Topic: Do you enjoy a Phal and is there anything hotter?

[GV1]

I really enjoy a Phal. It can get painful, but I enjoy it, although I hate the morning after. The toilet session seriously painful.

I've never made my own Phal as the curry house I use make a proper one but I am tempted to give it a shot. Is there anything hotter than a Phal?

[Peripatetic Phil]

I really enjoy a Phal. It can get painful, but I enjoy it, although I hate the morning after. The toilet session seriously painful.

I've never made my own Phal as the curry house I use make a proper one but I am tempted to give it a shot. Is there anything hotter than a Phal?

Possibly, in a restaurant, but at home there are no limits : a Phal is just a name, you can create a dish as hot as you wish !

Incidentally, I too used to love Phals, until one day I developed IBS.  I then had to lay off curries completely for several months (almost as bad as giving up sex), and then re-start with Bhunas.  Now I normally eat Madras, and will go as far as a Vindaloo ('though in general I regard these as a waste of money : you are paying for potato when you could be paying for chicken !), but I will never again intentionally eat a Phal.

** Phil.

[GV1]

Possibly, in a restaurant, but at home there are no limits : a Phal is just a name, you can create a dish as hot as you wish !

Incidentally, I too used to love Phals, until one day I developed IBS.  I then had to lay off curries completely for several months (almost as bad as giving up sex), and then re-start with Bhunas.  Now I normally eat Madras, and will go as far as a Vindaloo ('though in general I regard these as a waste of money : you are paying for potato when you could be paying for chicken !), but I will never again intentionally eat a Phal.

** Phil.

Do you think that was linked to the Phal's and the hot curries? I've sort of got an addiction to curries, especially the hot ones. Last week I had 3 take outs (Phal), and cooked 2 vindaloo's at home. It's been this way for years, but I mainly cook my own.

I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I never seem to put on much weight eating spicy curries though.

[chriswg]

There is a curry that is hotter than a Phal that is available at any Indian restaurant.

Simply tell the waiter to tell the chef that he is a wimp with his spiciness and even your wife could eat his 'so-called' Phal. See what turns up on your plate as a result. Also, keep an eye on the window to the kitchen as most of the staff will want a laugh as you attempt to eat their death curry.

Unfortunately, in order to save face, you will have to eat the whole thing without sweating or swearing. If you win the battle you will become a legend!

[coogan]

Yep! That will work.

bon hell

[Peripatetic Phil]

Do you think that [IBS] was linked to the Phal's and the hot curries?

Probably a combination of the Phals and the fact that when I wasn't eating a Phal I was eating Chinese food (reasonably authentic) from a restaurant in Euston that was probably the major shareholder in Monosodium Glutamate plc :-)

[GV1]

I did notice a couple times that the Phal I ordered was around Vindaloo temperature. I complained that it wasn't hot enough. Ever since then they have made the Phal very hot. I called up once to thank the chef for the hot curry. As a result I seem to get free starters with every delivery :/

I think anyone eating a decent Phal, or anything hotter is going to have a challenge whether its the increasing heat as you take more mouthfuls, or profuse sweating (thankfully I don't sweat). But, that's the pleasure of eating them. Besides the spiciness of the curry is real nice flavour.

I would love to cook one similar to the takeaways though. Every recipe I've seen lacks bhut jolokia and some even lack habaneros which without the habaneros at least would make it Vindaloo, possibly lighter.

There is a curry that is hotter than a Phal that is available at any Indian restaurant.

Simply tell the waiter to tell the chef that he is a wimp with his spiciness and even your wife could eat his 'so-called' Phal. See what turns up on your plate as a result. Also, keep an eye on the window to the kitchen as most of the staff will want a laugh as you attempt to eat their death curry.

Unfortunately, in order to save face, you will have to eat the whole thing without sweating or swearing. If you win the battle you will become a legend!

[GV1]

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[976bar]

I've never tried a Phal in a restaurant, but I am sure I have made something in the extreme heat region at home using habenaro chili's and extra hot chili powder from Rajah.

To be honest, after the first mouthful the mouth is so numb that I just cannot taste anything else of the dish, so for me it's a total waste of time. When you're eyes are watering, your mid section is burning with pain, you have to have a box of kleenex next to you so that you can stop the contents of you're nose from adding to the dish.... I kinda ask myself.... why am I doing this?

Over the years my chili "head" as it were has gotten a lot hotter, and I always know when I have had just over the limit of what I can take, because I get a serious bout of the hiccups as my diaphragm goes into spasm's much to the delight of my fellow diners!! I guess they like to see people suffer..... I get the hiccups for around 45 minutes then return to normal whereby either my dinner has either gone cold or it has been eaten by my fellow diners!!!!