Your curry IQ

How to measure your curry IQ, any suggestions, and what would be a grading mechanism.

Simple 0-100 LMs (Lurker Marks)

0 being prawn cocktail, and 100 the curry I got at the Taj Mahal when I said I wanted it Mark hot.

The 0 sounds ok, but you need a level above 100, cos there is always a bigger fish.

But how to determine such a measure

Can't you objectively measure with that chile scale?

Clearly the Scoville scale is the ultimate measure.

What is this Tabasco thing? (Never having put it near curry)

I would agree that the Scoville scale would be an excellent starting point, but we need a curry version, perhaps referencing actual names of chillies. For example the Naga Jolokia or Ghost Chili from the Assam region of india comes in at slightly over 1M Scovilles or 800K Scovilles depending on who measured it. Interstingly enough one of the measures (the lower one) comes from the Indian Defence Research Institute.