Hot Curries
I was at an Indian Restaurant yesterday and saw on the menu not only Vindaloo but also Tindaloo (I know there are curries hotter than these too), and that got me thinkng. What's the hottest dish you have ever eaten?
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I went on a stag night many years [probably about 18 now] ago to anilas in Nottingham.
There was several of us who ordered a pharll, it was so hot I had to resort to scraping off the sauce and just eating the chicken, one other guy started dipping his in his beer to wash off the sauce.
I've got 80% vol [~160% proof] and it really burns your lips as it goes down.
I love anything hot and spicey... bombay mix I can get through a whole bag in an evening, and prefer pepper on my food to salt. Although all those hot foods I'm not to popular with the mrs, but at least my flatuence keeps the bed warm :lol:
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Tindaloo's are good, used to get one occasionally from my local Indian take away back home.
It's just a vindaloo, but they add those little green chilli peppers to it.
I used to love that stuff, but they stopped selling it here in the US where it originated, but you can still get that stuff back home :evil:
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personally I like most hot foods, got a small bottle of dave's insanity sauce for special occasions, it's a hot sauce that was once banned from a Fiery Foods contest in the US which gives you an idea of how hot it is. literally one drop in a curry will blow your head off. it used to be banned but now you can buy it from sainsbury's. I made the mistake of once using it then touching my eyes afterwards, and I honestly thought I was going to lose my eye, the tears were squirting out sideways :mad:
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I dont like my curries to hot like others have said I like to enjoy the flavours.
However, my dad likes very hot food but in a funny kind of macho way. I remember once when I was a teen, we were on Holiday in Lanzarote and we came across this curry house. When we went in my dad realised it was run by the Spanish and not Indians. He said something to the effect of 'oh its bloody Spanish, how disappointing wont be much cop then'. I believe he was overheard.
Anyway in his usual foolish macho way he said with a smirk 'I'll have the vindaloo'. The waiter warned 'are you sure sir, its very very hot, it is considered the hottest dish served on this island'. Dad still smirking claps and rubs his hands together as if to rub in some imaginary chalk, 'yeaaar bring it on' he said with a over confident nod and further smirking. I knew something was up as I saw the look our waiter gave his colleagues, did I tell my dad.... of course not.
Well when it came it was soo hot my dad had turned purple and was sweating rain drops. Being a stubborn proud and foolish man when the waiter came over and politely asked if everything was all right, my dad gleefully forced in a plentiful heap of this battery acid barely managing to grimace out the words 'oh yeah its great'. At the end of the meal there was a pool of water under his chair the table was soaking, and it was the best he could do to put one foot in front of the other. He was ill for the following 5 days. It was not nice to share a one toilet apartment, in fact you could smell it from the corridor outside.
Hottest I've had is Vindaloo but depeding on where in the country (UK) you live, hotness does vary massively. A Vindaloo in Braintree, Essex is less intense than a Madras in Derby.
Never had a pharll but a guy I knew in Derby used to cook and eat crazy-hot curries. One spoon taster another made had of his curry ruined the rest of his meal!
Oh, and Mrs. BloodBaz likes Bhuna or Dupiaza.
Bhuna is a good curry indeed, but I find it really hard to finish one too much methi leaf in it, really herby. Dupiaza is also really nice, I had my first encounter with one on New Years Day 1999 I think. I was so hungover I hadn't eaten anything all day and I was trying to force a bottle of sh*te export beer down my neck as a hair of the dog. My mates wife, well girlfriend at the time got a Dupiaza and gave me a little bit of it with a few of her chips demanding that if I felt so **** I had to eat something and it would make me feel better. After forcing the first couple of gobfulls down and managing to keep them down I started wolfing it down, it was lush. Really oniony, and kind of perfumy but not in a horrible way. Quite mild, but a little spicy, and it was a nice change from something that sears the roof of your mouth off.
Pathia is also a very tasty curry, my local take away's menu described it as a sweet and sour gravy for the sauce so I never tried it, as Sweet and sour type stuff usually makes me gag. But I tried some of a pals once, and even though the sauce was quite thin it was very tasty. Also it's surprisingly hotter than you'd imagine, but not ridiculous.
my local Indian used to do an interesting sounding curry that I meant to try, but I don't think I ever did? It was one of the chefs specials and it was Spicy Lamb, and it had I think Brocolli, and peas in it, but the clincher for me that got me interested was the fact the potatoes in it were roast potatoes. So it kinda sounded like a sunday dinner curry, my best mate said he thought it sounded sh*te, but the only actual proper meat he'll eat is chicken or turkey at a push, so he's obviously not gonna like it.
I love curry, I think it's high time I made a batch of it on my next day off before it gets too cold to cook it outside, or upstairs infront of the garage (The missus still won't let me cook it indoors, cos' it's smelly apparently :D).
I like hot n spicey but there comes a point where it just becomes bull**** masochism and not taste anymore
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slightly OT but I always thought it was funny how michael anthony the bass player from van halen has his own range of chili sauces :smile:
whatever it was it came n a tiny bottle not dissimilar from that one....and was NOT fit for human (or Wookiee) consumption
There's a curry hose down the end of our street that is the only one in town that does Phall's. I'm going to try one once I've built myself up with a vinderloo or two first as I've found really hot food gives me guts ache not that long after.
On a side note, I've got a couple of Peperami Fire Sticks in the fridge for later. Those things have a real kick to them too. If you like hot food, try eating 3 of those in a row ;-)
I was watching Man V Food last week and he did a challenge where he had to eat 12 of the worlds hottest chicken wings, then go 5 minutes after without having a drink. He went all shades of red and really looked like he wasn't enjoying himself at all :lol: He managed it though :D
*EDIT* OK, so that video doesn't actually have the wings segmaent (it's only the first half of the show!) But, I did find a wing's video with a sauce bade from those Ghost Chillies that were mentioned earlier...
ASDA were selling these then they stopped and I can't find them any more. unbelievably hot IMO. you just think oh it's pepperami it can't be that bad but I could barely finish one!
On the other hand bland curries are just as bad. My wifes parents always go for the blandest thing on the menu
The best curries are the ones that are mildly spicy but have oodles of flavour. Some curries I really like Chicken Chettinad (is the same as Madras I wonder), Lamb rogan josh, chicken do piyaza (literally chicken with 2 onions).
What is a tindaloo? Never heard of it!
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The hottest thing for me wasn't the **wait a second - oh my god, not sure if can eat this** kind of hot. It was more like someone dropping a few red hot needles down my neck. Ridiculous. It wasn't a curry either - it was a small red chillie. Mouth burning and numb lips don't bother me - but an instant line of pain down my neck does.
Back in the 80s my uncle chopped up chillies for a chillie eating competition down his local.
After chopping them all up and not washing his hands he went for a slash - you can guess what happened :lol: