Excellent looking fare there MA!

Welcome to the forum Sir.

Welcome Rob, you can never cook too many curries for this forum.

Nice intro livo - yes your hunch was right and I would count myself as one of the members who took issue with CA towards the end of his reign and prior to his setting up of a new dictatorship, erm I mean forum.

There is a nice core of current members (new and long standing) who are regular contributors. I hope it continues.

Yum!

right up curryhell's street!

Quote from: noble ox on October 21, 2014, 09:05 AM
Keeping it simple is so important when learning to cook some complex meals
A Bir chef once advised me to learn to cook a basic chicken curry
When its good every time and only then start playing with spices and different recipes
Like the saying " learn to walk before you run"
Anyone in agreement ? ;D

See this old thread and my comments halfway down page 1

https://curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,8020.msg70997.html#msg70997

I've never cooked ten portions at once and I know on here there are some that say you don't get the right reduction of the base/sauce when you try to cook more than two portions at once. I both agree and disagree with this view. I agree in as much as I think trying to do this in a domestic sized pan or pot makes it really difficult and you might be just as quick to cook 5 x 2 portions, with better results. On the other hand I see no reason why you can't upscale the size of your pan, say a pan that sits over 3 or 4 burners? I'm thinking of something like a large paella pan I suppose?

There are also members of the forum who will say that the relationship between portion numbers is not a direct one, i.e. 1 portion of spice mix/chilli powder shouldn't be multiplied by 10, if that's the number of portions you are looking to do at once. There are threads where this was debated, without conclusion I think.

You could also go traditional and make a home style curry but I guess that's not what you're aiming for?

Welcome to the forum - all your BIR needs are contained somewhere on this forum - you'll get lots of help from members too but as a start you might want to read up on a base gravy, which usually has a spice mix and recipes to go with it for the sake of matching them all together.

Good luck!

welcome and be sure to say hello to your new friends

Kevin Korma
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