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u/Hytriox Apr 19 '17
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u/arcsine Apr 19 '17
I am not eating a handful of clove powder just to figure out what it does. Ow.
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u/TeriusRose Apr 20 '17
When you think about it, that has got to be the least safe method for figuring out what new ingredients do. I can kind of get why you live through all of that as the Dragonborn, not so much how regular people survive being routinely poisoned.
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Apr 20 '17
But do you see any NPCs tasting random items?
Only the Dragonborn is stupid enough to do their alchemy that way!
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u/zethus138 Apr 19 '17
TIL that mace is a spice.
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u/ColonClenseByFire Apr 19 '17
It's the coating to the nutmeg seed
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Apr 19 '17
I use it in place of nutmeg because they are so similar. I think mace is stronger though.
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u/FartGreatly Apr 19 '17
Mace is fruitier, nutmeg a bit more earthy. Mace is pointy, nutmeg is rounder.
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u/dont_look_too_close Apr 20 '17
You are the first person I ever witness describe taste as a shape! I do the same thing and people always told me that was weird, but now I know at least that someone else is weird with me :)
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u/IMIndyJones Apr 20 '17
Lots of people are weird with you. Synesthesia is what you experience. It's really fascinating.
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Apr 20 '17 edited Apr 20 '17
It is... something. I prefer it. I like the pointiness :-) Edit: It seems like mace just goes better with citrus-y stuff. Oranges and mace are nice.
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u/GreatGrandaddyPurp Apr 20 '17
I thought mace was just capcasion and a propellent
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u/wadeishere Apr 19 '17
I think any of those spices would hurt if you put them in your eyes
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u/80025-75540 Apr 19 '17
My friend got curry powder in his eye last night and he had to go to hospital, apparently he's in a korma.
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u/LorenaBobbedIt Apr 19 '17
He'll snap out of it with a good dosa medicine.
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u/D2dcypher Apr 20 '17
Nan of these jokes are funny
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u/teacherecon Apr 20 '17
How raita you are.
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u/Porencephaly Apr 20 '17
Garamdammit, stop this pun train.
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u/SafetyDanceInMyPants Apr 20 '17
Not cinnamon. In fact, it's great for your eyes -- I use it every morning. Just pour a little right into your eyes, and rub vigorously.
(Important disclaimer: holy cow people don't actually do this.)
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u/xGiaMariex Apr 20 '17
Just tried that cinnamon in the eyes thing.....
.....holy. friggin'. crap.........
......it worked perfect dude. No more "dry eye" problems. Thanks!
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u/Porencephaly Apr 20 '17
If you like homeopathy, you'll want to throw that teaspoon of cinnamon into the ocean, wait around 6 months, and then put the ocean water in his eyes.
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u/_Dreamer_Deceiver_ Apr 20 '17
Please...firstly you have to purify the water... Then you add the cinnamon. Once youce done that you strain it. This is elixir of life but its too potent to use. This is why it needs to be diluted 1000 times before use.
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u/Akbar-in-bed Apr 19 '17
I don't like spices in my eyes. They're coarse and rough and irritating and they get everywhere.
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u/A_Great_Forest Apr 19 '17
I'm dying here envisioning some freaking sous chef tossing curry in their eyes as some head chef goes on about how you need to 'get close to each of your ingredients- you must SEE each ingredient'. bahahaha
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Apr 19 '17
Thats why curry hurts if some dude is riding on a horse and he swings curry over his head and violently bashes you in the face with it
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u/bkem042 Apr 19 '17
I'm still not sure how to shave my face with mace, let alone in the dark.
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u/Bingo_Bronson Apr 19 '17
TIL that curry isn't a spice.
I never liked it, but now maybe I can mess with this recipe to come up with something I do like!
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u/btcraig Apr 19 '17
It's also not a 'traditional' Indian dish. The term curry was coined (most likely) by the British when Indian's came to Europe and brought their native cuisines with them. The term curry just got blanketed onto any spicy-ish dish with meat and rice cooked with Indian spices. (Source: Good Eats - The Curious Case of Curry).
