Hi gary

I was looking through this thread and the other posts about the rajver base because this is going to be the next one I try. As I read I was just getting more and more hungry so off I went to make one (freestyle) with the last of my Smokenspices base. I got to the adding spices stage and thought I caught a whiff of the toffee smell you mentioned. I then turned away from the cooker to do something quickly at the sink and there it was, a very definite, unmistakable toffee smell.

I must admit, when you talked about a toffee smell I thought you were just trying to describe something that was close to the smell you were getting, but no, it's 100% toffee. Blimey I thought (or words to that effect).

The strange thing is I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary compared to the way I usually make curries but I can honestly say I have never got the toffee smell before. Perhaps it's because normally I'm standing over the pan, maybe you have to get a bit of distance so that the subtlety of the odour manages to make itself known.

The curry turned out OK but nothing special.

I wonder how much time people will allow both Andy and his claims to remain unsubstatiated before just a shadow of doubt begins to enter their minds.

There's this song, if you don't know it it'll mean nothing to you, but if you do it pretty much tells the story of RCR and its dumb followers. It goes something like this...

Isn't it grand! Isn't it fine! Look at the cut, the style, the line!
RCR is all together
But all together, it's all together
The most remarkable travesty that I have ever seen.

These eyes of mine at once determined
The bhaji's mingin, the balti's vermin
The garlic's blue and the members are a lovely shade of green.
Somebody send for the Beer.

I'm feeling a litle bit queer!

Ever had one of those days when you wished you'd just kept your mouth shut!? 

Now the question is where can i purchase one of those aluminium pans?

That really is a good question. I've looked in all the asian shops I've been to and not one has them. Is this the "secret"?

Hey ronnoc, don't be put off by all the questioning, it's a neccessary evil I'm afraid. From my own point of view I would prefer, once you are happy with the quantities, that you give the original chef's recipe with its original quantities. That way I can scale it to suit me.

Thanks for the effort you're putting in.