Hello from North East Scotland tricky

this is a great site liquid, welcome aboard the good ship curry!!

QuoteAll I can say is I think my curries taste damn good, and I do not regard them as sub standard.

QuoteThat's because, I surmise, you haven't tasted and smelled the old style curries. Believe me when I say even you would admit your own curries are sub standard when going head to head with those.

That's the problem with your generalisations, they are based on assumptions and lack of knowledge about what people have and haven't experienced.  You are also expressing opinions as if they are fact, they are not, they are just your opinions. I don't know what age you are or what your experience of curries is, but you seem to want to surmise what mines is - and you have got it wrong as I have been eating curries for over 30 years and therefore by your definition I must have smelled and tasted the old style curries. I don;t have to admit anything. In fact I think the old style curries is yet another generalisation and locally we have several curry houses producing excellent food but that's only my opinion, one in which, no doubt, you will try to dismiss with another generalisation or opinion disguised as fact.

I don't think you are in any position to tell me that I have missed the boat

ASDA's fresh cooked stuff (as per parker's post) isn't bad. Meat content is typically low but sauces are OK and, as you say, handy when you can't be bothered standing over the cooker.

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I can't say what "most other members" on this site are trying to reproduce (though others on here clearly think they can). I won't even try to speak for others until I have tasted their cooking, which is different from trying their recipes. Other people can speak for their own standards.

I am not setting myself up as an expert or saying that saying my curries are any better or worse than anyone else here. All I can say is I think my curries taste damn good, and I do not regard them as sub standard.

Take the Ashoka thread for example. This was quite a busy item and a few of us (including me) tried the base, bunjara etc. It tasted superb and certainly not sub-standard. Even though I agree that many takeaways produce a fairly uninspiring product that doesn't mean most members are aiming for the same. I think we need to try and avoid huge generalisations here.

Let's face it if you are going to try and produce a gourmet burger you wouldn't take McDonalds as your benchmark. As long as I can produce damn good tasting curries I will be a happy curry eater and I am always on the look out for new recipes and techniques here. One of the good things about this site is that there is enthusiasm and ideas aplenty, which I regard as far from sub-standard.

Quote from: Secret Santa on April 01, 2009, 09:06 PM

Quote from: Stephen Lindsay on April 01, 2009, 06:47 PM
..."yeah not bad but I can  do just as good myself".

Do others feel the same, my guess is yes, and that, in itself shows how good this site is.

An alternative interpretation, which I believe to be closer to the truth, is that todays BIRs are well and truly sub standard.

This suggests that my curries are also no more than sub-standard? (and, by implication, many of the others' on this site. But I'm sure that's not what you meant Santa!!!

welcome to the land of curry connoisseurs windybum

I reckon there must be dozens of members of this forum who can do the business. My standard response to a lot of take out or it in curries is, "yeah not bad but I can  do just as good myself".

Do others feel the same, my guess is yes, and that, in itself shows how good this site is.