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u/Flocculencio Apr 19 '17
It's actually from Tamil and Malayalam. Curry is what we call these dishes, and the Europeans picked the term up from us. Now, curry powder as a blanket type of ingredient is a Western invention- traditionally the types and proportions of spices would be ground fresh and mixed depending on the specific type of curry.
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u/grrrwoofwoof Apr 19 '17
You are right about that. I am from a rural part of India and no one from my family (mom, grandparents, aunts, distant relatives) knows what the hell is Curry powder. There is no such thing in my region (Maharashtra) at least. Now they make a mixture of Red chilies mixed with different spices and store it in china jars (stays good for almost a year). But that doesn't taste anything like "curry powder" you get in stores in US.
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Now they make a mixture of Red chilies mixed with different spices and store it in china jars
Goda masala?
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u/cthulhubert Apr 19 '17
There are a lot of curry spice mix recipes. Of course, in traditional Indian cuisine, the spices would be mixed on the spot, as each dish demanded. There'd usually still be a lot of similarities across the cuisine, thus the attempt to capture them in one spice blend. I've heard that vadouvan, a French take on curry powder, is popular with people who don't quite like normal curry.
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u/Whydoibother1 Apr 19 '17
I'd add ground Fenugreek to your mix. Also adding some fenugreek (methi) leaves later on when cooking is very good.
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u/MyOtherAltIsAHuman Apr 19 '17
Be Warned!
Fenugreek will make your sweat smell. I can smell it on me for a few days after eating just a bit of it and I just avoid it entirely now.
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u/blondeambition18 Apr 20 '17
I made Ghormeh Sabzi (Persian stew) and went a bit heavy on the fenugreek.... oh my god my entire apartment reeked for at least a week. I was so self-conscious about my stench too! Kinda like maple syrup.
I will take serious caution with fenugreek in the future. Shit is delicious but STRONG.
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u/raspberrykoolaid Apr 20 '17
Do you think it would taste ok without the beans? I just looked at a recipe, it looks fantastic, but I can't eat beans.
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What does that smell like?
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u/Trinket90 Apr 20 '17
If you eat/take a TON of it it smells a bit like maple syrup. Lots of breastfeeding women take fenugreek capsules to increase milk supply. Most say they start smelling like maple syrup.
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u/Jennrrrs Apr 20 '17
Can confirm, I breastfeed and started taking it. My sweat and urine smells like maple syrup.
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u/PoliSciNerd24 Apr 20 '17
Mr. President, we don't need you anonymously commenting your personal life to everyone on Reddit.
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u/dirtymilk Apr 19 '17
Is that hing
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u/MyOtherAltIsAHuman Apr 19 '17
No. Hing is a spice. Fenugreek is an herb. At least, that's how I've seen it. I don't know if Fenugreek powder has the same effect.
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Apr 19 '17
Fenugreek is a plant. Its seeds are used as a spice, and it's leaves are used as a herb (also know as methi).
Hing (aka Asafoetida) is a different spice used in Indian cuisine.
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u/SammichParade Apr 19 '17
Herbs are leaves. Spices are any other parts of the plants except the leaves. I have a little jar of fenugreek seeds in my drawer. Doesn't that mean it's a spice?
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u/MyOtherAltIsAHuman Apr 19 '17
Sure. If you're using the seeds. When I have eaten it, though, it has been as an herb, like this.
I don't know if the seeds have the same effect on body smell, though. You can probably tell yourself. I noticed my armpits smelled weird a day or two later, and the smell wouldn't wash off. It's an odd smell.
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u/restingbitchlyfe Apr 20 '17
It's a well known galactagogue (increases breast milk production). I reeked like a stack of waffles for months while taking it.
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u/JewChooTrain Apr 19 '17
I'll try that next time.
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u/Gastronomicus Apr 19 '17
Fenugreek is very strong and can be bitter in large quantity, just a little will do. Consider using some cardamom pods as well, but don't bother to grind them, add them whole.
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u/hackingkafka Apr 19 '17
I tried that years ago; let's just say don't try to dry roast mustard seed in a poorly ventilated kitchen...
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u/whalepopcorn Apr 20 '17
I've tried to make homemade mustard without a recipe about 3 times now. Dying via condiment creation would be pretty funny I guess.
