The world's hottest chili...

puchoo

Im sure we will !! incidentally, whats your exact location in India...assuming its not delhi otherwise we would have seen you at the meetup...

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brishti

that aint a chilli question - so you wont get an answer
dd ie dilliwalla is from dilli - just how many im'ers have ever seen him???

puchoo - seriously, we're OT OT OT - thisatime i'm over and out.



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Nick-H

I don't like chilli

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Imagine making a bajji out of the Bhut Jolokia, man i can already feel the smoke coming out of my ears!!!

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AvidTrekker

I send some ten packets of "Pravin Kolhapuri Thechaa" to my cousin in California every six months. And some two or three kilos of "Mirchi pieces marinated in Mustard paste" (Marathi style) from my local Masala shop.

The Mirchi kaa pickle is highly recommended. Although in the coming summer months, I will have to forgo Thechaa and Mirchi.

Do you know of a better Thechaa? Which one do you eat? Branded? or village product home made types?

Thanks, enjoyed the Khotto (Idli steamed in jackfruit leaves). See the pics on the eat-up errr.. meetup thread.
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Cardamom

Oh my gosh, AvidTrekker - after I read your post I spent about 30 minutes on youtube watching all of these people eating whole bhut jholokia. Some of them are pretty traumatic

I'm such a sissy, I can hardly eat a curd chilly without doing a funny dance of pain in my chair. Maybe IM'ers can have some sort of chilli eating competition to see who reacts in the most bizarre way!

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Nick-H

I stay away from food that hurts.

But I bit on a green chilli in one of my wife's curries once (we'd made and taken it to a friend's house in England) and I really didn't know what had hit me! It felt like someone had punched me hard in the mouth. I didn't identify it as chilli taste, or chilli hot, just as some sort of asault, like biting on a mouthful of wasps.

I guess I danced about a bit!

snonymous

My Khasi [from Meghalaya] colleagues where I used to work, often shared pickles made out of these round 'grenades'. I presume it to be the jolokhia, my colleagues simply called them Naga chillies. Merely the oil from the pickle was enough ! It went astoundingly well with plain steamed rice.

brishti

arre - sounds like heaven
if you EVER locate them pickles here in BOM please please pleeease post it here snonymous
and thank you for locating this thread - for the life of me, i tried this morning - sheesh

avid: i have no particular brand of thechaa - just ate what i was given
now, since i'm in thechaa county - will buy the pravin kolhapuri brand. vy vy forgo chilli in summer?
there is this chilli vegetable - only green chillies in it - and you eat it with thepla -




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brownboy66

now that you come to mention it....hmmmmm

Nick-H

Brishti; isn't there a big danger that, if you eat stuff like that and then light up, you might explode?

I'm worried now ...

brishti

nick san - you've dont it again!!! good un


one numbers chilli saying - fight fire with fire



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ananda2193

Last month I was in Washington D.C. and visited the Botanical Gardens there. Found some really small plant's with really small red chilis on them. The chilis were about the size of a fingernail. As I'm a chili freak, I snatched a handfull when no one was looking. Man, were they hot. Definitely the hottest I've had. Don't remember what the plaque said as to their scientific name, but maybe it's the same chili.

brishti

'nuther chilli saying ananda: the smaller the chilli - the hotter they are

i know what you're talking about - you get them here too at times.
dont think they're the NE one though - them naga chillies sure look bigger.


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snonymous

If you want good quality Thecha, visit any handicrafts type exhibition, the type that usually takes place every now and then [Reclamation grounds in Mumbai for example]. There are always stalls selling home made "thecha". You will also get plenty of it in Lalbagh and Dadar / Parel areas of Mumbai. It is not very hot though usually. The ones mixed with roasted garlic and peanuts are particularly delicious. There is a vada pao vendor [from Kerala of all places] on NH3 just after Shahapur who offers the most brilliant thecha with his vada pao. Also had excellent quality thecha with the vada pao at Vajreshwari.

The green chilli 'thing' that comes with thepla is quite tasteless. Try it, you will find out for yourself. Ditto for the green chilli 'thing' that comes with fafda and other Gujarati snacks.

My previous Marathi maidservant would make a yummy chutney by very coarsely pounding green chillies with garlic, tamarind and adding a dash of rock salt. Simply divine and went with everything. Try it. Its really out of this world and so simple to make.