Hot (Spicy) Food - Clubhouse

Xerxes

18/09/2002 at 15:12

Using Curry and Chilli as a "cure" for as cold has been recommended by our very own v-rap, which got me thinking about hot food. I like hot food and have eaten pretty hot stuff, but I would definitely say Tabasco is "hot" and Encona West Indian Pepper sauce is "very hot".

I just found the following site:

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gcaselton/chile/sauce.html

where both of the above sauces are rated as 3 or 4 out of ten for hotness.

Has any one tried hotter ones than these?

BTW my sister's former husband was scottish and once I misheard "Scotch Bonnet Peppers" as "Scotch Bollock Peppers" - made for an interesting conversation thereafter.

mercury

18/09/2002 at 15:27

Dont know about the rating but I once was lucky enough to have curry made for me by someone who'd spent 10 years in Oman

Pretty sure chillies were in there somewhere

Don Minquez

18/09/2002 at 15:29

I HATE the Encona pepper sauce it tastes gross! the sweet chilli one is good though

you don't know what spicy is until you've wasted your dosh on a phal

Xerxes

18/09/2002 at 15:31

I have actually eaten phals, but my success rate is at ca. 50%. As I mentioned elsewhere, they are very variable, ranging from about vindaloo (and so manageable) through to "ignite your pants" level.

I do like other curries also.

Velociraptor

18/09/2002 at 15:35

I made a veggie chilli with Scotch bonnet peppers once. They looked so round and innocent that I used 4 peppers for one potful. Mr V-rap and I got through about a litre of yogurt as dipping sauce for one plateful, and I didn't keep the leftovers for breakfast.

Xerxes

18/09/2002 at 15:37

I once made a spag bol and added a few wrinkled chillies I found in the back of the fridge. I barely finished mine, my wife barely finished a spoonful and had something else.

Deceptive little blighters.

Don Minquez

18/09/2002 at 16:05

The dried chillis you get from markets (or in Tooting's case- any shop in Tooting) are evil. As soon as you cook the little buggers they spring back to life!

Nick.M

18/09/2002 at 16:47

There is a Thai Cafe in Isleworth that makes wonderful stir-fries and you can have some of their homemade chilli dressing to give them some Zing and that stuff makes tabasco as spicy as ketchup but I have some really hot gear at home, I can't remember its name but I'll let you know.

Doobs

18/09/2002 at 17:10

I'm pretty well trained. My Dad (who's parents lived in Malaysia for a while) used to make a malaysian chilli paste which I used to eat on toast when I was younger. Bit hotter than marmite!

Doobs

18/09/2002 at 17:15

p.s. You're being very food related today Tim - not taking enough time out of ironing to eat??

Hildegard

18/09/2002 at 17:29

Ah, the scotch bonnet pepper. I cooked with one of those, many moons ago. Can't remember the outcome, so it must not have been too dire.

I love making hot curries, but my lack of a food processor in order to make the spice paste doesn't do me any favours.

And those dried red peppers - they are Kashmiri chillies, and are meant to be hot! A recipe for a vindaloo that serves four requires 20 of them. Haven't tried to make that one yet though.

patrick

18/09/2002 at 18:13

just be careful if doing a hilly run the next day.even though the curry from the night before might make your exhaust burn white it could lead to an embarassing sitaution if you pound the downhills.i once had a strong curry then ran a hilly half the next day.had to go for a few unscheduled stops.ironically the race was in chatsworth,an indian area in south africa.

Dragon Breath

18/09/2002 at 19:28

Scotch bonnets! Once bought them to make a chilli for me and the mrs thinking that they would probably be quite mild due to the shape. Used a whole pack of six, ate the chilli and suffered great pain the following day, starting at something like 3a.m. This was about five years ago and I am wincing now as I remember the awful outcome.

Xerxes

18/09/2002 at 20:56

Very foody today - yes true. Don't know why, I just find that when I have a cold I get hungry. In fact I had an unscheduled apple danish thingy for tea this afternoon.

V-rap, you'll be glad to know I made a stonking chilli this evening, and so am expecting to be able to run "like the wind" tomorrow.

Legless

18/09/2002 at 21:12

Curries and Chillies for me can only be made one way-known as arse burner in our parts.
Last nights curry was a balti chicken jalfezi, with extra garlic and double extra chillies(about 20 on one plate.
the other 5 people in the group a;; had a mouthful and exploded

Dalya

18/09/2002 at 21:33

We North Americans love hot and spicy food with a Mexican slant: e.g. Chillis Rellenos

Take v. hot long green chilli

slit, and fill with Monterey Jack cheese

Cover all with light egg white batter

Fry.

Serve with hot salsa and sour cream - and a beer.

NOT for those on diets!

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