The Spice Tailor ‘meal kits’ are awesome
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Scantily said:
I’ve found the spice tailor kits fairly bland and unimpressive, these are far superior - https://tastesmiths.com/
Was just going to post the same, but they are more expensive and you have to add other ingredients 
Scantily said:
I’ve found the spice tailor kits fairly bland and unimpressive, these are far superior - https://tastesmiths.com/
Same same but different, isn’t it. If I’m going to have to chop my ingredients and cook for half an hour then I’m going to skip tastesmiths and make my own. I’m basing that on Sally and Steph cooking the madras. “Here are the onions we cooked earlier on to speed things up (20 minutes for the rogan josh video), now cook the tomatoes, now cook the chicken for 20 minutes” indeed. I’m a busy man! 
scrubchub said:
I'm going to try that method. Rice is my cooking kryptonite. Just never been able to do it consistently without it turning to slop.
Just buy a rice cooker - they're not that expensive. Wash rice, put in rice cooker with water up to the line and a bit of salt, turn rice cooker on, wait.It really couldn't be simpler - the rice comes out perfect every time.
I have a Zojirushi rice cooker which is good, but the rice can be a bit sticky sometimes.
I recently bought a Sistema Microwave Rice Cooker, followed the instructions but just can't get the rice to come out nice. I need to experiment with quantities and timings.
I recently bought a Sistema Microwave Rice Cooker, followed the instructions but just can't get the rice to come out nice. I need to experiment with quantities and timings.
Edited by LeadFarmer on Friday 23 October 21:04
LeadFarmer said:
I have a Zojirushi rice cooker which is good, but the rice can be a bit sticky sometimes.
I recently bought a Sistema Microwave Rice Cooker, followed the instructions but just can't get the rice to come out nice. I need to experiment with quantities and timings.
Is that one where it just says do X minutes on full power (which is how most the microwave ones work) or is it multi stage, like mine? For mine (which also gives instructions for single simple blast but recommends the following) it isI recently bought a Sistema Microwave Rice Cooker, followed the instructions but just can't get the rice to come out nice. I need to experiment with quantities and timings.
Edited by LeadFarmer on Friday 23 October 21:04
10 minutes low
X minutes high (depending on microwave power and numbers of cups of rice)
5 minutes low.
Note it could also be the amount of water you use for the rice type. Mine comes with separate rise and water cups with the water measure having two sets of markings, one for long grain rice, the other (which is more water) for short grain. For Japanese non-sushi rice I find mine is best splitting the difference (so if 2 cups, 1 long grain water measure, 1 short)
Current favourite spice kit is Rafi's spicebox, we get them from Booths where they have a concession and have had very good results, they also sell online
https://www.spicebox.co.uk/
https://www.spicebox.co.uk/
Riley Blue said:
Spice Tailor kits three for a pound in Poundland, Chesterfield today. Limited selection, limited to three per customer. Clearing their shelves for more Christmas tat according to O/H.
Which branch was that? Retail park on Marham Rd or the one in the Pavements shopping centre?Matt Cup said:
Tesco currently have these on offer for the same price as Sainsbury’s had them for. I’ve stocked up on a few different kits whilst they are cheap.
My local Tesco had quite a good range of Spice Tailor kits, all at £1.45 so I grabbed about eight of them. Should do me for a while.RobbieTheTruth said:
dapprman said:
I'm another fan of The Spice Tailor, partly based on previous threads here, and have the Southern Pepper one lined up for tonight or tomorrow.
I've tried the Holy Cow ones a few times, but personally I've not found them to be that good, certainly not a patch on TST.
On the Charlie Bigham curries. Not a fan. Tried three of four of them - the Green Curry I actually liked, but did not think it was close to restaurant style, but the others I've found to be more 'western' taste and disappointing, especially for the cost.
Personal tastes of course.
Off the back of this thread, I've become a bit obsessed looking at these kits. I've tried the Holy Cow ones a few times, but personally I've not found them to be that good, certainly not a patch on TST.
On the Charlie Bigham curries. Not a fan. Tried three of four of them - the Green Curry I actually liked, but did not think it was close to restaurant style, but the others I've found to be more 'western' taste and disappointing, especially for the cost.
Personal tastes of course.
I've picked up the Hungry Elephant Curry House Korma kit - anyone tried that one? Reviews are good.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/302...
My opinion is still the same. Nice enough at home, you'd be horrified to get it from an Indian Takeaway.
It's about the standard of a Wetherspoons korma.
For anyone cooking these - it makes a big improvement if you brine the chicken for a few hours first.
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