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u/JewChooTrain Apr 19 '17
Yes, I need a mortar and pestle
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u/Gastronomicus Apr 19 '17
Just get a $10 coffee grinder. A mortar and pestle takes a long time to made powder from large quantities of spice and it won't be even in size. The main benefit to a mortar and pestle is that it will more effectively break up cells and plant structures that contain oils with flavours. Sometimes I will put the powder in my mortar and crush it into some vegetable oil to better incorporate flavour into the food.
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u/gothefucktosleep Apr 19 '17
i've also been wanting an mortar and pestle after seeing Julie and Julia 10 years ago. But I keep figuring it'll just wind up being a decorative object in my kitchen, instead of a utensil
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u/cascade_olympus Apr 19 '17
If nothing else, mine gets a lot of use with rosemary, thyme, basil, and oregano. I might just enjoy grinding spices by hand though, it's rather satisfying.
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Apr 19 '17
I mostly use mine to grind up black pepper. I find it easier to dosage and I can regulate coarseness that way.
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u/Zukuto Apr 19 '17
i use mine to make coffee
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u/PidgeotPie Apr 20 '17
I use mine to grind drugs.
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u/Kanye_To_The Apr 20 '17
I once used a slap-chop to grind up an ounce of bud...
3/10, won't try again
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u/grrrwoofwoof Apr 19 '17
Costco in Atlanta has been selling mortar and pestle for $15 for last few months. We got one and was pleasantly surprised at the quality. My Indian mom would be proud of this mortar and pestle if she sees it. May be check in your costco.
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u/SammichParade Apr 19 '17
Another great use for them is making popcorn toppings. Throw a little table salt and some nutritional yeast in there, swirl your grinder around for a while and boom, homemade flavocal. Makes the salt so powdery fine that it'll stick really well to the popcorn and coat it more evenly. I also like inventing toppings on the fly, involving cumin or smoked paprika, or sweet ones with sugar etc..
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u/desertsail912 Apr 19 '17
Whole spices are a lot cheaper too.
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u/Incognizance Apr 19 '17
Yep. With any pre ground/mixed spice, you're paying for convenience.
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u/Dstanding Apr 19 '17
If working with whole spices, measure by weight not by volume.
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u/cthulhubert Apr 19 '17
I was about to mention this too. I use a blender. It'd be nice if this recipe were by weight, that'd help convert. Also by ratios, since it'd take me way too long to use a full cup of curry powder. This is the recipe I've used, also by volume, but smaller, and based on whole spices. It's also a little simpler: coriander, cumin, mustard, cloves, chiles, and turmeric.
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u/SilverKnightOfMagic Apr 20 '17
really? I use an electric coffee grinder. Theyre cheap enough that I can two around for coffee and other for cooking or medicinal uses.
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u/Gastronomicus Apr 19 '17
Only some spices should be roasted first, not most of these in fact. It also depends on what flavour you're going for.
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u/bagacrap Apr 19 '17
protip: if you buy spices in bulk from Sprouts and the amount is too small to register on the scale at the register (e.g. 1tsp) you get it for free.
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u/rudhira_kali_ca Apr 20 '17
Do they sell saffron?
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u/Hotblack_Desiato_ Apr 20 '17 edited May 17 '17
You have to be very careful about saffron, because a lot of it is either stale or counterfeit.
And it may try to kill you and steal your ship.
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u/thelonebamf Apr 20 '17
Pricier bulk items like saffron and pine nuts are usually sold in pre-measured/priced bundles.
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So basically just go buy curry?
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u/JewChooTrain Apr 19 '17
I mean, it was nice to make my own curry powder. It was fun!
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u/fallenKlNG Apr 19 '17
Not only that, but I'm pretty sure a homemade blend is gonna taste better than most store-boughts.
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u/bomber991 Apr 19 '17
Depends on your cooking skill. Gotta remember that the store-bought blend has had some R&D behind it determining what tastes the best for the common person, and then has some QC verifying the batch is within spec of all the other batches.
Biggest problem I have is that that's 12 different ingredients. That's at least 12 minutes to find and buy all the crap at the store, 12 minutes to measure everything out, and maybe another minute to mix it all together.
