BS: World's Hottest Curry

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 29 Apr 05 - 12:49 PM

That's true about building up a tolerance. We had a guest who said she loved a good hot curry but we had moved far beyond her tolerance by that point. Then after we got 'curried out' we left off eating Indian foods for about a year. Going back to the same recipe was a bit of a shock.

I hope 'phal' isn't an abbreviation ...

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Apr 05 - 05:15 AM

hot and spicy foods are great for you! it's just like anything, u build up a tolerance level to it, and whereas a korma is too hot for someone who's never eaten spicy food before, a phal is just right for me!

anyway there was an interesting statistic regarding hot and spicy foods - in leicester, where 20% of the population is asian and from the indian subcontinent, only 5% of people in hospital suffering from colonic cancers etc were of asian origin.

also the incidence of stomach / bowel cancers and diseases in asia (especially countries associated with hot foods, e.g. thailand, bangladesh, india etc.) are much lower than the world average.

there's been some scientific research to suggest that consuming capiscum (the stuff that makes chillies hot) has certain anti-carcinogenic properties!

i'm gonna carry on eating my vindaloos phals and tindaloos!

but only once a week as so not to risk getting a stomach ulcer! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: NH Dave
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 11:49 PM

Most Oriental restaurant suppliers have tins of the various Thai Curry pastes, Red, Yellow, Green, and Masaman. You can make up a cury using the normal ingredients, meat, veggies, coconut milk, and then add enough of the ground curry paste to meet your particular style or Scovil number of curry. All of the Thai restaurants I've been in here in the states tend to cut the *HOT* waaay down in curries served to those just came in off the street, but they will make your curry as hot as you wish, once you let them know that their usual curries are too tame for your taste.

I know that the stuff they serve over here is much cooler than what I ate in Thailand, and it took me a while to get used to what we ate over there. During this same period, I had a chance to get down to Singapore, and went on a bar grawl with my Kiwi friends. Their havit is to get almost too drunk to stand, stop off at the nearest curry cart, oder some of the hottest stuff on the menu, and when they can taste it, they figure they're set to hit a few more bars.

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 11:27 PM

I never saw the point of seeing 'how' hot it could be made. When tangy & spicy reach the point of pain and can cause bodily injury, why do people go out of their way to torture themselves? I love hot sauce as long as **flavor** is the primary ingredient and I don't have to suffer for a couple days afterward..."arrrrggghhhhh"

I suppose it is related to the desire to drink stuff that is over 180 proof alcohol or climb a mountian until it is 40 below zero and almost impossible to breathe.

I guess I'm just a tenderfoot....*grin*

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 05:06 PM

It's pretty easy to make the World's Hottest. Just make up the sauce part as hot as you can, then FREEZE it. Thaw it for use, then NUKE it in the microwave or on the stovetop. These heat extremes make the chilis rock! What you get will be MUCH hotter than what you began with.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 05:02 PM

if I got you drunk enough, *I* might get to choose where to put it...and the text to go with it!..might be worth the expense!

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 03:28 PM

You might have to get me really drunk to find out Bill!

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 03:26 PM

better? If it relates mostly to chili, it's limited.

(where you gonna PUT that tattoo?...*grin*)

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 03:23 PM

A Better Scoville Scale



I might get this as a tattoo...

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 03:07 PM

to read more on the Tezpur pepper..etc..

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 03:03 PM

the measurement scale

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 01:50 PM

Theres an acount of a poisonously hot curry in Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers. the phrase which sticks with me, "my anus squirted litres."


Hottest one I ever had was in Bradford. Nic Toczek, poet and journalist was taking me round his town, and I was paying for the meal. Nic took me to this place that had bought some advertising in one of his fanzines. the place was suspiciously empty.
Try to imagine an oxo cube dropped in nitric acid. its that moment when you suddenly realise what it will be like when you've lost all your teeth, and possibly the roof of your mouth and almost certainly some internal organs.

finish it....you've got to be joking.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Apr 05 - 01:09 PM

Phal is nothing.

Tindaloo (yes that's not vindaloo but tindallo with a 't') is the hottest yet!

a restaurant in hammersmith, london, serves it. i ordered phal about 10 times before the waiter told me that there's one that's hotter than a phal.

i have mine with extra chopped chilli's on the side that were soaked in vindaloo sauce.

heavyweight!

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 01:30 PM

No-Brainer Curry:

A cooked chicken, cut up
A tin coconut milk (about 350 Ml or half-pint)
A tin tomatoes
An onion, sliced
A naffing big tablespoon of curry powder.

Simmer together half an hour. Pour it over boiled basmati rice.

Serve with chutney of your choice (my fave is Hoe's - honest) Sop it up with Nan.

Drink beer ... mmmmmm ... beer ...

