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Title: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: Paul-B on May 21, 2012, 02:24 PM
I have tried his Jalfreyzi recipe and very good it is, too. Great if you don't have time to go through some of the recipes here but need something relatively quick and quite delicious.

http://www.rajput.co.uk/video.php (http://www.rajput.co.uk/video.php)

Cheers!
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: natterjak on May 23, 2012, 08:38 PM
Hi Paul!

Seems a bit rough on you that no one replied to you yet.... Perhaps they all thought the same as me - "blimey, 14 videos - I'll come back to that when I have more time!"

Well tonight I came back to it and watched a few, but not all 14. It's a good set of videos for sure and as per their strapline is more "new Indian cuisine" than BIR. My experiences of modern Indian cuisine, aka "posh Indian" aka tiny cordon bleu style portions, has not been good based on one local restaurant, but I won't judge this place in Harrogate on that.

Interesting to see him using a nonstick pan (with metal spoon!) after all we've heard about the importance of naked aluminium pans. His presenting style seems a bit over the top to me, like he's auditioning for a role as a tv chef, but preferable I suppose to someone mumbling away inaudibly.

All in all a good set of videos and well worth posting, so thanks for that  :D
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: PaulP on May 23, 2012, 09:41 PM
Hi Paul, I appreciate you sending the link but a few odd things about the jalfrezi video:

1 As already noted the use of non-stick pans with a metal spoon. This will eventually mean the non-stick coating ends up in the food. As far as I know non-stick is not used in professional kitchens. Bare aluminium is far more common.

2 The use of Chinese wok burners which forces you to use a wok rather than ali or iron pan.

3 How long it would have taken him to cook this meal for anybody waiting in the restaurant.

4 A teaspoon of salt is about 6 grams - seems excessive to me.

It just doesn't look right to me.

Cheers,

Paul

Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: curryhell on May 23, 2012, 10:19 PM
Have seen a couple of this guy's vid ages ago.  Not quite BIR as we know it on here.  As already said, "new wave" and possibly more up market, or maybe that's the impression that is being given.  Haven't tried any of the recipes as there's plenty on here i'll be trying first.  Thanks for posting the link though.
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: natterjak on May 23, 2012, 11:07 PM
Ps. Paul, I noticed it's your first post in something like 18 months! Why so quiet?  ;D
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: George on May 23, 2012, 11:49 PM
His presenting style seems a bit over the top to me..

Too true. I found him so irritating as to be virtually unwatchable
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: Secret Santa on May 24, 2012, 12:59 AM
The evil B&^%$?*! must have got out early then!

http://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/news/harrogate-knaresborough-nidderdale/jailed-3yrs-for-rajput-brothers-1-2672053 (http://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/news/harrogate-knaresborough-nidderdale/jailed-3yrs-for-rajput-brothers-1-2672053)
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: Whandsy on May 24, 2012, 07:51 AM
Thought this guy looked familiar,

Gulf expat posted a link to some of these videos in march 2010

http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=4465.0 (http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=4465.0)

It is a bit cheesy to watch :o

W
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: chewytikka on May 24, 2012, 11:00 AM
I remember these.
This guys video's, were of a budding curry chef trying to be a celebrity TV chef and not somebody doing instructional how to videos.
The Teflon pan will be ruined very quickly, using a chef's spoon and the furnace output of that Chinese cooking range, olive oil isn't the
best on high heat either, but it's trendy to show your using it in a video.

I don't know, but his restaurant was probably closed down when he and his family went to prison
and makes you wonder what he's doing now, but needless to say they all got what they deserved.
cheers Chewy
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: Les on May 24, 2012, 12:12 PM
I don't know, but his restaurant was probably closed down when he and his family went to prison
and makes you wonder what he's doing now, but needless to say they all got what they deserved.
cheers Chewy

Here, Here, Chewy,
And I don't think we should be promoting the "Brothers Grimm" on cr0.
But just my opinion

Les
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: chef888 on May 30, 2012, 08:54 AM
i,m a very nosey git what did they get sent to prison for ?
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: Tommy Timebomb on May 30, 2012, 09:29 AM
Cheff888,
This link is from Secret Santas post...
http://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/news/harrogate-knaresborough-nidderdale/jailed-3yrs-for-rajput-brothers-1-2672053 (http://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/news/harrogate-knaresborough-nidderdale/jailed-3yrs-for-rajput-brothers-1-2672053)

I also remember seeing these vids a few years back. I'm not knowledgable re kitchen things and cooking and thats why I enjoy reading up on tips etc on here but I do recall just wanting to reach through my screen and throttle this guy. >:(
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: chef888 on June 26, 2012, 04:01 PM
thanks tt you just dont know what can go on behind the scenes makes the mind boggel got all they deserved and probably 2 or 3 more yrs on top would of been more just ( ivam )
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: Tommy Timebomb on June 26, 2012, 05:18 PM
Tell me about it.
A few years back I was waiting for my order in the local Chinese when I tried to make conversation with the pretty young girl who took the orders etc.
Her English wasn't too good and all I was trying to say was that seeing the shop had been in the same families hands for years it was strange that all of a sudden the staff just seemed passing through and was she family etc?

She was just smiling at me repeating "I love Leather" and she seemed oblivious of what she was saying?

The devil in my mind was saying "life don't get much better than this" but I collected my chow mien and left. :(
I till this day tell my mates that I'm convinced the T/A was involved with a bit of people trafficking? :-\
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on June 26, 2012, 05:25 PM
She was just smiling at me repeating "I love Leather" and she seemed oblivious of what she was saying?

I'll bounce "I love leather" off the Cantonese and Mandarin-speaking members of my family; it's just possible that she was speaking Chinese, not English (unlikely, but can't be completely discounted).

* Phil.
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: natterjak on June 26, 2012, 05:35 PM
Tell me about it.
A few tears back I was waiting for my order in the local Chinese when I tried to make conversation with the pretty young girl who took the orders etc.
Her English wasn't too good and all I was trying to say was that seeing the shop had been in the same families hands for years it was strange that all of a sudden the staff just seemed passing through and was she family etc?

She was just smiling at me repeating "I love Leather" and she seemed oblivious of what she was saying?

The devil in my mind was saying "life don't get much better than this" but I collected my chow mien and left. :(
I till this day tell my mates that I'm convinced the T/A was involved with a bit of people trafficking? :-\

Well not wishing to destroy you fantasy but surely she was just trying to make conversation about how nice the weather ("leather" in Chinese accent) was?!
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on June 26, 2012, 05:57 PM
Well not wishing to destroy you fantasy but surely she was just trying to make conversation about how nice the weather ("leather" in Chinese accent) was?!

Unconvinced.  Both Cantonese and Mandarin have very clear initial "l" [1] and "w" [2], so it's hard to imagine a native Chinese speaker pronouncing "weather" as "leather".  "r"/"l" confusion is very common, but "w"/"l" I have not encountered. Which is not to say that it does not exist !

** Phil.
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[1] Cantonese "lok4", Mandarin "le" (particle, no English equivalent)
[2] Cantonese "wok6" ("wok", as in Chinese cooking vessel), Mandarin "wo3" ("I". "me", occasionally "my")
Title: Re: 14 videos from the award-winning Rajput restaurant
Post by: Secret Santa on June 27, 2012, 01:58 AM
Perhaps she just liked leather. Ain't a crime is it?  ;)