Topic: what's too hot?

[diverdil]

ok so last night i decided to make a curry. armed with 6 big bottles of cobra and a nice mix of spices, base and some nice cooked chicken. i set about making a madras but i just got carried away. i thought why the hell not chucking the chilli powder in. i then thought hey lets chuck 2 teaspoons of naga paste in. it all seemed fine while cooking it. i sat down with some rice and a naan and ate it. this is an experience i never wish to have again. i refused to give up through tears running down my face and my mouth feeling like it was on fire. i had to fight for air through the hiccups. i even went dizzy (possibly the cobra)

this morning on waking i noticed a feeling i have never felt before. my stomach was on fire and mouth was burnt inside. i won't even try and explain the trip to the toilet but i was certainly singing ring of fire

i just want to know why do we feel the need to do it? what drives us to eat insanly hot chillies and curries?

i'm also curious of others experience of hot curries?

[Peripatetic Phil]

i just want to know why do we feel the need to do it? what drives us to eat insanly hot chillies and curries?  i'm also curious of others experience of hot curries?

I don't know what drives us to do it. In my youth I progressed up the heat ladder from Bhuna to Pathia to Madras to Vindaloo to Bangalore Phal, and I stopped there for several months. Then I developed IBS and had to go right back to Bhuna (which I loved, because this was at a time when a Bhuna was still a wonderful, dryish, flavour-rich dish) and then slowly progressed back to Madras with an occasional (but rare) excursion into Vindaloo.  Never again have I even been tempted to try another Bangalore Phal, and I do not think I ever will.  As for "Man v. Curry" contests, I am afraid I regard them as just another instance of macho insanity; a completely pointless exercise that can not only lead to personal harm but can also place a totally unnecessary burden on our already overstretched ambulance and A&E services.

** Phil.

[Malc.]

I have certainly climbed the ladder over the past few years but in all honesty, would not eat anything hotter than a madras or Jalfrezi. I like the naga taste but wouldn't have continued eating your dish as you have explained it. Especially in fear of the effects you have described the day after.

I've had so many spicy curry dishes over the past months that I now do not enjoy them as the dishes they once were. I have become far too familiar with them. Instead, I now prefer milder dishes that I can taste and dare I say, I have become bored with curry.

I once had a friend that I dared to eat a whole standard size jar of Coleman's Hot English Mustard. He consumed it with a burger as was agreed. He suffered a similar experience, with mustard weeping from his tears, he was even sneezing it through his nose. He had to ask for a towel to mop up the copious amount of sweat, you could see the pain on his face, but despite all this, he won the bet and earned his 2 pints of Guinness! Why he chose to do this to himself I have no idea.

[DalPuri]

I have become bored with curry.

  BLASPHEMER!!  Erect the stake and prepare the faggots!  ;D

[Peripatetic Phil]

BLASPHEMER!!  Erect the stake and prepare the faggots!  ;D

I hope you're not suggesting that my esteemed fellow contributor Axe is a faggot, Sir :  if you are, it will have to be sabres at dawn ...

** Phil.

[DalPuri]

BLASPHEMER!!  Erect the stake and prepare the faggots!  ;D

I hope you're not suggesting that my esteemed fellow contributor Axe is a faggot, Sir :  if you are, it will have to be sabres at dawn ...

** Phil.

 

Always tried my very hardest not to adopt the American language.   
(skedule  )

[Peripatetic Phil]

Always tried my very hardest not to adopt the American language.   
(skedule  )

Skedule I can live with.  But "awesome", "leverage" (with short "e", as a verb), "wanna", "gonna", "I was like ... and she was like ...",-- these make me vomit !  Oh dear, thread de-railed again ...

[Malc.]

I have become bored with curry.

  BLASPHEMER!!  Erect the stake and prepare the faggots!  ;D

It's shameful I know, but that won't stop me enjoying pork chops, mash, peas and gravy tonight.  ;D

I'm with you on the American pronunciation too, really bugs me. Lever sounds like a cockney saying leather. lol

[chonk]

i just want to know why do we feel the need to do it? what drives us to eat insanly hot chillies and curries?

i'm also curious of others experience of hot curries?

Sugar and fats work like opium, so does chili. Your body just feels the heat, and will release endorphins. But if you go dizzy, sweat like hell and hear some ringing, it's time to stop. You could pass out ;P

[Peripatetic Phil]

Always tried my very hardest not to adopt the American language.   
(skedule  )

Skedule I can live with.  But "awesome", "leverage" (with short "e", as a verb), "wanna", "gonna", "I was like ... and she was like ...",-- these make me vomit !  Oh dear, thread de-railed again ...

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