presumably), and if it becomes non-productive hot air, I will delete it (as you have seen), but I can't do anything in between. I mean,  I'm currently the moderator of this thread-and there's nothing I can do with it at all, except kill/morph selected posts  SMF provide for a multi-layered forum administura. I for one welcome any new overlords!

I'm sure you will do your best but, as I have said before, moderation of this forum is a thankless task.

The whole concept of 'off topic replies' is daft in my opinion. It may as well be called 'Anything which the moderator doesn't like'. As it was me who suggested that the heating related posts be separated-out, the least you could have done was to open a new thread called something like 'room heating' in Talk about anything. I could start a new thread myself and paraphrase previous comments but we've now lost the momentum, unless anyone else would like to support me in getting rid of the concept of 'off topic replies'.