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2009-03-27, 00:50 | Link #2646 |
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Here's something weird. Spices, and when I mean spice, i mean those little spicy things we put on our chickens and tacos
When you eat them you get a burning sensation, with little to no taste. Yet we still eat them, and i've always wondered, why? Of course this may come down to personal taste, but can anyone give me a reasonable explanation.
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2009-03-27, 01:22 | Link #2647 | |
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There's also a lot more than just a burning sensation. With the right combination, you can actually get very unique flavors that don't always make your tongue feel as if it's on fire. At home, we often use a combination of *chile piquin, lemons, garlic and *consomate (among other things) to make a marvelous salsa for our chicken. *english fails me for this words.
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2009-03-27, 03:19 | Link #2648 |
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If all you taste is the burning of spices, it means someone screwed up the recipe. Spices are supposed to compliment and enhance the natural flavors of the dish, not overpower it with throat burns.
Of course, I know people who drink Tabasco straight from the bottle. That's a true lover of spice.
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2009-03-27, 05:15 | Link #2649 | ||
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I love peppers even have gotten my tolerance up to habanero levels, I mix my own sauces now because I can't find enough cheap habanero stuff. I use a big bottle of Tapatio Hot Sauce - Salsa Picante and either put a bottle of crushed red or a table spoon of cyan and 2 bottles dried and pureed Taxes Pete Tabasco peppers, with a dash of sugar for taste. Pureed tabasco peppers bring alot of bitter with them :P Quote:
Hell its so bad now I have to put cyan on everything just to add a bot of taste :P
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2009-03-27, 05:31 | Link #2650 | |
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2009-03-27, 09:56 | Link #2651 | ||
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You've not tasted spicy till you've had chilli crab! Everything else in the West is fluff by comparison. Why, I had a German dormmate choke on my Maggi curry noodles, and that was barely a tenth of how spicy almost anything else in Singapore, or Malaysia for that matter, can get. Quote:
But it doesn't really have to "burn" and, in fact, if it does, then the chef has most likely overused it. Spices are meant to enhance the flavour of food, especially meat. Historically, they've also been used as preservatives and also possibly to hide the taste of rotting meat. Having survived three years of bland British food as an undergraduate — and this was in the 20th century mind you; Indian food is a godsend to Britain — I hate to imagine what British food may have been like in the Middle Ages. It's no wonder Europeans conquered the world in search of spice. With such awful food waiting for them at home, who could blame them? |
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2009-03-27, 10:07 | Link #2652 | |
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If its not burning even just a bit its not spiced enough :P
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2009-03-27, 16:35 | Link #2653 | |
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2009-03-27, 17:58 | Link #2654 | |
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You misunderstand me. I was talking about spices, not stuff that rates off the scoville charts. There are plenty of dishes that are meant to just see if you can breath fire but spice to me is a compliment. I like both spicy and hot dishes, but I prefer flavors that enhance each other. If any one ingredient in my meal is overpowering I don't enjoy it as much. While I sometimes seek out a very hot dish, I don't desire getting used to it either. Constantly using very hot spices dulls my tastes for "non spicy" foods. It's just personal preference, I have friends that always eat the spiciest things they can find (and not just the "wimpy" tobasco )
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2009-03-28, 00:39 | Link #2655 |
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Coming from Singapore too... I must state that unless one went to some exotic Mexican-Indian hybrid Seafood-Restaurant that I do not know of, the Chilli Crab is by no means a dish anywhere near the top of the tongue-shredding scale of Capsaicin torture.
That said... the Chilli Crab dish IS still spicy, so don't take it lightly if you're not used to chilli. Cheers.
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2009-03-28, 00:55 | Link #2656 | |
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2009-03-28, 19:13 | Link #2660 |
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I've actually always been in the "liking spicy food is a form of masochism" school of thought but a recent experience changed my mind about that. I usually order "medium" spiciness when given the option, in order to not look like too much of a wimp, but few weeks ago I decided to order "low medium" at an Indian restaurant, ignoring the funny look the waiter gave me. And lo and behold, the food was less spicy, but also rather bland in terms of taste. It just ended up being uninteresting to eat.
So anyway, I've changed my evaluation of spiciness as a form of masochism into a necessary evil. The spiciness is an unfortunate side effect of the taste of the spices. Too much spiciness when you're not adapted to it overwhelms the taste, but too little spiciness removes taste as well. It's all about finding the limit of tolerable spiciness and staying there. That said, I prefer saltiness. I like to salt things a lot, and most people seem to think I'm crazy. |
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