Accidental curry

[AFK]

The only really true curry they had was some curry leaves.  They had red curry, green curry, and yellow curry, also curry paste.  But yeah, Alton Brown gave the little shpeel up front about how curry is really a blend of spices, etc., and varies from place to place. 

[Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.)]

You obviously have never been maced.

[LMNO]

You obviously have never been maced.

Citation:

Protip:  If you "accidentally" put the cayenne in with the seeds on the stove, you will essentially be creating free-flowing mace throughout your kitchen.

Might be useful on those mornings the kids won't get out of bed

[Richter]

The only really true curry they had was some curry leaves.  They had red curry, green curry, and yellow curry, also curry paste.  But yeah, Alton Brown gave the little shpeel up front about how curry is really a blend of spices, etc., and varies from place to place. 

I'd think that would be a little open ended for an Iron Chef.  If I ever have cable TV again I'll try to catch that.

Also, discussion with 000 a while back concluded that chili is a curry.... 

[AFK]

Also, I get Bon Appetit magazine.  I got a free subscription from Amazon that came with some thing I bought for my wife.  Anyhoo, in there they had a piece about all of these Cooking video games that have come out. 

Apparently, there is an Iron Chef America game for the Wii.  Interesting. 

[Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.)]

You obviously have never been maced.

Citation:

Protip:  If you "accidentally" put the cayenne in with the seeds on the stove, you will essentially be creating free-flowing mace throughout your kitchen.

Might be useful on those mornings the kids won't get out of bed

Danke!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I used to be the tea and spice blendmaster for Kobos, and I still make a mean fucking curry.

[Triple Zero]

Also, discussion with 000 a while back concluded that chili is a curry.... 

we did?

heh

[Richter]

Yeah, I think it was the one about your bean recipies. 

The impression my brain left with was any dish of meat / veggies cooked with the spices and other trace ingredients in such a way that it produces a sauce, but doesn't become soup or stew, IS CURRY.

Ingredients, spicing, method and presentation may varry regionaly, but you're doing the same thing to it.

This actually describes 90% of the cooking  do for myself.  The technique is the same, the only difference what kind of sauce it gets and what I serve it over.

[Triple Zero]

... but ... i consider curry a kind of stew

in which case, what do you consider to be the important difference between curry and stew?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

... but ... i consider curry a kind of stew

in which case, what do you consider to be the important difference between curry and stew?

I always associate "stew" with "stewing" stuff... cooking it in liquid at low temperatures for long period of time. By contrast, curry ingredients are rarely "stewed"... they're quickly cooked and served in sauce.

[Richter]

Stew I imagine as having more of a broth than a sauce.  Lighter flavor + more watery.

I have to conceed that it's a fine line though...

... but ... i consider curry a kind of stew

in which case, what do you consider to be the important difference between curry and stew?

I always associate "stew" with "stewing" stuff... cooking it in liquid at low temperatures for long period of time. By contrast, curry ingredients are rarely "stewed"... they're quickly cooked and served in sauce.

YES. This also!

[Triple Zero]

afaik a good curry is boiling at a low temp for the better part of a day?

and i make my stews usually pretty saucy as well, so maybe that's it.

[LMNO]

I would say that a curry would be a sub-set of a stew.

The distinctive differences being the ingredients, of which chili peppers, cumin, coriander, and tumeric belonging to the curry subset.

This does not take into account the Asian "green curry", which has plenty of peppers, but no tumeric.

So, all curry is stew, but not all stew is curry.

[AFK]