Would You Try The World's Hottest Curry?

[naomi24]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/worlds-hottest-curry-ian-rothwell_n_2425002.html

[leahbee]

No, never had a curry and never will. The smell of them puts me off.

[tiggerblue10]

About 20 years ago I went for a meal at my work friends house and she made traditional South Indian food. I was tucking into one of the dishes and ended up with some birds eye seeds in my mouth. I thought I was going to pass out. Anyway, she gave me some gulabjumans which are syrupy dough like sweets and I recovered. Since then I have learn't that sweet things can help in counteracting chilli heat.

[ummmm]

Leah...never ever?

Some curries are awesome.

[DTCwordfan]

I'm weird about curries - I'm not a huge Indian fan but when it is authentic and you can taste the different dishes it's lovely - one of my fav London restaurants has been the Tamarind (Moghul cooking) for that very reason of taste and not that cloy goo powdered curry flavour that pervades most Anglo-Indian cooking.

I'm not a fan of Thai or Viet or Malaysian - I think that's the fish paste they frequently use.

I adore Szechuan though and used to love going up to Chengdu or Chonqing. Also in HK (Wanchai) there was a fab Szechuan restaurant, Shanghai too, staffed with Szechuanese chefs and staff. The mouth would be on fire to such a level that it was enjoyable and a range of different tastes comes barrelling through.

I guess it's the gastronomic equivalent of the old sex thing as to BDSM - "at some point, pain can turn to pleasure."

[ummmm]

When I was in Thailand our Thai host cooked us dinner. He made the food purposely mild for our western taste. My OH had a taste of our hosts food. Very very funny, he could hardly breath.

[seadogg]

When I first entered a lascar (Indian) seaman's cookhouse on the after deck it turned my stomach but they patiently explained how they cooked and have loved the stuff ever since.

[ummmm]

Even the dogs in Thailand lap up spicy food.

[naomi24]

Sri Lankan curry is delicious - a strange cross between Thai and Indian.

[pixie373]

No. I'm a complete wimp with hot food. I don't like eating something that's painful. I have started eating mild curries in the last year or so.
But why, when you tell people you don't like curry, do they either say "have you tried it?" or tell you to eat "korma" ??

[jno]

food is for sustenance; cooking is to make it more palatable, as eating raw dinosaur off the bone takes a lot of chewing. But ploughing through the hottest curry or the biggest burger or the longest noodle is just for people who want to get into the Guinness book of records. Eating isn't a challenge.

[DTCwordfan]

My, I have never tried dinosaur, raw, cooked or curried......

[ummmm]

Never tried Sri Lankan...(off to google)

[jno]

buy a Tesco burger, dtc, you never know.

[237SJ]

I love curry and am addicted to chilli but I was never impressed with the food in Sri Lanka. I was disappointed as I was looking forward to some lovely nosh. I wouldn`t try the world`s hottest curry as I don`t see the point - men like eating hot curry as to show their bravado IMO

[tiggerblue10]

I'm addicted to Thai Green curry. I've always got a jar of green curry paste and fish sauce in the fridge and tins of coconut milk and fragrant rice in the cupboard.

[China Doll]

I would put my fork/spoon in just to try a drop of sauce yes... but I wouldn't want to eat the whole thing! Unfortunately I'm one of those people that would try a tiny a bit 'just to see'... I think on the whole I'd prefer a nice lamb tikka jalfrezi though.

I do have a friend who I reckon would have a full on crack at it thought, she puts chilli sauce on her fried breakfast!

[Old_Geezer]

It is good to try a hot curry at some point in your life, even if just to realise as the heat increases the taste fades into the background, and thus the meal less enjoyable. I could take/enjoy them hotter when I was younger. These days a Madras is more than hot enough for me in most Indian restaurants. Usually I opt for less hot than that.

[BlueToffee]

We went to stop with some friends one weekend, sitting down for dinner the male said, "We'll, if you don't like curry you'll be going hungry"

We went hungry as neither Mrs BT nor I can stand the stuff.

Oh, yes I have tried it, but hated it!

[Traci66]

I love spicy food and would dip the sauce to try it, but hot food has to have taste and if its too hot there's no taste. When we were in Thailand one time I wasn't really that hungry and didn't fancy a cooked meal so ordered a Thai beef salad, probably the hottest thing I ate whilst we were there.

[albaqwerty]

No thank you.
A korma is the hottest thing I can manage these days.

I do miss my mum's home made curry, I loved the chutney.