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Sun Sep-14-03 05:57 PM
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What, besides milk, helps counteract hot sauce? |
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The promptness of your response is appreciated. (OW OW OW OW OW...)
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Sun Sep-14-03 05:58 PM
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1. I've heard bread helps. |
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Maybe tomato juice, too. Anything that dissolves the capsicum (sp?) oil.
Water, pop, and beer do no good at all.
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Sun Sep-14-03 05:58 PM
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2. Baking Soda? Alka-Seltzer? |
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Soap and water if you touched a sensitive area if you've been cutting peppers and forgot to wash.
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Sun Sep-14-03 05:59 PM
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:00 PM
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..which is why Mexican restaurants always have it for sell.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:01 PM
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Edited on Sun Sep-14-03 06:10 PM by burrowowl
have been peeling chilis, rinse hands with a mild solution of clorox before touching eyes or going to the bathroom.
Honey helps.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:01 PM
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tortilla or any white bread will do
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:49 PM
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White bread is served at my local rib shack to put fires out. It works!
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:02 PM
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7. By far the best remedy is pineapple juice. |
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From experience!! I love good hot sauce and went to a famous "Q" joint in Des Moines Iowa a while back. "Big Daddy's" is known for his "9-11 screamer" sauce and I tried it and to be sure, it is worthy of its name. Anyway, Big Daddy was right there with the pineapple juice and it made it all better right away.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:03 PM
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I live in the Southwest, and bought, as everyone does, a huge burlap bag full of chiles to roast. I have spent most of the day roasting them, and still have a third to do. I love the heat.
Release those endorphins!
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:03 PM
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Do you have any ginger in your house?
Nothing helps indigestion or upset stomach better.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:04 PM
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10. I am going to Culinary College & we use bread |
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Bread soaked in milk would help and lay it on your tongue.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:08 PM
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Sun Sep-14-03 09:08 PM
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25. I agree, sugar will dull the pain |
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Sun Sep-14-03 09:46 PM
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27. At least that's what my Indian/Indonesian friends say |
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:10 PM
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:12 PM
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14. Hot tea, hot coffee, hot water...whatever. |
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:52 PM
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Coffee will agravate the problem once it gets down to the stomach.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:34 PM
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:37 PM
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16. A Mexican-American co-worker told me salt. |
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:37 PM
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17. I was gonna say bread |
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but everyone else beat me to it.
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:38 PM
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:46 PM
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20. bread soaks up the capsecum |
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use bread
works every time
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Sun Sep-14-03 06:42 PM
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19. Don't use booze, it'll make your problem worse, ditto bread & milk |
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Alcohol will not cut the oils that are spreading the heat around your mouth, it will simply spread them further. Milk has a cooling effect, but unless you're using the fully fatted variety, it will do nothing for you. The fats in the milk dilute the oils that are heating your palate. Take a swig of heavy cream, or let some ice cream melt in your mouth, then swallow.
Once that's accomplished, follow with a really acidic beverage like lemonade, limeade, etc. to cut the remaining oils.
& dude, if you can't stand hot food, don't put that stuff in your mouth.
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Sun Sep-14-03 07:06 PM
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Ice cream works, too, but I've always found bananas do the trick quite well.
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Sun Sep-14-03 08:59 PM
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24. bread, rice, prolly any carbs |
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definitely bread and milk tho
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Sun Sep-14-03 09:15 PM
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26. The best is a tortilla |
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The kind made with lard.
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Sun Sep-14-03 09:47 PM
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28. I'm really enjoying this thread! :) |
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By the time I post this, your problem will have passed. But, I am astounded at the variety of suggestions on this thread!
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Sun Sep-14-03 09:55 PM
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30. The object to eating spicy (hot) food is to enjoy the pain! |
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Sun Sep-14-03 09:53 PM
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Okay, it might not do anything for the heat (but then again, it might), but drinking motor oil will definately take your mind off the problem.
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Sun Sep-14-03 09:56 PM
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31. According to guys who would know... |
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The chemical which makes that hot taste can only be diluted by fat or alcohol. So the best things to drink would be beer or milk...
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Sun Sep-14-03 10:01 PM
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32. Some hold that bread is the worst thing to eat, I agree |
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Bread tends to turn to a mush that collects around your gums and between your teeth. As someonne pointed out earlier, it also absorbs the capsaicins, this means it tends to act like a plaster, it absorbs the hot stuff and then cements it against your gums, making it last longer.
Alcohol does dissolve the capsaicin. Citrus is good, pineapple juice id especially good.
But beer, good old fashioned beer, is my favorite antidote.
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