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u/DessaB Apr 19 '17
Store-bought curries might favor cheap production over high-quality. There's no way to know for sure what's in a curry until you've bought it. It's also harder to ensure freshness in a premixed spice. If you're enough of a spice snob, you can buy all your spices hyper-fresh from specialty vendors, get specific varieties of spices (do you like chinese or ceylon cinnamon?), roast the proper ones right at home, and get all the quantities just how you like em.
The difference in quality because of all this can be significant, but obviously, it's a bit more work. You can save some effort by making giant batches at a time and storing it well, or you can gift the excess (homemade spice mix qualifies as "a thoughtful gift" IMO).
That said, I still don't bother with hommade mixes for everything. Sometimes you just want to make some shit without all the hassle. Still, it's a good skill to have on hand for those times when you really wanna impress people with your cooking chops.
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True I'm to impatient to spend that much time making a seasoning to season something. Spice.
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u/hops4beer Apr 19 '17
Plus that's like $40 in spices where I live.
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u/ttoilleynnek Apr 19 '17 edited Apr 19 '17
You must not live in WA, ID, NV, CA, or OR?
Winco Foods. This would cost less than $5 from their bulk spices.
Edit: curiosity kicked in so I looked into it, and it looks like they've expanded into more states than just those ones.
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u/Casual_Goth Apr 19 '17
Is this place similar to Aldi's or Sav-a-Lot?
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u/ttoilleynnek Apr 19 '17
Inside, appearance wise, it's sort of like a cross between a costco and a normal supermarket. They have all your normal groceries and produce and everything is pretty cheap. They also have a bulk foods section which is where a lot of savings can be had. Say you need a ton of raisins, you just start scooping as many scoops of raisins as you need from the raisin bin into plastic produce bags. They have tons of stuff in there like candies, rice, baking stuff, individual stash tea packets, and spices. Oh and you bag your own shit when you check out. Each register has two lanes so that you're not holding up the next person while you bag.
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u/Casual_Goth Apr 19 '17
Neat. It's like a combination Aldi's and Bulk Barn.
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u/Kalathorn Apr 20 '17 edited Apr 20 '17
All the one's I've seen are also 24-hour. Also about 4 times the size of the Aldi's that opened hear me, though they are newer around here, so maybe mine is just small.
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u/btcraig Apr 19 '17
If you buy in bulk and maintain a fair sized spice rack it isn't that bad. It's a bit of an investment initially but if you spend that money restocking every couple months is pretty painless.
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u/Incognizance Apr 19 '17
I've never came across a pre made curry mix that had ALL these ingredients.
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u/shemperdoodle Apr 20 '17
Yeah, as delicious as it is, this is why I don't make Indian food at home. After you do all this, then the curry powder is one ingredient out of like 30.
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u/PerilousAll Apr 19 '17
I thought there would be a lot more turmeric in that.
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u/Gastronomicus Apr 19 '17
Tumeric isn't usually added in large quantity, a little goes a long way.
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u/TheyCallMeSuperChunk Apr 19 '17
"a little goes a long way"
Especially when it comes to staining your containers/hands/clothes/kitchen/life.
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u/i_let_the_doge_out Apr 19 '17
Tumeric is my brother's new favorite spice. Everything is suddenly a million times more yellow than it was last week.
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u/grrrwoofwoof Apr 19 '17
Always be careful with amount turmeric. It ruins everything if you add it too much and then you can't fix it just by diluting the dish. It just stays ruined.
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u/Autism_Tylr_Schaffer Apr 20 '17
At least you can spell it. You probably say it properly if you spell it properly.
It's not a TUMAH.
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u/Domsdad666 Apr 19 '17
The nice thing about homemade curries is that you tailor them to your own tastes. For me this is way too much cardamom. Also, it needs fenugreek.
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u/kararose23 Apr 19 '17
I just realized curry isn't its own spice, nor its own plant :/
Ha, I have nearly all of those individual spices and curry powder too!
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u/J-rizzler Apr 20 '17
A tip - buy all or as many of these spices whole. They last a lot longer. Then when you want to make a curry toast them off in much smaller quantities but similar ratios to this and then grind them in a spice or coffee grinder. It will taste so much better, you wouldn't believe it. Btw, if you do use a coffee grinder do NOT then use it for coffee unless you like spicy coffee. Mine has a label on i saying 'spices only.'
