Why do some people think that making food, of which chilli powder constitutes approximately 10% makes it taste better?
Posted by anya at October 14, 2004 01:27 PM | TrackBackBest way of avoiding criticism....."Khup Teekhat Hota" is not a compliment but not a criticism either......just masks the taste.....
Personally,though I have tremendous capacity to eat spicy food, too much of it drives me crazy!
Posted by: Gautam at October 14, 2004 01:42 PMBecause when u eat that food your tongue gets so burnt that you just cant realize how bad the food actually is.. Tricks of the trade dude... :)
Posted by: Prashant at October 14, 2004 02:05 PMand to add to what prashant said, the area on ur tongue which detects sweetness is at teh back while the one ehich detects spicee is much in the front
Posted by: shodZ at October 14, 2004 02:29 PMshodz, wrong info about the sweet detection area
http://www.innerbody.com/image/nerve12.html
One end burns that day, the other the next. Ask for dahi politely :)
Posted by: Patrix at October 15, 2004 12:57 AMshodz, that's old school. Now they have figured out that the tongue cannot taste different in different places. I DID SOME RESEARCH ON THAT WHEN I LOST MY SENSE OF TASTE FOR A WHOLE WEEK!!!
aNYA, Because those people prefer spicy food. I hope I answered your mind boggling question.
Posted by: alpha at October 15, 2004 09:37 AMI guess a common practice here, not only adding spice, but trying to indianize all other cuisines...ever heard of doing tadka to broccoli! if you want to really add a lot of chili powder, why not prepare the zanzanit misal-pav...yummmy and firey!!! ooooooohhhhh aaaaaahhhh!! :)
Posted by: pseudofreud at October 15, 2004 11:12 AMajitomatix, alpha and others; sorry. let me update myself
Posted by: shodZ at October 15, 2004 03:10 PMmisal-pav, maaaan .. its been years!
Posted by: anya at October 15, 2004 03:40 PMThru years of research , it is a well know fact that spicy hot food is bad for health ,giving rise to ulcers,bad skin,IBS and general loss of taste.
Misal paav with taari is a sure shot way of gettin ur tail-lamps on.
This misconception about chilli being bad has also been proven wrong:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A292727