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A food dare - Satan's Ashes

Meet The Chili Pepper Company. They are in England and package various chili products including this one:
(sorry for poor image quality
vendor only had thumbnails available) Yes, you read it correctly -- Satan's Ashes and from their website:

Satan's Ashes
The Hottest Curry Dish In The World

A combination of exotic spices from around the world with a special blend of some of the hottest chillies there are. This is the first curry to be tested as the hottest in the world.

Satan's Ashes has a fantastic tongue burning heat that will make your tongue feel like it is melting!!!

Well, with a dare like that, some chicken curry was made (and eaten) by these guys:

THE DAY MY ARSE DIED
Yesterday I decided to make the world's hottest curry using a spice mix with the endearingly juvenile name Satan's Ashes.

Satan's Ashes are comprised of the usual things you might expect in a quality curry powder: Garam Masala, Cumin and so on but also the Dorset Naga chilli (880,000 on the Scoville scale), the Naga Morich (953,721 on the Scoville scale) and the infamous Bhut Jolokia which - at 1,001,304 Scoville units is the world's hottest chilli pepper. To put that into some kind of context, that makes the Bhut Jolokia over 100 times hotter than a Jalapeno, 20 times hotter than a Tobasco pepper and 3 times hotter than a Scotch Bonnet.

In India, Bhut Jolokia is smeared on fences to repel elephants. This noxious, possibly poisonous substance which even elephants have no truck with, was precisely what I intended to put in my mouth and eventually pass out of my arse.

Now before I proceed with a full pictorial account of the entire sorry affair I would like to establish my Scoville-endurance credentials somewhat. I'm no stranger to spicy foods, particularly curry. I don't find a Madras to be particularly spicy, I can handle a Vindaloo without too much difficulty and on one memorable occasion I ate a Chicken Phaal without having to go to the hospital afterwards.

Satan's Ashes are however a different matter...

The author documents the preparation of the curry and it's first taste test:

Here's the finished product served with a garlic and coriander naan and basmati rice. Note the tray which I nicked from McDonalds. You may at this point wish to assemble your taste-testers and hope that they're a little less disappointing than mine. My girlfriend (not pictured) tried two grains of rice with a little sauce and squealed in pain. My Dad managed one grain of rice with the lightest smear of sauce on it and immediately had to retire for an infusion of milk.

And most of the way through:

And that's me done. I've eaten the meat and the sauce but I just feel too sick and genuinely frightened to eat the last of the rice. At this point my eyes and nose are streaming and my hearing has partially gone. When something is so spicy that it deafens you, it's time to quit. But wait...

I wonder what Bruce Cameron would think... Posted by DaveH at March 17, 2010 7:46 PM