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I don't think anyone needs more than a few minutes of experience and technique if a recipe is well-written enough and reveals enough of what you need to know.....I suggest the issue is a knowledge gap in terms of ingrdedients and/or.....methods......If you have all the knowledge, I don't believe much practice will be required at all.
(in Abu Dhabi) a few of us (curry cooks) both Asian, Arab,and Western decided to write the ultimate curry cook book based mainly on techniques/methods not just recipes, as we all recognised this was the key. If you recall we found straight away that recipes we put together with the techniques.methods were often better done by others than we made ourselves, especially the Asian women who were not trained 'professional' cooks. Each time we did an analysis to see why this should be so we got a shrug and an 'I dont know I just did it' for an answer.
... There never was any secret ingredient and I used watch her cook on a regular basis. In fact she never really used many spices. She tried fo 5 years to tech me how to make cahapatis like she did, and failed. I tried to cook her curries and did not quite make it, even when she was standing with me!