My secret for deadly peppers is to place a slice of highly acidic, salted tomato on my tongue...works pretty good.
"My secret for deadly peppers is to place a slice of highly acidic, salted tomato on my tongue..."
Boy, wish I'd known that about half hour ago. Our local supermarket has an olive bar and you can have samples. One of them was an olive stuffed with habanero. Well, needless to say, I just had to have one. I swear it took me a good 20 minutes to get the fire out of my mouth, and to make matters worse I got the hiccups from it. Whew, was that toasty!!!
I've never heard about the tomato part - but I do know about the salt.
Put salt on your tongue and just hold it there as long as you can - spit it out and then rinse. Repeat as necessary, but do not swallow the salted saliva.