On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Martin Senftleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry to bother you with this. We wanted to make Idli here in Germany, > but didn't take a cooker with us when we left India. Stupid. So I > tried now to get one from a shop in the US, but they charge about six > times the price of the cooker for postage (180 US$). I think that's > not worth it. > Are there other means, e.g. in Europe (UK), to get such a set? Who has > an idea?
Are you looking for a special-purpose Idli cooker? Or would an Indian-style pressure cooker with an Idli stand attachment be ok? The idli stand looks like so: http://www.nribazaar.com/product.sc;jsessionid=5587DD251A429209396E90B2967DAB53.qscstrfrnt04?productId=377 Your best bet to find it at a reasonable price is to buy it from a brick and mortar Indian grocery store. I found these listings for Germany: http://www.indianfoodsguide.com/indian-food-guide/indian-grocery-stores/germany/ If you buy the idli stand you can use it with an Indian-style pressure cooker or any steamer into which the idli stand fits. I'd be glad to buy an idli stand here in California and mail it out to you. They are pretty light. Thaths -- "I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'." -- Homer J. Simpson