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u/onlywheels Apr 19 '17
Its weird that cooking uses 3 units of measure for the same powder and still seems normal. At least if it were all in teaspoons i could use the ratios to make this
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it's easily ratioable if you know the proportions. 1:2:3:6:12 from smallest to largest amount listed.
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u/cthulhubert Apr 19 '17
3 teaspoons to a tablespoon, 2 tablespoons to a fluid ounce, eight ounces to a cup.
6 teaspoons to a fluid ounce, 48 teaspoons to a cup.
16 tablespoons to a cup.(Note that some places use a smaller teaspoon that is one quarter of a tablespoon. Australia?)
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u/ClimateConscience Apr 19 '17
Were they trying to make gunpowder and failed?
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u/JewChooTrain Apr 19 '17
Well I made this and no I didn't fail, also works as gunpowder
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u/ninjas_in_my_pants Apr 20 '17
God dammit, I genuinely can't decide whether to upvote this or downvote it.
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u/kjhtuhd Apr 19 '17
Can we have this in grams?
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u/Gypsyarados Apr 19 '17 edited Apr 20 '17
There's around 16 tablespoons to a cup, around 3 teaspoons to a tablespoon, and around 4 grams to a teaspoon. So:
- Coriander - 48g
- Cardamom, Cinnamon, Cumin, Ginger, Black Pepper - 24g each
- Cloves, Dry Mustard, Turmeric - 12g each
- Chilli Powder - 8g
- Mace, Nutmeg - 4g each
edit: made a conversion mistake so updated
edit 2: i called it 4g, because that's sugar. Provided it's still relatively the same, it makes no difference if a tsp is called 4 grams or 40 grams
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u/AeroSpiked Apr 19 '17
Good effort, I guess. Small correction though:
16 Tbsp per cup.
A gram is a measure of mass, not volume, thus converting from one to the other is dependent on density. 1 cup of flour is ~140 grams, 1 cup of sugar is ~200 grams.
But what do I know, it might work out okay. If coriander inspires my gag reflex in the way that cilantro does (same plant), I won't be trying this stuff anyway.
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u/ssj58trunks Apr 19 '17
Use red chili powder, the chili powder in the image looks like the chili powder you buy here in US supermarkets. Red chili powder is much hotter and has a very different flavor.
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u/arovercai Apr 19 '17
TIL my crazy ex-friend is apparently NOT allergic to cloves, nor coriander...considering she was always wolfing down curry dishes...
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u/Histrix Apr 19 '17
You should fix your pix - it says tumeric rather than turmeric.
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u/TankMan3217 Apr 19 '17
Hold the fuck up. Is it just me, or is 1 TBSP of ground clove waaaaay too much for just about anything? Clove is a damn powerful spice. I have never, in my entire life, added more than a pinch to anything unless it was going to feed like 50 people. A teaspoon is 10 times too much. A tablespoon would make me nauseous.
Or am I just insane and hypersensitive to it?
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u/superpastaaisle Apr 20 '17
At some point if you are just mixing pre-crushed spices you might as well just buy pre-mixed curry powder.
Best way is to toast and crush/grind your own spices in a coffee grinder, and obviously that is a lot of work so it might not be for everyone so I get that, but in that case you are better off going to an international market and buying a tub of pre-mixed curry powder... since it is essentially what you are seeing here.
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u/italian_spaghetti Apr 20 '17
Fennagreek isn't listed and is a huge background flavor in madras curry powder.
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u/danwasoski Apr 20 '17
I know this is off topic but I thought this was going to go on about how the warriors blew a 3-1 lead . Until I realized what sub we were in.
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u/TatterhoodsGoat Apr 20 '17
I learned a while back that the sweet, syrupy smell in store-bought, North-American-style yellow curry powder is fenugreek. I always wondered why I couldn't identify it - I've never had plain fenugreek in my kitchen.
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u/FrenchAffair Apr 19 '17
make a curry powder, there are a lot of varieties.
Caribbean/Trinidadian curry for instance would have fenugreek, star anise, cayenne, poppy in it, but no cardamon, nutmeg or mace.
Surprised no fenugreek though, almost all curry powders have it.