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Old 20-03-2013, 14:41
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I went out for a curry last night with my family and ordered my now usual vegetable madras. It's starting to taste pretty mild to me now and I think i'm ready to take the next step.

I love spicy food and it's on my bucket list to try a vindaloo (then maybe a phall depending on how I get on with vindaloo) but when I tried to order one from my local curry house they refused to make me one even though it's on the menu as they said it's not very good for the health and that there is a big jump in terms of hotness from the madras to the vindaloo.

So is there a curry that bridges the gap between madras and vindaloo?
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Old 20-03-2013, 14:51
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Go for a Chicken phaal
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Old 20-03-2013, 14:51
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No idea but it's pointless aiming to graduate to phal other than as a tick-box exercise. I generally love heat but you simply can't taste the food through the burning. Trust me, I tried it. Once.
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Old 20-03-2013, 14:52
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So you eat curries just for the heat?

I'd rather eat curries for the flavour in them, such as jalfrezi having peppers in etc. But each to their own i guess.

If you want heat why dont you just eat a chilli?
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Old 20-03-2013, 14:54
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I just like hot/spicy food.
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Old 20-03-2013, 15:03
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It's Vindaloo after Madras, then Phal/Paal. The latter is so ridiculous they often don't put it on the menus. I've never known anywhere not do a Vindaloo. Just ask for an extra hot Madras, then, or find another place.
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Old 20-03-2013, 15:04
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Sometime i have a Madras and it seems very mild, then i get a Vindaloo and it blows my head off. If i get Vindaloo i usually get King Prawn but they are so flippin expensive.If you are still not happy with a Vindaloo try a Tindaloo before you get a Phal (i have never had a Phal and do not think i ever will either).
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Old 20-03-2013, 15:14
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Pretend to be someone else - in other words don't bang on about your bucket-list and your mission to ultimately make it to phal - ring up and order your vindaloo. If you find it's too hot, you'll know to stick to madras in the future. Simples.

They probably refused you as they'd noticed you sweating over a madras Lol.
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Old 20-03-2013, 15:24
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In my mind it's Jazfrezi > Madras > Vindaloo > Phaal

But it depends who makes it. The last beef madras I had tasted like a beef stew with a few indian spices. It didn't have much heat at all.


If you're going to a restaurant/takeaway then just ask them either what the next up the heat scale is or just to add more chillis to the madras
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Old 20-03-2013, 22:37
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What's the point in paying for quality meat then having the taste dominated by a hot curry sauce costing a pittance in comparison?

Hot spicy sauces should be reserved for cheap tasteless food.
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Old 20-03-2013, 22:40
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why would a curry house not serve you a vindaloo

do you look like you wouldn't be able to take it ?


buy a bottle of dave's insanity sauce, and add a bit yourself. I have never tried anything like it.



eg

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&k...l_8whf4qyrux_b

hell, there's some good ones on that link!
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Old 20-03-2013, 22:43
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why would a curry house not serve you a vindaloo

do you look like you wouldn't be able to take it ?
They're obviously concerned about their welfare.............but more likely they ran out of the relevant ingreidients.
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Old 21-03-2013, 12:04
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The last time I went to a curry house, the waiter said they would make any curry as hot or as mild as I liked. Just let them know when I order.
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Old 21-03-2013, 12:14
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What's the point in paying for quality meat then having the taste dominated by a hot curry sauce costing a pittance in comparison?

Hot spicy sauces should be reserved for cheap tasteless food.
Quite. Vindaloo sauce has been a good way for less reputable places to disguise poor quality produce for a long time. Strikes me as a complete waste of money, but each to their own.
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Old 21-03-2013, 12:22
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why would a curry house not serve you a vindaloo

do you look like you wouldn't be able to take it ?


buy a bottle of dave's insanity sauce, and add a bit yourself. I have never tried anything like it.



eg

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&k...l_8whf4qyrux_b

hell, there's some good ones on that link!
Dave's Insanity Sauce is nowt compared to these.
My mate is a chilli head so I bought them these for his birthday. He liked them
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NAGA-VIPER...p2047675.l2557

I also bought some Satan's Sh1t Paste and that was quite the experience also
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Old 21-03-2013, 12:36
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Quite. Vindaloo sauce has been a good way for less reputable places to disguise poor quality produce for a long time. Strikes me as a complete waste of money, but each to their own.
I'm a vegetarian so meat won't be an issue.
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Old 21-03-2013, 12:42
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I used to love curries but they give me the Brad Pitts now.
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Old 21-03-2013, 12:54
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Vindaloo or other hot curries should not be just for covering up bad produce. It depends where you go to get them.


A local restaurant we used to goto, whatever dish you asked for it came out the same. About 6 pieces of meat in a curry sauce/gravy. The only real difference was the colour and heat.

It was really lazy cookery.
There should be bast amounts of differences between the different dishes on the menu.


The best vindaloo i've had was cooked my me. I followed this recipe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/porkvindaloo_89999
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Old 21-03-2013, 13:04
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Dave's Insanity Sauce is nowt compared to these.
My mate is a chilli head so I bought them these for his birthday. He liked them
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NAGA-VIPER...p2047675.l2557

I also bought some Satan's Sh1t Paste and that was quite the experience also
I will have to get some. I loved it when Tesco used to stock Insanity sauce.

I find it the "you can't taste anything because it is to hot" argument amusing. Too hot for you maybe but when you are used to the heat there is no issue. My favourite food is chillies so I am pretty immune to heat now in most regular things - I find no heat in normal Tabaso for instance. However I would never order a Vindaloo or Phaal. I just order whatever curry I want and ask them to make it extra hot - phaal hot. I enjoy all the different flavours in curries and can't imagine contantly ordering the same thing. My advice is just ask the waiter for something a bit hotter than a Madras and see what they bring. Well actually my advice is to ask for a curry that is Vindaloo hot and just eat it, enjoy the pain and don't worry you will soon get used to it.
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Old 21-03-2013, 14:45
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I think the madras is getting to you. I've never heard of a takeaway not serving a dish unless they are out of ingredients.
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Old 21-03-2013, 15:12
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Balti is about the hottest Curry i can take, don't like hotter ones than that, i like to taste the meat in it. I'm doing a Chicken Rogan Josh for my tea using the Patak's sauces, just adding that to some Chicken i've got with Pilau Rice & Nan bread.
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Old 21-03-2013, 17:40
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In my mind it's Jazfrezi > Madras > Vindaloo > Phaal

But it depends who makes it. The last beef madras I had tasted like a beef stew with a few indian spices. It didn't have much heat at all.


If you're going to a restaurant/takeaway then just ask them either what the next up the heat scale is or just to add more chillis to the madras
Pathia before Madras....
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Old 21-03-2013, 17:59
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I'm sure that there are many in each level. They are just what I think of my regulars, not that phaal is a regular.
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Old 21-03-2013, 18:00
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A proper vindaloo is delicious, sweet, tangy and rich with a hint of heat. Nothing like the shit that gets served over here that people keep shovelling down their throats in complete ignorance.
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Old 21-03-2013, 18:06
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Vesta beef washed down with a few pints of Skol.
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