What's the spiciest thing you've ever eaten?
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mat205125 said:
Once suffered a bombay badboy potnoodle!
I was really disappointed by that, it wasn't even hot! I was hoping for something really spicy, and it didn't deliver at all.Raw chilli peppers are nice, I can't match Prof. Beard's feats but whole Indian green chillis are fun, and the basic green chillis (larger and cooler) go nicely sliced up and popped in a lunchtime sandwich.
At Uni one of the lads in my flat was from Pakistan and was always going on about the currys in Pakistan being "so hot you vill be crying when you eat them, but so good you keep eating". So one night we went to Rusholme's curry mile for a curry, Kamran asks the waiters for one of these currys then when it arrives sends it back for more spice.
When the final version arrived, the waiters actually stood around the table to watch him eat it and sure enough tears were running down his face. I tried a mouthful and thought 'hmm not too hot' so tried a second closely followed by a sprint to the toilets to throw up. Not sure what was in it but quite incredibly hot, and I can eat Vindaloo with the best of them
Ben
When the final version arrived, the waiters actually stood around the table to watch him eat it and sure enough tears were running down his face. I tried a mouthful and thought 'hmm not too hot' so tried a second closely followed by a sprint to the toilets to throw up. Not sure what was in it but quite incredibly hot, and I can eat Vindaloo with the best of them
Ben
Prof Beard said:
The heat-causing chemical in Chiles is NOT water soluble. It IS fat soluble, so drinking milk or eating yoghurt works, drinking water doesn't.
When you've had a mouthful of something which is causing you to die, and you have a glass of iced water on the table, you don't call the waiter over and ask "excuse me do you sell yoghurt, and if so how long before you can serve it?" What you actually do is get that water in your mouth within 3 seconds.Gorvid said:
Yup...
I like hot curries.
Had a lamb phall once.
me...... I now realise I don't like hot curries. I like wimpy Anglicised pretend curries that we THINK are hot........!
www.curryhell.com I like hot curries.
Had a lamb phall once.
me...... I now realise I don't like hot curries. I like wimpy Anglicised pretend curries that we THINK are hot........! As much as I dislike the inevitable bravado that seems linked to eating spicy food these days I've tried their worst and to say it's harsh is an understatement. Another chap I know starting getting cold sweats and his vision was affected after eating a morsel of one.
I do enjoy spicy food, but that's armageddon on a plate, not a hot curry.
Edited by Stu R on Friday 21st December 00:13
srebbe64 said:
Prof Beard said:
The heat-causing chemical in Chiles is NOT water soluble. It IS fat soluble, so drinking milk or eating yoghurt works, drinking water doesn't.
When you've had a mouthful of something which is causing you to die, and you have a glass of iced water on the table, you don't call the waiter over and ask "excuse me do you sell yoghurt, and if so how long before you can serve it?" What you actually do is get that water in your mouth within 3 seconds.And yes, chili is fat soluble, so don't drink water or booze to try and slake the pain.
I bought a mate some of this, because he likes hot stuff:
http://www.chilliworld.com/SP6.asp?p_id=101
119,700 scoville units.
You can add 1 drop to a full pan of chilli, and it will absolutely ruin you. To the point where it's not funny any more.
There are WAY worse as well. 1.5 million scoville stuff which carries proper health warnings.
Imagine getting a bit in your eye. Oh mama.
http://www.chilliworld.com/SP6.asp?p_id=101
119,700 scoville units.
You can add 1 drop to a full pan of chilli, and it will absolutely ruin you. To the point where it's not funny any more.
There are WAY worse as well. 1.5 million scoville stuff which carries proper health warnings.
Imagine getting a bit in your eye. Oh mama.
A man under my mum's care in hospital ate 8 raw chillis for a bet at a stag do. He came to their liver clinic with jaundiced skin,yellow eyes and pain in his side (which denoted a swollen liver). He got hepatitis from it! They put him on a high dose of steroids and I think he recovered...he must have been shitting through the eye of a needle.
Actually the hottest food I have ever had was a pizza strangely enough.
We used to have an indian takeaway who also made pizzas with nice chicken tikka and stuff on them. I was waiting for mine when the lad who served there was eating his own pizza for dinner, he offered me a bit to keep me going till I got mine. It was too hot (IE out of the oven hot) to eat so I had it as I drove home once it had cooled a bit. Christ on a bike, I have never tasted anything like it, I hate to think what they had put on it but the visible bits of chilli were the cooler bits. I got home and drank the best part of a bottle of milk (I don't normally drink milk at all!).
We used to have an indian takeaway who also made pizzas with nice chicken tikka and stuff on them. I was waiting for mine when the lad who served there was eating his own pizza for dinner, he offered me a bit to keep me going till I got mine. It was too hot (IE out of the oven hot) to eat so I had it as I drove home once it had cooled a bit. Christ on a bike, I have never tasted anything like it, I hate to think what they had put on it but the visible bits of chilli were the cooler bits. I got home and drank the best part of a bottle of milk (I don't normally drink milk at all!).
