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Next hottest curry after madras?
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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Go for a Chicken phaal
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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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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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I just like hot/spicy food.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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why would a curry house not serve you a vindaloo
do you look like you wouldn't be able to take it ? ![]()
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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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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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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! 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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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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I used to love curries but they give me the Brad Pitts now.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Vesta beef washed down with a few pints of Skol.
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