I have a package of curry mix that I believe is from India. It’s Parampara Chicken Kolhapuri, and one of the instructions is to cook for “two whistles.” So how long is this? Is it just a little saying? I guess I can see where, in a position without easy access to timepieces, I might gauge cooking time by whistling a song a fixed number of times, but what song are we talking about here?
Googling “cook two whistles” produced a number of pages–all discussing pressure cookers.
Googling “pressure cooker whistles” I got another long list of pages. None were explicit, however, several sites seemed to indicate that a pressure cooker will bleed off steam with a whistle (differing from a tea kettle that will whistle constantly once the water boils) and that cooking is done by counting the number of times the pressure cookers whistled. A single site translated one specific recipe of “two whistles” to 15 minutes–but remember that this is using a pressure cooker, not a sauce pan.
With luck an actual Indian cook will wander by with better information.
Since this is really about cooking, it might get a better response in Cafe Society with a more specific title, like “curry cooking time - two whistles?” You could ask a mod to move and retitle the thread.
Hallo,
my indian friend told me 2 whistles mean about 10 minutes (in pressure cooker)
Finally, an answer! It only took ~1,060,664 whistles… I believe your curry is done.
Someone creates an account to answer an obscure question from a DECADE ago. I love sdmb. (hehe my phone autocorrects “sdmb” to “dumb”.)
I have a real question: how do people dig up these questions? I can only see about 100 threads.
ETA: nevermind I see the display options on the bottom now. I have it filtered to last two days.
Now I’m wondering who in their right mind is digging thru posts from ten years ago…
Google, usually. Often the thread corresponds to a particular person’s favourite soapbox, more often the reason anyone would be Googling a phrase that finds the thread is more obscure.