To all concerned: please stop telling people to burn the curry.
I have long hesitated to address this term, but I feel compelled to say something after a friend of mine from Trinidad recently spoke in glowing terms of being told, the “secret” to a good curry is to burn the curry, as she set about making curry goat. There are many local YouTubers also making mouthwatering karahi(s) of all kinds of curries telling their audiences, ‘you have to burn the curry’.
I know that you know what you mean but that is not necessarily how it is being interpreted, especially when advising and sharing with those unfamiliar with the cooking of curry, or those looking to up their curry-making skills. Many people take that term literally and end up with curries with none of the fully developed flavours they are after.