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Davetnova
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:50 AM

It's cold up here. Give us a few recipes.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: GUEST,james
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 06:39 AM

i madea curry yesterday.

used 16 red chilles and 5 tbs of chilly poweder and 1 tsof dried chillys. tasted abitandit was umwell kinda hot

i used the main ingredents for a vindalloo but just added chillys and stuff lol.

my m8 couldnt eat it but today i dont feel well.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Arnie
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 11:35 AM

Last time I ate a phall, the waiter told me that he had some sauce in the kitchen that was even hotter, and would i care to try it? like a fool I agreed, poured the whole bowlful over my phall and boy was it hot! Still don't know what it was made of but I had to ask for the fire extinguisher with my bill. Waiter very impressed, me very sore next day......

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: sue exhull
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 05:32 PM

OHHH hotter than phall??? I tried one when I still lived in Hull, I did manage three quarters of it but had to give up, Id love to try the rapali (I think) :)

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From:
Date: 27 Jan 05 - 04:02 PM

i've had phall currys but the rapali in big market takes the phall to extreames.... its on big market in newcasle i had a dr's note with irratable bowel syndrom... like f..k no wonder bears wipe arses on trees after a full 4 pak ov CHARMAINloo roll

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: GUEST,Atwoke
Date: 24 Jan 05 - 11:07 AM

Take it from a local: Rupali on the Bigg Market does have a Curry Hell on the menu and years ago it was certified as The Hottest Curry in the World. I'm reasonably sure the 'World' should read 'UK', but it is true that 10 years ago, if you finished your Curry Hell, you used to get a SECOND curry for free. And yes, all the kitchen staff used to come out to have a look at the fool who ordered it!

A

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: C-flat
Date: 17 Jan 05 - 12:25 PM

Rupalis' attracts the occassional minor celebrity to the Bigg Market as the reputation of his "Worlds' Hottest Curry" challenge grows.
One restaurant owner told me, in confidence, that they reserve the very hottest dishes (Phall, etc,) for the loud-mouthed drunks who stagger in just before closing demanding to be fed.

C-flat.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 17 Jan 05 - 11:35 AM

I usually have a Quarterly trip to Haq's of Listerhills and stock up in bulk.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Jan 05 - 07:28 AM

Geoff, I get my ingredients from the Halal supermarket on Woodhead Road in Bradford, the real things and less than half

the price of crap ingredients from tesco or sainsburys.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 17 Jan 05 - 06:12 AM

Q - Sharwoods are a firm who sell small jars of dried herbs and spices. When it comes to flavourings for curries they are working on an agenda for people who do not eat real curries.
Do not judge a British curry by a jar of Sharwoods flavouring.
Quack!!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Jan 05 - 03:39 PM

On my grocery's shelves, I found an English curry powder, Sharwood's, labeled "Hot," with the royal seal and "By appointment to H. M. the Queen." The Queen must be a wimp.
Tried it in lamb curry I made yesterday and had to keep adding in order to bring the curry up to tingle level. Finally added some pure hot chili powder. I have to go back to mixing my own from the 'makins' at an Indian store (It should be hot, but not to the point of covering up the taste of the curry ingredients, and not so mild that one might as well open a can of Campbell's lamb (mutton) and rice).

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 16 Jan 05 - 02:32 PM

If you ever get to Luton, Beds. Seak out Doog Moody at Greenbank Music Village High Town, get invited to one of his do's and ask for his world famous curry. I tryed some once. One mouth full, and I burst into tears on the spot. Great but never again.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: GUEST,smiler
Date: 16 Jan 05 - 02:15 PM

Apparently in Indian restaurants in the UK, they all have a curry too hot to put on the menu, and you have to order it discretely.
This is the one hotter than phaal

I ordered one, and when it was served, I noticed several staff peering through the Kitchen window at me. I didn't manage to finish it.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 15 Jan 05 - 03:27 PM

Teresa, the word (spelling) you want is "habanero", which is acknowledged by all the experts to be the hottest pepper there is.

Incidentally, "habanero" would be a man (well, a person) from Havana.

You wouldn't catch ME eating a Habaneroburger!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Teresa
Date: 15 Jan 05 - 09:51 AM

I've never had anything in the U.S. that approached what I had at a restaurant in Victoria
, BC as the #5 curry on a scale of 10.

I wonder sometimes if the employees of the restaurants are laughing up their sleeves, knowing what they serve is not nearly as hot as what they'd normally eat! :D

Ok, not curry, but in the San francisco Bay Area, I went to a bar that served a "havanero (SP?) burger". (I'm trying to spell the cuban pepper.) anyway, I had to sign a release form, and I got a certificate of accomplishment. Well, twenty-four hours later, I soon found out why.

It was actually quite flavorful, which is something I can't normally say for "hot" foods.
Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: mack/misophist
Date: 15 Jan 05 - 02:45 AM

Old Bengali saying:

It does not bring tears to the eyes? It cannot be curry!

