Hello all, just joined this forum as part of my quest to make great BIR curries. Lots of great advice here - been busy reading as much as I can in the day or so since I joined.

I started this quest maybe 20 years ago but never really took it much further with the normal problems of time and other constraints... The Bible for me was Kris Dhillon's "The Curry Secret" and whilst the results were reasonable, there was also the realisation that there were other secrets that the book didn't mention!

The result was we gravitated away from trying and started having more and more takeaways delivered from the many takeaways dotted about the town. Some were good, very good, others were either poor or very poor. I'm sure this is a common story.

Fast Forward to 2015 - yet another bland offering from our local that in the past had been quite good and getting fed-up I suggested to my wife (who is a serious curry-head), I should renew the curry cooking and start again. She eagerly agreed!

Found Julian's "Curry Secrets" book and tried one or two of his video recipes that were amazing enough to make me purchase the e-books. It was a good buy, loads of stuff in those - particularly techniques and we have been enjoying plenty of curries from that. The e-book led me to Dave Loyden's "Undercover Curry" which has loads of great stuff in it. (His Pilau Rice method just works perfectly IMHO). Somehow I found this forum and I am seeing the same sort of techniques, secret busting and enthusiasm that I got through those books!

In case anyone wonders, my username is because we use Induction cooking almost entirely and I think I'm probably in a minority. I am interested in the opinions of others who use Induction cooking. For me it is a superb method, heat wise and power wise and only surpassed by big gas burners. Downsides, yes, aluminium doesn't work but a thin steel wok will do absolute wonders with easier cleaning up after . Very pleased to advise others about Induction too., if this subject hasn't been covered.

Sorry for the long post! I only meant to say hello!