If you eat something too hot, how do you get rid of the burning in your mouth?

[undeterred]

I'm miserable.

[begin_within]

1. You mean hot in temperature or spiciness?

[undeterred]

3. Spiciness- Popeyes shrimp and the sauce

I don't think they think its hot- but lots of things other people think are normal are too spicy for me.

[Shakespeare]

2. milk and bananas both contain enzymes that counteract the heat.

Ice cream's always a fun remedy. :9

[undeterred]

4. Thanks- I just happen to have both on hand!

[Richard Steele]

23. I knew about milk, but not bananas.

This opens up new recipe possibilities- thanks! :hi:

[mzteris]

5. at the chinese restaurant

a couple of weeks back, one of my dining companions ate a pepper by mistake - the owner stopped her when she reached for her glass - No No - eat some plain rice!!

It worked quite quickly.


I don't know about long after the fact, though.

[undeterred]

6. The banana cured me.

Thanks!

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. "The banana cured me."

That would make a great signature line or a song lyric :-)

Glad all's well!

Yogurt, especially cucumber yogurt, is also a quick cure.

[undeterred]

34. I am at peace with the world since I met the great banana.

:hi:

[jobycom]

7. DON'T!!! Embrace the heat, feel it, love it, enjoy it for what it is

Rage, rage against the dying of the heat!

[undeterred]

9. Nah, this was my first and last visit to Popeyes.

:shrug: It was impulse eating.

[hippywife]

16. I absolutely love Popeyes!

They have the best chicken sandwich anywhere! Even the bun is different than the standard fast food bun. And you can get the chicken mild instead of spicy.

And my answer to your original question is: bread.

[MadMaddie]

37. You can always get mild!!

:popcorn:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

11. Dylan Thomas hates you.

:P

[undeterred]

18. Why?

:shrug:

[last_texas_dem]

30. In jobycom's post, he was jokingly

referencing the Dylan Thomas poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night."

http://www.bigeye.com/donotgo.htm

ON EDIT: I had the title wrong...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

32. "Rage, rage against the dying of the heat!"

Dylan Thomas had a (rather odd) poem titled "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" which included the line "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

:D

ETA: Conflated the poem title and the actual line. Whoops.

[Kali]

8. chug your margarita

seriously - acid counteracts the burn (ever hear of vinegar for sunburn?) the lemon or lime in a margarita is acidic.
this is assuming it's a real margarita made with real juice, not some slushy teen drink out of a machine.

[JVS]

10. milk

[China_cat]

12. Anything with an oil base...milk, yogurt, sour cream

olive oil, canola, etc. Or vodka.

The clear alcohol works wonders on killing the pain.

[Midlodemocrat]

13. Dairy cuts fire. If you're in that much pain, try sour cream.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Bread, milk, cream, yogurt, peanut butter or just poke a pepper in my eye

and the pain in my mouth is quickly forgotten.

But, the safest route is bread, milk, cream, ice cream, yogurt, any kind of nut butter (peanut, cashew, sesame, etc.).

The capsaicin will also go into solution in alcohol, so use the highest proof non-sweet you have: vodka, 151 Rum, gin, or preferably everclear. And don't drink it - let it go into the mouth, then spit it out.

[last_texas_dem]

15. I usually just suffer

but the most embarrassing part is when it makes your nose run! That seems to happen to me when I eat spicy kinds of Mexican food. But I remember eating bread to remove the spiciness of some Indian food once, and I'm sure the other recommendations on this thread are good as well. (Of course, since you've already been relieved of the burning, it's all moot anyway!)

[undeterred]

19. 999 out of 1000 people wouldn't consider this spicy, I'm sure

I just don't have a very high tolerance for spice, I'm afraid. I can only go to Indian or Mexican restaurants "supervised", i.e., with people I trust to help me order food that is not going to make me crazy. But I've worked with some Indian men who long ago burned off their taste buds and kept pouring on more seasonings. It almost hurt to watch.

[last_texas_dem]

24. I'm not that tough when it comes to spices, either

Cajun food doesn't tend to bother me (or maybe I've just become more used to it than I would otherwise, growing up on the outskirts of "Cajun country") but most Indian food that I've had kills me. I still eat it from time to time because I love the taste of it, but the amount of burn my tongue feels everytime I eat it (and the way it messes with my stomach a bit as well) are probably signs I should avoid it altogether!

[undeterred]

27. I don't care for cajun and curry makes me barf

so that covers a pretty wide array of some kinds of cooking.

[XemaSab]

17. Eat something mild

Yogurt, maybe.

Whatever it is has to be slightly oily.

[ghostsofgiants]

20. I always go for milk.

[JTG of the PRB]

21. Get a new tongue.

That usually works for me. :shrug:

[BrotherBuzz]

25. Balloon bread

[pokerfan]

26. Do not drink water!

You know the old saying, water and oil don't mix? Well, they don't. All drinking water does is transport the burning capsaicin oils to uninjured parts of the mouth.

Milk, yogurt or sour cream is the ticket.

[Nikia]

28. Ice cream

The first time I ate ice cream again when I was starting to recover from anorexia was when I was tried some hot salsa that caused my mouth to burn.

[undeterred]

31. ok thats why I ate the turtle sundae this afternoon

I needed an excuse :hi:

[Taverner]

29. Fat. And Salt.

Eat fatty foods and salt. They will eliminate the pain.

I lived in Thailand for 3 years and ate food that would send most of you guys into a coma.

[yellowdogintexas]

33. bread and butter, or plain rice, or other starcy thing.

warm corn tortillas and butter are a good antidote for Mexican chiliness.
rice for Asian

[Pacifist Patriot]

35. Dairy product, especially milk.

[conscious evolution]

36. Milk also counters pepperspray

[undeterred]

39. I wouldn't eat pepperspray.

But maybe that will be good to know sometime.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

38. I think the traditional thing to do is drink milk and eat bread, especially "dense" bread.

I've heard that yogurt also works.

Water is a no-no, especially with the really, truly, honestly spicy stuff.

I personally don't care to have a five-alarm explosion in my mouth, but one of my friends is a junkie for spicy stuff--the real spice, not the faux-spice you usually find in Maine--and I think that's what she does once she's sick of the burn.

[crim son]

40. I love heat.

At our local Indian restaurant, the wife of the owner has been testing me with various chili peppers. She keeps upping the heat ante and I'm doing pretty well. She brought out a couple of tiny green ones but I could only eat one of them. Lord. I love the burn, though.

Milk, yoghurt, sour cream - they all work for me.