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jan 05 - 08:51 PM

I didn't say it was the hottest. I will say, however, that it's the hottest I ever have any ambition to try!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: GUEST,matthew dawes
Date: 14 Jan 05 - 02:36 PM

Why are tou all talking about phall as the hottest indian curry . It`s not and never has been indian. And the rupali restaraunt in newcastle serves up curry hell. its not a phall, its something he made up himself. I know cause ive eaten it and ordered another. Ive worn the special robes he has out the back for the chosen few. i`ve had my picture taken and iv`e got the certificate so don`t go on about phall as the hottest. its just an appetizer.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 01 Jan 05 - 05:26 PM

Couple of you mentioned phall above.

A few years ago I went to an Indian restaurant. I had never heard of phall before, and when I saw they had chicken phall, lamb phall, and tofu phall. I ordered chicken phal, just to complete my education.

It did! Wow! But I generally like hot food, and I wasn't about to let myself be vanquished. I ate it all.

When the Indian waiter came with the bill, he told me, "Sir, I have GREAT respect for you! I couldn't eat that!"

My education now having been completed, I will never order phall again!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: LilyFestre
Date: 01 Jan 05 - 04:23 PM

DANG! Ya'll are talkin' about spices! I was thinkin' more along the lines of TIM CURRY of RHPS fame!!!!

HOW TO DO THE TIME WARP


http://www.sweet-transvestites.com/RHPS/rhs.htm

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: GUEST,Sajay McFarley
Date: 01 Jan 05 - 03:19 PM

I once ate a pall it was exceedingly better than mr kiplings traditional pies he keeps muttering about!

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 01:59 PM

I ate a Meat Phal once, and found it 'just hot', i.e. no flavour just heat so didn't try it again. As Surge0n says nobody orders it twice, but I don't think it's always because of the 'hotness'
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: DMcG
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 12:56 PM

I used to work for an organisation called FARL, and the local curry house spelt 'phall' curries as 'farl'. It was an oft-threatened (but as far as I am aware never executed) joke to take newcomers for the curry "named after us."

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: GUEST,Scoville on Dad's computer
Date: 18 Dec 04 - 12:36 PM

My brother clearly needs to move to the UK. He's a vindaloo freak (learned it from Red Dwarf) and he's not happy unless he's doubled over in agony at the table.

I personally like "spicy" but I don't like to be in lasting pain after a meal.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 01:37 PM

The Beast of Farlington wrote This is almost certainly a folk-tale. You can tell because they usually emanate from a friend of a friend - bit like the Newcastle one.

What are you suggesting here, Beast? PM me for the bloke's phone number so you can verify its veracity. Of course he could be lying, but I have photographic evidence. Of course that could be faked ...

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 11:02 AM

You should try some of my chili

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Flash Company
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 10:31 AM

Ther is a Thai Restaurant by one of the canals in Amsterdam that serves a Rice-table that starts at hot and goes all the way to 'Christ, what was that!'

FC

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 08:03 AM

I once made a curry hotter than Phall I called it Kinnell which just what everyone described it as when they tasted it

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: The Beast of Farlington
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 07:27 AM

The legendary Palace Curry House in Manchester had three grades of curry sauce. This is true - I once went there and tried the 'mildest' one.

Hot (extremely hot)

Suicide (you'll want to after you have eaten it)

Kamikaze (you're death rattle will sound like you are speaking Japanese)

It was served in a polysterene cup to pour over you plate of chicken and rice (probably so you could change your mind if you wanted to)

Legend has it that a student bet another that he couldn't drink the Kamikaze down in one. He did, but ended up in intensive care.

This is almost certainly a folk-tale. You can tell because they usually emanate from a friend of a friend - bit like the Newcastle one.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: HuwG
Date: 17 Dec 04 - 07:14 AM

Old Sheffield joke I remember:


"Has the bottom fallen out of your world ? Try one of our curries, and have the world fall out of your bottom."

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 12:14 PM

Thai Cold Curry Soup - cleared my sinuses and numbed my tastebuds for days afterwoods but it was good. No other "unpleasant" side effects although I have a constitution of iron which may explain that.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: GUEST,Mingulay
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:39 AM

I hear that Sri Lankan curries have severe physiological effects on certain parts of the body.

Someone just said rectum. Well, not quite, but it didn't do them a lot of good (old English joke).

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:25 AM

I work for an indian take away in Hull, we have Chicken Phall on the menu, hottest indian curry, and 5 times hotter than a vindaloo.
I've never known anyone order it twice!

Subject: RE: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:22 AM

This probably belongs in the Moment of Clarity thread.

Subject: BS: World's Hottest Curry
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 16 Dec 04 - 11:17 AM

Thought I'd share this just-arrived mail from my pal in Newcastle:

Lads,

One of blokes in our place, (Davie Palmer) , went on a Christmas beano yesterday afternoon - went to the Bigg Market for the "worlds hottest curry" - if you can eat it you get it for nowt - Curry Hell is the title - anyway he managed it as you can see [there was a jpeg attached] - about an hour and a half later he collapsed with acute stomach pains in the Toon and was rushed in a Taxi to A&E at the General. Worst experience of his life he reckons......today he is listening to that Johnny Cash standard "Ring of Fire".

Cheers