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Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: Ader1 on January 11, 2014, 02:52 PM
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At this restaurant where I've been helping out a little, they use this smalling frying pans to cook most of their curry dishes. They look like they're made of aluminium but my knowledge of metals isn't good. I did ask the owner and he says he got them in London....which is quite far away. I live in S Wales. Anybody got some of these? How much are they and where can you get them from? Maybe even an internet based supplier? Is there a special name for them? Thanks.
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Probably aluminium pans, plenty of links on the site. Used in kitchens for their heat distribution, and are light, so avoiding RSI injuries.
Never tried one myself as they don't work on induction cookers :(
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How would a cheap aluminium pan improve a curry? I use Circulon (had them for many years) and they do every other cuisine I try to replicate really well. I just can't see how the pan can make any difference to a curry at all. I am pretty sure it wouldn't make any difference to my bacon butty tomorrow morning. My first few curries have been ok from the recipes on this website, probably more my technique and lack of skills than anything else. I will persevere though.
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I share your scepticism, Sir Paul, and normally cook in ILAG
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The speed in which aluminum pans heat up and cool down is a bonus when frying spices and caramelising the first ladle of base, so you could say that they can help achieve better flavours in a curry, but you need that skill set honed regardless of what pan you use.
I myself use a thin carbon steel wok for all my curry cooking.
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I always have to cook for three or four, and I don't think one of those pans would be big enough.
I'll stick to my anodised wok ????
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How would a cheap aluminium pan improve a curry?
It might not improve a curry as such but it probably improves anyone's chance of repliacting BIR style curries, which is what this forum is mostly about. There are plenty of videos showing BIR chefs cooking curries. They use simple aluminium pans. By using a similar pan I can try to match their heat level and the times used for cooking. It's one less variable to worry about.
Is your user name your real name?
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BIR curryhouses most use aluminium frying pans (not non-stick) but carbon steel is also popular. I have seen many using these
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The one I'm working at uses the aluminium to cook curries but also uses a seasoned wok, a farily samll one, to cook the dishes which include rice such as egg fried rice, mushroom rice and special rice etc. I still haven't been succesful in locating an online seller.
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I suppose Geezah could have a point, the quick heating up and cooling of the pan could make a difference.
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I still haven't been succesful in locating an online seller.
You don't really need an online seller. All you need is a nearby branch of any major supermarket such as Asda. A 24cm pan from a supermarket comes with a protective coating inside. You just need to spend 5 minutes with some sandpaper, rubbing it off, back to bare aluminium. That's what I did. Nothing could be simpler. It works a treat.
I'm still wondering if PMc is using his real name, or if it's some kind of wind up.
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I'm still wondering if PMc is using his real name, or if it's some kind of wind up.
George, George, why are you getting hung up on this ? 99.99% of all members here don't use their real names (you, I and Michael.T apart) and I don't remember you ever challenging Cory Ander as to whether that was his real name !
** Phil.
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I'm still wondering if PMc is using his real name, or if it's some kind of wind up.
George, George, why are you getting hung up on this ? 99.99% of all members here don't use their real names (you, I and Michael.T apart) and I don't remember you ever challenging Cory Ander as to whether that was his real name !
You correctly highlighted it first when you called him 'Sir'! It just seems plain weird to me why anyone would steal a VIPs name, unless he's younger than about 60, and it really is his real name in which case I blame the parents. If I was unlucky enough to be cursed with a name like that, I'd be sure to pick a spice name or something similar on here. If you'd been named 'James Bond' or even Biscuit as a first name, wouldn't you consider changing your name?
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Do you really think that "Sir" would join this forum and use his real name!, I don't think so.
and with about 400 million in the bank,( the last I heard) he can buy his own Indian Chef :)
So let's not be stupid here ;D
Les
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This is making me laugh ;D ;D
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I recently found I needed a third pan for cooking so took a visit to the local Asian store and bought a nice new aluminium pan for ?11.99 and a tawa for ?7.99.
cheap as chips
oh and sir paul could you please give up, you've lost your voice
dyl
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Can you change your name once an account has been created? Biscuit Mcartney mmm, John, Ringo and especially George it seems would like that.
What are all your real names?
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Biscuit
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Maybe it is the real Paul, after all, he has a history of writing about curry.
Rememeber 'It's bhuna hard day's night......'?
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Can you change your name once an account has been created?
What are all your real names?
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Yes you can, And as below :) belated welcome to the forum Paul.
Les
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I've been lurking for a while too, but now have plucked up the courage to post
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I recently found I needed a third pan for cooking so took a visit to the local Asian store and bought a nice new aluminium pan for ?11.99 and a tawa for ?7.99. cheap as chips
Cheap, perhaps, for anyone with about
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I've been lurking for a while too, but now have plucked up the courage to post
Lurking? What, with over 300 posts?
Changing member names, and then back again, I expect, should not be allowed IMHO.
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Changing member names, and then back again, I expect, should not be allowed IMHO.
Pourquoi pas, mon vieux ?!
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Why not indeed Phil. ;D
Les
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Next you know, We will have ER-II Fid Def ::) Or maybe Charles Darwin, who knows ;D
Les
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Merde, alors -- ze leetle Eenglish 'as seen zrough my deesguise :( I shall 'ave to adopt yet anozer persona eef I am to remain incognito 'ere ...
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You could try "Marie Antoinette" :) That should fool a few.
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How about this? As I mentioned, rice dishes are made in a small wok which have been seasoned. The seasoning prevents the rice from sticking to it and are cleaned carefully without washing in water. The aluminium pans are used for curries and are then placed in the sink and soaked before using a wire brush and chemical to clean off the residue of the cooked curry.....often solidly caked in some areas. You coulnd't do that to a seasoned wok. It would require to be seasoned again. And if it isn't seasoned, then the rice etc will stick to it.