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Serious Heat: Taming the Chile Fire
Did you try: chocolate (used to tame spiciness in some Mexican recipes) or the juice of a lime? Opposing strategies but largely effective in practice.
Serious Heat: Taming the Chile Fire
@Rickk: I tested out your two suggestions. Swishing the lime juice around the mouth did help get rid of the heat. Chocolate really helped tame the fire too, but seemed a tad wasteful for the scrumptious chocolate! From my personal experience, dairy products work the quickest.
@Raiders757: Purple chiles are more on the rare side but are out there. Here's a run-down of chile varieties: www.g6csy.net/chile/var-f.html
Serious Heat: Taming the Chile Fire
Gorgeous photo!
@juliebugs - you've done that, too, eh? I made the additional mistake of trying to put said lenses back in the next morning as well. Ended up wearing the glasses to work that day...
@nowonder - the oil trick is awesome. I always do that now. Ever since the contact lens incident.
Serious Heat: Taming the Chile Fire
Beautiful.
You could start a scientific serious eats section and discuss the various compositions and chemistries of veggies, meats, spices and yummy foods!
Serious Heat: Taming the Chile Fire
Those colors are glorious! Mother Nature might fool me into commiting arson on myself.
Serious Heat: Taming the Chile Fire
I don't think i've ever seen or tried a purple chili before. Where do I find some of those?
Serious Heat: Taming the Chile Fire
The best way to tame the heat is to use sugar or something sugary, like a stick of gum. The best and fastest way to tame a rippin hot mouth.
Serious Heat: Taming the Chile Fire
even washing your hands with soap and water will not remove the offending oil from your hands. Try rubbing your hands with veg oil and THEN washing your hands - takes it right off.
Serious Heat: Taming the Chile Fire
If you're going to be working with chiles a lot for a certain recipe, you may want to use a pair of rubber gloves. Sometimes washing your hands (even repeatedly) is not enough to purge your skin of the heat, I've touched my face and felt the heat hours after chopping chiles and washing my hands.
Serious Heat: Taming the Chile Fire
All those colorful peppers look like a party. So gorgeous.
Another tip: NEVER EVER attempt to take your contacts out after working with chilies.
Serious Heat: Taming the Chile Fire
That is a beautiful photo. And thanks for the PSA on washing hands after handling chiles, but why tiptoe around the issue? The term "sensitive areas" applies to a whole lot more than eyes. Ouch, indeed. :-P
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Did you try: chocolate (used to tame spiciness in some Mexican recipes) or the juice of a lime? Opposing strategies but largely effective in practice.