Thanks Frank for keeping me lazy and providing a nice summary of these gadgets. I feel better educated now, but I feel also that it comes down to: get a tandoori for the right results.

976bar,

Any spiced oil recipes?

That brings me to a completely different question. When I see all these videos, the chefs use the same spoon for all ingredients, cooking and even use the spoon after stirring liquid straight into dried spices!!
Is this hygenic? Does the wet spoon not leave lumpy spices in the holder? Even from the base sause to the G/G paste. Surely this contaminates all spices and ingredients to a degree?
Just my pennies worth as a NOOB. Look forward to your replies. Martin.

It's interesting as I had exactly these same questions when I joined this forum (well, shortly after starting to watch a few videos around here). I didn't get a good response from my recollection, but these days I don't think it's a huge deal, particularly as the spices being used have a very short turnaround. At the end of the day, curry is a mix powder, so if you dip the spoon in the turmeric and then in the curry, chances are the contamination is negligible and that the foreign spices would mix in the box and not be noticeable due to the amounts (this particular case, turmeric is one of the spices in most curry powders) Also, bear in mind some chefs are more careful than others.

Quote from: goncalo on October 09, 2013, 02:00 PM

Thank you DP. Oh well... I guess I need to spend the money on the real thing.  If only the weather was more reliable, I wouldn't hesitate to purchase it.

Ah Jayzus, and aren't you living in God's own isle ?  Sure and the weather is as reliable as a man could want -- "a fine soft day", every day

** Phil.

I don't know anything about god's own isle, but we sure get the 4 seasons in a day and it's common saying "If you don't like the weather, wait 15 mins and it will change"

I like your touch of Dublin slang "jayzus" ;-)

Ok, so I just called spices of india the shipping cost for this to Ireland is of 7.50