Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
  • Mood: amused

Real Ethnic Food

Yep.  This the true story of what happens when a fair-skinned person walks into an ethnic restaurant and orders HOT food (3 pages).  I have seen versions of this with multiple friends.  Me, the closest I get is having people stare at me when I eat crystalized ginger root as candy.  Link courtesy of my_partner_doug (who likes not just Food That Commands Respect, but food that coshes your respect over the head and drags it into a dark alley to rifle its pockets for loose taste buds).
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ysabetwordsmith

Hmm...

ysabetwordsmith

March 15 2011, 22:49:16 UTC 10 years ago

The concept is good, but the execution would be difficult because ingredients change their heat level as they are cooked and combined. Each dish would need to be tested, and that's a major nuisance -- even before you get the fact that different batches of peppers, etc. can have different heat levels. We had one batch of tabasco peppers that were "meh" and another batch that were "yipe!"
the_s_guy

Re: Hmm...

the_s_guy

March 16 2011, 06:53:31 UTC 10 years ago

True. An approximation wouldn't be bad, though - presumably a restaurant cook's version of a dish doesn't vary all the way between "vanilla" and "flaming radioactive mouth death" from night to night.

An average Scoville number would be OK, even if the actual dish on any given day could vary by a factor of ten percent or more.