Stop Drinking Water After Eating Spicy Food, Do This Instead | Flavor Forward
What’s the best way to cure your mouth from a very spicy bite? Today, Nik Sharma is putting five popular cures to the test using America’s Test Kitchen’s spiciest recipe—Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice!
Nik explains the science of how capsaicin, the chemical compound in chili peppers, tricks your brain into thinking your mouth is on fire, and how different compounds like the ones in black pepper, Sichuan peppercorns, and mustard interact with your receptors. Then, several of our brave ATK staff test out different spice-soothing foods to see what actually works when you can’t handle the heat.
00:00 Intro
01:45 Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice
05:56 Best Cure for Spicy Food
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Coconut water works for me but I have to keep drinking it until the capsaicin has completely dissipated
Milk is my go to
just plain ice has been the best for me
I really like Yeshu brand chinese coconut juice for this. I always drink it when having Szechuan food like mapo tofu. It basically tasted like sweetened coconut milk, so it makes sense lol
Never tried personally but I’m curious why don’t you swish/ gargle your mouth with some seed oil, like sunflower oil, and then spit it out?
Stronger beer– more ethanol. IPAs work the best. IPA Ice cream? Someone call NASA– we need to figure this out!
A teaspoon of sugar. Straight off a spoon . That's what we always use.
Her reaction was priceless, I would have said the same thing exactly "Bread, really?", and then his desk mate was almost angry with him by asking him if water was a part of his research. Again priceless
My best solution is take a sip of really hot milk tea. It instantly numbs your mouth then trick your brain to not feeling spice anymore
A Mexican man recommended butter — a small spoon of butter— would help.
Ice cream is my favorite way to combat most things.
Yogurt and sour cream are good but I'm always fine drinking water and/or beer for spice.
Why would you want to lessen the experience? I love all things hot, and I love the lingering effects of the burn.
butter works.
Very pleasing to listen to ❤
Dairy in general is the best. Milk, yogurt, ice cream, etc.
I’ve been a subscriber for 20 years. Live in Iowa always halve the the amt of hot spices in atc recipes.
Orange juice!! Why doesn’t anyone use orange juice?!?! The acid cuts the oil-based capsaicin. Personal experience.
how did you not test milk?
Just avoid …I am NOT fond of HOT chilies….AND I live in MEXICO!!
Mango lassi kills the heat instantly for me.
I think milk will do as good a job as ice cream and is cheaper 😂
Ok, I just had to look up the recipe to see how hot it was, and the only ingredient with any capsaicin in it is dried Chiles de Arbol, which are hot, but not really even that hot, 15,000-30,000 Scoville, so like, medium heat. Tabasco peppers are hotter than Arbols. "How did this even get ou of the test kitchen?" That's weak.
Someone needs to teach him how to pour a beer.
13:53 beer doesn't work, but I'll take another sip anyways 😂