Many years ago we were in a curry house in Cheltenham. One of my mates would normally get through three vindaloos a week without any issues. We were asked if we wanted our meals extra hot for an extra 10p. I sensibly declined.
By the time the food was served it was after 11pm, so they were no longer serving beer. Shortly after my mate had his head in the fishtank!
Best 10p I've never spent.
By the time the food was served it was after 11pm, so they were no longer serving beer. Shortly after my mate had his head in the fishtank!
Best 10p I've never spent.
spikeyhead said:
Many years ago we were in a curry house in Cheltenham. One of my mates would normally get through three vindaloos a week without any issues. We were asked if we wanted our meals extra hot for an extra 10p. I sensibly declined.
By the time the food was served it was after 11pm, so they were no longer serving beer. Shortly after my mate had his head in the fishtank!
Best 10p I've never spent.
Wierd - the worst experience (and I now use Insanity Sauce as a soaking agent for my contact lenses) I've ever had was eating a Phall in Cheltenham. It was served black - Lord knows what they did to it - this was in the mid-nineties, and I reckon the sauce was a combination of tamarind, tarmac, and bleach. Never before, and never since, have I been obliged to leave the table and visit the bog eight times during the main course. I suspect the establishment concerned was an early AQT chemical weapons testing lab, with a sideline in poppadoms.By the time the food was served it was after 11pm, so they were no longer serving beer. Shortly after my mate had his head in the fishtank!
Best 10p I've never spent.
I used to eat far too hot stuff at university, to the point where we gave a bottle of Daves insanity sauce to the kebab van man so that my chinese housemate and I would have ready access to liquid fiery death on chips after a few lagers.
daves insanity on chips, as a condiment = dear god. Not something I plan to get back into.
the wr in the van ended up using most of it to get revenge on rugby boys asking for "a really hot kebab, go on, with your hottest sauce".
Oh how we would laugh at big blokes crying and reching in the gutter licking dirty puddles of water for a drink. the jessies.
/happy days....
daves insanity on chips, as a condiment = dear god. Not something I plan to get back into.
the w
r in the van ended up using most of it to get revenge on rugby boys asking for "a really hot kebab, go on, with your hottest sauce".Oh how we would laugh at big blokes crying and reching in the gutter licking dirty puddles of water for a drink. the jessies.
/happy days....
Edited by Wadeski on Friday 21st December 00:45
markmullen said:
Dave's insanity sauce, variously stated at 50k-80k scovilles (Tobasco sauce is 7-8k scovilles)
That's the kiddy. Never tasted anything quite so hot in all my life.It gave one of my friends a noseblead!
The label says it's also good "for removing driveway grease stains and stripping floorboardI think the label calls it "insanity Dave's ATOMIC Sauce"
Gorvid said:
Yup...
I like hot curries.
Had a lamb phall once. me...... I now realise I don't like hot curries. I like wimpy Anglicised pretend curries that we THINK are hot........!
I've travelled a little bit through India, and the only time I have had a 'hot' curry is when I have stayed in a 5* hotel that caters for Europeans. Every thing else, and believe me \I have tried to find that hot curry,has been very grey and so mild you could use it as sex lube I like hot curries.
Had a lamb phall once.
me...... I now realise I don't like hot curries. I like wimpy Anglicised pretend curries that we THINK are hot........! There's nothing hotter than the merciless peppers of Quetzlzacatenango grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum:
Although I haven't had one myself.
Dave's insanity sauce is supposed to be the inspiration for that Simpson's reference I think. Or is it the other way round?
The best I've managed is a meat phall which was spicey, to say the least.
I did once get caught going through security at an airport with a small anonymous can of pepper spray in my pocket which I had no idea was there until I went through the metal detector. I told them it was mouth freshener and then realised that was maybe not the best thing to say in case they asked me to prove it. I got away with it at the time but often wondered just what it would be like to spray that into my mouth. Mmmmmmmmm piquant....
Although I haven't had one myself.
Dave's insanity sauce is supposed to be the inspiration for that Simpson's reference I think. Or is it the other way round?
The best I've managed is a meat phall which was spicey, to say the least.
I did once get caught going through security at an airport with a small anonymous can of pepper spray in my pocket which I had no idea was there until I went through the metal detector. I told them it was mouth freshener and then realised that was maybe not the best thing to say in case they asked me to prove it. I got away with it at the time but often wondered just what it would be like to spray that into my mouth. Mmmmmmmmm piquant....
I've got a mate who just loves hot spicey food - not a bravado thing at all, but just really enjoys the kick - always has a phal, vindaloo or madras and will calmly munch his way through a curry that'll have me in pain after mearly a small taste.
Anyway, he claims to have ordered a phal from a takeaway in Wimbledon - he says it was so hot that it hurt to take a slash the next day - it had leached through into his bladder/urinary tract the next day. A first for my mega-hot food eating friend.
I go Jalfrezi before I start to get uncomfortable.
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