Topic: THE KNOCK

[Spice-as-Nice]

Sorry this is a long post . Why am I here writing this post at 6am you might ask. Last night , having bought fresh Coriander and Methi earlier in the day , I could resist no longer. It was about 10pm and I just had to make a curry. I asked my commanding officer if she wanted one but she said no, so it was still going to be made for 2 but one would go in the fridge or freezer and the other one to eat now. I quickly got to work with the pan, frying the usual ingredients ( no base this time ) . I used some pre-cooked chicken I had stored in the freezer so it was gonna be made as quick as I could. After 10 minutes I had the whole thing bubbling and was nearly to the end. In this time I had also made 2 Chapattis on my newly bought Chapatti pan. ( works a treat ). The only thing to do now was to HOT-UP the mix. It tasted very flavoursome but with NO Chilli in it yet, so I knew that once the red stuff was added it was going to be even tastier. I suddenly remembered that I had also bought earlier some "East End Green Chilli Sauce" ( see pic if I manage to attach it ). So, I decided to use that , then add chilli powder if needed. I put in 2 teaspoons of the "sauce" . Remember , this was a curry for 2 in the pan so you can guess approximate quantity. I did a small taste test and boy it was hot. I tried to calm it a little by cooking for a bit longer and adding more tomato puree and then decided to go with it so I dished it up. It all looked lovely. I put it on a tray complete with chapatti's and my usual glass of milk and presented the view to my wife as I entered the living room. Wow she said , that looks nice and it smells lovely.  On making a little scoop with a pulled off bit of Chapatti and sliding it into my mouth I knew there and then it was going to be a banger. It was lovely but very very very hot. Almost the hottest I have ever eaten ( but not quite ). because it was so flavoursome I carried on , thinking it might ease off as I got used to it. It didn't , but I kept eating and in between , needing to take larger and larger sips at my milk. I managed about half of it and didn't even get onto my second chapatti when I had to admit to myself I couldn't eat anymore. Jeeze it was hot.  ( yes it was tasty , so it's gone in the fridge to play with later ).
OK , now to THE KNOCK . What I'm asking is .... does anyone else get The Knock ? It's what me and the wife call it. Sometimes , when I manage to produce a cracking curry ( most are not, they're edible but average ). Some time after eating a "cracker" we get a sort of "bodily system earthquake". It's like all the spices in the curry have caused a shift in many bodily functions. My blood pressure may go up. Heart rate increase , Slight headache, feeling very hot ( not surprising that one ? ) uncontrolled sweating from top of head. Eyes feel like they're popping out a bit. Unable to focus properly. Stomach feels like it's a butter churn full of sloppy cement. After a while these symptoms subside and you're left with maybe a dull headache or a sort of hangover feeling. Now, this doesn't happen every time I cook a curry . I seem to suffer them more than my wife. The last one she had , she said she would never have a curry again ( but she has ) . Anyhow , this is what happened to me last night . I had a knock. Hence me being up from 5 am today and sitting here now typing this up.  What I want to know is ... does anyone else get "THE KNOCK" ?


If you use this sauce. ** WARNING ** ...... ITS HOT , use very sparingly.

[Mikka1]

I cannot see the image. It says 0 bytes. (I would like to though please).
Anyway chilli can kill some people, it's known.

I think your warning should be headed.

There are several bottles of paste. Chilli, Cilantro and others. All look harmless, all pack a massive punch and should be used very carefully.

[Spice-as-Nice]

I cannot see the image. It says 0 bytes. (I would like to though please).

I have deleted and re-uploaded the image many times but it just does not show. I have re-taken the photo and tried uploading but still doesn't show. Iv'e tried it in jpg ( properties = 12kb )  and gif ( properties = 69kb )and also other file sizes but it still wont show. I emailed the photo to another email account and it goes through OK . I tried uploading to a different site and the picture uploads ok so , sorry , don't know whats wrong but with cr0 it's a no-go.    SEE FAR DOWN PAGE TO SEE PICTURE

[Cory Ander]

Upload it to the cr0 image hosting website SaN (http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/imagehost/) and then link it to here.

[Spice-as-Nice]

Upload it to the cr0 image hosting website SaN (http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/imagehost/) and then link it to here.

Thanks for that , you spicy devil. I'll give it a try >>> here it should be

[Mikka1]

OMG! 
No wonder. Careful with that stuff. You only need a little, and its best to add some and see where its going first but beware your tongue will numb fooling you a little.

Glad you are ok now though, are you?

[CurryOnRegardless]

We call that stuff 'Sandwich Spread' where I come from.....lol.

Cheers
CoR

[currymonster]

Hmm, could be a way of avoiding the powdery taste of lots of chilli powder when making a Phall...

[Spice-as-Nice]

OMG! 
No wonder. Careful with that stuff. You only need a little, and its best to add some and see where its going first but beware your tongue will numb fooling you a little.

Glad you are ok now though, are you?

No, not 100% OK yet at 1.30 pm .

Now , my commanding officer has gone out Christmas shopping. She says she wants a curry for when she gets back about 5pm. I still have loads n loads of fresh Corander and Methi in the fridge. Ime drinking tea and coffee about every 20 minutes or so. Maybe by about 4pm I will be back to my normal self . ( FAT BALD OLD 40-a-day Git ). Now I see many mentions about this grean sauce but no-one commented yet on THE KNOCK . Does anyone out there know what im'e talking about ? or is it just me ? As I mention above , it doesn't happen often . Maybe about 1 in ten . I think it's when I go a bit overboard on the spices. Iv'e had the same thing happen ( rare ) with a takaway. I am talking about something that knocks you sideways  Big Time. Like you might have eaten something really well dodgy but you havn't. It comes on very slight as your'e eating the curry. You know it's going to happen but you put it to the back of your mind and keep eating but then by the time you have finished the curry its there and getting worse.  It's probably about 30 minutes to an hour after that it peaks. At that point im'e eating ice cream , drinking milk , glugging Gaviscon , eating chocolate as all these things seem to ease the symptoms.  Im'e no wakky backy man or anything like that but I would imagine it's something like taking soemthing of that ilk . So come on, whats your thoughts ?

[PaulP]

My curries don't seem to do that to me - thank god!

I can recall from ages ago when I used to eat much hotter food sitting on the loo the next day feeling really dicky and getting into a cold sweat - it that the sort of thing you mean by the "KNOCK" or is it something else?