Eat your hearts out Darth and you Chilliheads.

The Bhut Jolokia Chilli

The Bhut Jolokia meaning Bhut = Ghost/Spirit, Jolokia = chilli pepper, in Assamese, that has been grown for hundreds of years in India, has been field and heat tested by the Chile Pepper Institute.  The heat tests record the chilli at a staggering, lip numbing, mind blowing 1,001,304 Scoville Heat Units by the Chile pepper Institute and 1,041,427 by Frontal Agritech the famous Assamese Chilli Growers. That's a massive 10% hotter than a Naga.  The Dorset Naga pepper was measured at 923,000 Scoville Heat Units.  But don't take our word for it, you now have a chance to buy the Naga Morich and Bhut Jolokia seeds for a limited time in limited amounts.  We have a number of heat and germination tested seeds.

http://www.chileseeds.co.uk/

Thanks Bart, quite informative.

CP

No probs and thank you Cory.  I do have to be careful because I use at least three different approaches when cooking food for the business and for home meals.  So I really do appreciate the help and corrections you give to others and me.  I see you and Darth and the other Forum gurus as being my Dopplegangers, because you are doing the home approach to the BIR cooking and pulling this lot of information together to make it meaningful.

Thanks CP

Ok I think I have spotted the problems here.  Raw ground spices do not need to be flash fried and you should not do this really unless you really are experienced; they will burn very rapidly.  Frying onions and adding spices is the traditional way of cooking not really suited as a Bir method.  You will find many approaches here in this Forum and there is nothing wrong with them just different

1. I dont use onions at the start if I am using a base, as they are already in there.  However I may add onions in one form or another at a later stage depending upon the recipe requirements.

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2. Fry the meat briefly  (with tomato base marinasde) first
3. Then add the base in one go and heat quickly to bubbling and oil separation
4. Add spices and reduce heat to medium.
5. Now stir and fuse the mix, but remember to press scrape and stir all the time

Dont worry you will get there, we all made and make mistakes; in a while you will master the techniques and then you will be doing your own experiments.  Make sure you read the advice on spices and cooking in the hints and tips as there are a lot of good contributions there.

CP

I have tried and had some good results as you have with the high-heat dishes, but then we are not really interested in subtle flavours are we : ;D. 

I find that they do not help in milder dishes because the vinegar & other additives seem to accentuate the flavour of the chillis too much.  If you really want an explosive mix get some fresh mega chillis, like Naga, Scotch Bonnet, or Birds Eye, pulp with a little black pepper, then mix with Mustard Oil (by hand) until you get a smoth but not runny paste.  Then freeze the mix in an ice cube tray and use as required.  the secret is not to defrost the cube(s) just add it frozen so that the gases and oils stay in the curry.  The next stage is make sure you have some pre-frozen ice packs in the freezer, and the following morning arrange them around the loo seat and have one spare in a plastic disposable bag.  the rest is up to you and your imagination.  Take care is this is my dark secret  ;D ;D

CP

Your not suggesting we post an Alley Cat Chicken Vindaloo recipe on the Forum are you Stew :

Nice one Ashes ROLF or what ;D

Welcome welshknuckles, to this great Forum.  Take time to search for what you want as it has probably already been posted here somewhere and debated by this great bunch chilli, sorry curry heads.

CP

I heard curry starts to disintigrate when it exceeds Mach 2  ;D ;D

Nah, he is around.  Just working for a living and finally catching up with his DIY :  I think he got some emulsion on his light sabre which has screwed things up a bit, and Mrs DP didn't like the colour he used when painting their new sitting room on the Dark Star. :-[  So he has to do it again as the Emperor insists that she is not upset over Christmas. ;D ;D

CP