Topic: Passing wind after a curry

[George]

As Wikipedia says: "Flatulence is the expulsion through the rectum of a mixture of gases that are byproducts of the digestion process of mammals and other animals. The mixture of gases is known as flatus, (informally) fart, or simply gas, and is expelled from the rectum in a process colloquially referred to as "passing gas", "breaking wind", "boffing", "trumping", "squeezing one out", "guffing", "honking", "dropping one", "blowing off" or "farting"."

Last night i had one of the best curries I've had in ages. From a starter of chicken tikka and meat samosa (we shared) through to chicken biriani, chicken dhansak, keema naan and sag aloo, everything was superb. There's no way standards have fallen since the 1980s in this new restaurant.

BUT there was a price to pay afterwards, along the lines of my first paragraph above. I'm pleased to say I was home alone by then.

It's not a problem with all, or many BIRs, but does anyone know the likely cause? We might even be able to work backwards in that it may be necessary to take a hit with unpleasant after-effects if you want the food to be delicious when you eat it.

What's likely to cause it, in the specific case of the sauces and ingredients known to be used in a BIR?

[PaulP]

Hi George,

Lentils are a known source of flatulence, especially if you don't eat them very often.
That would be my best bet.

Paul

[commis]

Hi
Work backwards. Well George, look at legumes ect.
Regards

[Curry Barking Mad]

Its the onions every time for me....

[PaulP]

...and the lager 

[Secret Santa]

Oh this is timely.

I made a garlic chilli chicken last night and by God I could easily have given Le Petomane a run for his money afterwards!

Garlic does it every time for me and the quantity (and quality) of farts is always roughly proportional to the quantity of garlic ingested.

[Peripatetic Phil]

Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi swears by ajwain as an anti-flatulence agent.  Maybe suggest to your local BIR that they use more of it !

[Razor]

This certainly answers a lot of questions of farts and I mean a lot http://www.heptune.com/farts.html

[Stephen Lindsay]

I heard it said that undercooked chilli powder it the cause

[George]

Hi George, Lentils are a known source of flatulence, especially if you don't eat them very often. That would be my best bet.

You may be right because of the lentils in the dhansak but, there again, I had dhansak twice in the last few weeks at another BIR, with no such after effects. I also drink lager at least once a week and have never noticed a problem there.

Will we reach any kind of consensus? There are so many good suggestions.