Cooking a curry - how difficult is it?

It's well worth investing in a mortar and pestle and grinding your own spices - you will get much better flavour.
Ready ground spices will start to lose their flavour and taste stale after a while...
 
MTA99 said:
I don't know if you're trying to come across as arrogant and intolerant on purpose but having read the whole thread you're cetainly doing a good job.

I appreciate that there are vast numbers of the british public who would turn their nose up at an "authentic" curry in favour of something "mass produced" but more fool them - if chefs can earn good money churning out quick to make "british" curry then who's the idiot? Certainly not the chefs! I'm white and I'm english but having grown up with Indian friends, I have tasted much of the "authentic" cuisine (cooked at home and for special occations) and appreciate the often delicate and complex flavours. However to suggest that no one should attempt to cook a curry at home without the proper equipment is bordering on delusional! Would you suggest that no one play football in the park unless they possess the skills of Christiano Ronaldo? I enjoy making a curry....at least trying to make one....but that doesn't mean that I can't appreciate or understand "authentic" cooking. Why are you being so precious about it?

Finally, as other have suggested perhaps the reason your customers complain when you try to change the food is because that's what they expect from your establishment. If you're confident your "authentic" cooking is better, change the menu, sod those who complain, they'll find somewhere else to go and you'll get customers who understand the "authenticity" of your food.............or does it make more sense financially to feed the ignorant masses and that frustrates you? ;)
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as 1 of the other posters mentioned it takes his mum the whole day to make 1 dish - thats why im saying its unreasonable to do at home - put it this way we used to cook curries every other day at our home - since buying the restaurant we only do it once in a blue moon and normally get the chefs there to cook us our food and bring it home - it saves a lot of time and hassle - who has a spare 5-8 hours to waste on making food everyday

i would lose a lot of money if i changed the menu - i prefer making money over making good food at a loss

im trying to educate people that the food shouldnt be cooked that way - so when they finally wake up and realise that - i could then change my menu

as i have said before the market fpr proper curries isnt that big and everyone prefers "fast food style" nowadays

do you prefer to go to your local bakery or greggs?

the masses prefer greggs only a handful prefer the local bakery

the same goes for mc donalds and real burgers - people just seem to wanna eat junk

its simple economics - im not gonna lose money if people want crap ill serve it to them - but i would prefer it if people changed their outlook and then let us serve proper food
 
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If you are prepared to put a bit of time into it, then you can easily make something at home that will taste much nicer than your average takeaway chicken tikka though.

You are obviously going to have to take shortcuts, but that doesn't mean the end result won't be tasty.
 
tripitaka said:
If you are prepared to put a bit of time into it, then you can easily make something at home that will taste much nicer than your average takeaway chicken tikka though.

You are obviously going to have to take shortcuts, but that doesn't mean the end result won't be tasty.
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yeah it just depends on what your looking for - taking shortcuts is allowed, especcially when it comes to making a desi tor-ka, food processor technique is used by nearly everyone today - but i prefer my tikka to be made inside a tandoor oven - which i doubt any normal home in the UK has - so obviously you need to use shortcuts
 
Psycho Sonny said:
as 1 of the other posters mentioned it takes his mum the whole day to make 1 dish - thats why im saying its unreasonable to do at home - put it this way we used to cook curries every other day at our home - since buying the restaurant we only do it once in a blue moon and normally get the chefs there to cook us our food and bring it home - it saves a lot of time and hassle - who has a spare 5-8 hours to waste on making food everyday

i would lose a lot of money if i changed the menu - i prefer making money over making good food at a loss

im trying to educate people that the food shouldnt be cooked that way - so when they finally wake up and realise that - i could then change my menu

as i have said before the market fpr proper curries isnt that big and everyone prefers "fast food style" nowadays

do you prefer to go to your local bakery or greggs?

the masses prefer greggs only a handful prefer the local bakery

the same goes for mc donalds and real burgers - people just seem to wanna eat junk

its simple economics - im not gonna lose money if people want crap ill serve it to them - but i would prefer it if people changed their outlook and then let us serve proper food
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Did my post go completely over your head or did you not bother reading it? :confused:
 
Psycho Sonny said:
do you prefer to go to your local bakery or greggs?

the masses prefer greggs only a handful prefer the local bakery

the same goes for mc donalds and real burgers - people just seem to wanna eat junk
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Im not getting involved in the main arguement but thats not very true. For bakers and greggs, 90% of places don't have the option, and most proper bakers dont do the snacks that greggs do. More or less the only common thing they have in common is a bread loaf, and greggs dont stock or sell as many of them compared to everything else.

For Mc.Donalds, this again is due to lack of other option imo.

- Pea0n
 
I think peoples definitions of "real" curry is a bit odd. Surely its food thats been adapted and changed to cater for different tastes. I don't see why this curry is then "fake", just different. Like you say different parts of india cook watery curries, does that make them fake? Or is it just how the food has adapted there. I dare say that the first ever curry was nothing like anybody here has ever tasted, because the concept of a curry has mutated and evolved over the years.

Although i'd agree it'd be nice to actually taste a none mass produced curry, anything that takes a day to cook can't be that bad.
 
What's the name of your family's restaurant Psycho? Can't see why you would be ashamed to name it unless it was utter tosh, regardless of whether you use 'food colouring' or not.

Btw Fish & Chips > Indian Restaurants.
 
gurdas said:
What's the name of your family's restaurant Psycho? Can't see why you would be ashamed to name it unless it was utter tosh, regardless of whether you use 'food colouring' or not.

Btw Fish & Chips > Indian Restaurants.
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I kinda have to agree, an awesome fish & chips rivals anything the world of food has to offer. Although, you cant eat fish & chips everyday. Whereas with curry you can, and i do :D
 
icey_haj said:
I kinda have to agree, an awesome fish & chips rivals anything the world of food has to offer. Although, you cant eat fish & chips everyday. Whereas with curry you can, and i do :D
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Fish & Chips is awesome, and unlike Psycho, our family restaurant serves some of the best food you will ever taste, visit Kristian's in North Shields and you won't be disappointed:D
 
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