Quote from: Curry King on October 01, 2008, 09:49 AM
Has anyone managed to capture any of this so we can upload it somewhere for repeat viewings?

I have got some good stuff recorded, but I want to record him making a base. I watched it the first night (not recorded) and it was facinating - he is definately doing stuff we aint.

I'll upload somewhere once I get the relevant sequences together.

George, get hold of WM Recorder. there are a few *ahem* free versions flying around. This lets you save the video on the fly. Also download a program called 'asftools' - this allows you to make the asf files seekable to the interesting bits.

;-)

I seen him put in significant amounts of every spice in (except the first 2).

Also noticed he definately use reclaimed oil from their finished base to make every curry - watch him scoop out 1/2 chef spoon of the stuff each time.

This is brilliant.

Quote from: Bobby Bhuna on September 30, 2008, 09:11 PM
I have to admit that I am completely bamboolzed by this. I've just seen him get a giant pan of onions, take a plastic tub of something from under the sink, stick it in the flames of the cooker, then pour it in. He then came back with the tub filled with oil, put some in, and burnt some kind of a stick (looked like casia) and put it somewhere high up behind the spices and left it there.

Hi mate,

I saw it too Bobby. Here's my take

1. The 1st plastic tub was 1/4 full of hardened Ghee - he was heating the tub to melt and it up, then added to the base.
2. The cassia stick was one of those gas lighter devices - he used it to light the flame under the pan, then put it back on the shelf above :-)

#19 base was cooking for hours.

Here a few interesting obeservation I made

1. main activity started around 9:30pm on the 2nd base (he already had the onion & stuff boiling for hours)
2. He removed 4 ladels full of floating oil and kept aside
3. He blended the base with a massive 'hand' blender - 15mins blending
4. Added a few jugs of water to the base as he blended - taking it close to the top of the pot.
5. He added the oil back in and stirred, kept the heat going at all times
6. He made a tarka.... about a pint of oil in a wok, chef spoon of garlic, ginger, and spices 3->8 and 14.
7. Once fried for a couple of mins, added this straight to the base and stirred. left it boiling away for another hour before I gave up due to eye strain ;-)

could this be the secret ?

Quote from: chowie on September 29, 2008, 08:09 PM

11, Gee I thought
19, everything seems to be randomly added to this, almost like a bin, maybe it's the next of of base.
12, was the paste it seems a very dark color?

#19 - Interesting observation. I wonder if they chuck in stuff for the next days base prep.
#12 - Any idea - tomato paste ?
#11 - I'm not concinced this is Ghee. Let me check again.

Here's my stab at what we're looking at. Pls fill in the blanks or suggest alternatives.

1 Coconut powder             
2 Sugar                     
3 Ground corriander                          
4 Chilli powder             
5 Curry powder               
6 Cumin                     
7 Methi                          
8 Salt                       
9                           
10                    
11 Onions
12 Garlic
13 Ginger
14 looked like a Tub of Pataks Powder (turmeric?) - he used it to make the base
15
16
17
18 Watery Base ;-)
19 Whole Onions (tomorrow's base maybe)
20

There is also some ingredients behind him. Chicken, methi, green chillis.

facinating mate.... i'm glued.

George, that nan bread looks depressed down there. 10 out of 10 for the experiment though :-)

jasper, i wonder if true onion caramalisation (ie dark brown) is one of the secrets - like french onion soup. I always think there is a beef type taste from true BIRs.... maybe this is it.

I must try.