Heh yeah I like a good hot flavour as well but every so often I just get this odd craving for something stupidly hot for the sensation not the flavour ;)

I pity your @rse... you maniac...!

:shock: :shock: :shock:

Hottest food I can eat is medium currys or tikka's. Anything hotter I don't see the point as you don't taste it all you get is the burning. I actually enjoy my food and the flavours.

Maybe this should be in interesting fact of the day, but chillies are in the same plant family as deadly nightshade. Though you would have to drink about 1.8 litres of Tabasco sauce for it to be fatal. :shock:

pschocannon - you know its going to be hotter on the way out so I feel very sorry for you but nice one :wink:

I find even with the hottest food, if well prepared and cooked, you can still taste the differrent flavours but I doubt this stuff is really ideal for cooking

I didn't know that :)

@ Jake
My @rse should be fine, I lived with a Kashmiri Girl for a year and a bit and I got used to it after the first couple months of "Oh my god please just kill me" after effects of her cooking :)

@Balky
I'll soon find out, It does smell very flavoursome its just catch 22 in that you have to use enough to get the flavour but then you have to dilute it so you have to use more so you have to dilute it so you......get the idea =p

I like a good hot curry, and try to use fresh chillies rather than powders.

When I lived in the states they used to grow little orange bell shaped ones call habaneros (not sure if that spelling's right). Jeeez they were hot - got a tiny fragment on my finger while chopping one for a curry and wiped the corner of my eye without knowing it was there. Felt like someone had squirted acid in my eye and it was hours before it stopped watering. Just as big an effect on the mouth !!

Wonder what the habanero rates on the geiger counter or whatever they use.

Oh and the Kashmiri stuff's wicked an all - I get Kashmiri Bazaar masala from the local indian grocery store and it's darned potent.

Keith

I Accidently ate some pepper spray but only a tiny amount ( got some on my fingers and thought it had dried, ate abag of crisps...it hadn't gone away :roll: ) My mouth felt like the the depths of hell in summer :shock: Boy is that stuff warm

chilli accidents.


Guys when using them to cook with, wash your hands before you go to the toilet and wash them again.

Yes I have suffered :oops: in that most unpleasant way

Habaneros rate at 200,000 - 300,000 Scoville Units :)

PsychoCannon

I think the Psycho in your forum name is very apt. I'm a total lightweight and I cant stand really hot curry. I cooked a Balti for Liz and I the other night and we both struggled to eat it as it was to hot :shock:

Respect is due