Posted on 03/01/2015 10:47:08 AM PST by PJ-Comix
A couple of years ago I was out to lunch in Bangkok at a cafeteria-style restaurant with communal tables. I had ordered one of my favorite dishes, larb moo, minced pork with peppers and spices. A few bites in I started to feel the heat. About a minute later my mouth was in full emergency mode. Bright red and with sweat pouring from my forehead, I began chugging down one bottled water after another. My Thai tablemates watched in obvious amusement. Several were also eating the larb moo, yet clearly weren’t feeling the heat to the degree that I was. Why?
“We know that when you eat spicy food over and over again, it does actually start to burn less,” says John Hayes, director of the Sensory Evaluation Center, a research facility at Pennsylvania State University that studies the relationships between food and the senses. “The reason that I might use a lot more Sriracha than you is because I could be desensitized and actually perceive less burn from it.”
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How do those burgers taste pan fried? Is it in the meat department or the frozen section?
Where did you buy a ghost pepper taco? Here in Florida I would like to try that.
“Once all the nerve endings in your mouth have been burned away it’s not hot at all.”
I have often wondered if that might not be true. My grandfather lived on green chilis (the Hatch hot or the local northern New Mexico hot). He always had a dish of pureed green chili at his side so that he could add to each meal. Even at Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner, he always added green chili to his turkey, dressing, etc. He even put it on bologna sandwiches... He said he couldn’t taste anything if he didn’t add green chili to it.
He lived to be 97, so I think it must have some health benefits...
I’m surprised no one picked up on your post, which is an analogy to the political trick of how to boil a frog so that the frog doesn’t realize it’s being cooked until it is too late.
Applied to an entire U.S. population of 330,000,000 which seems blissfully unaware to being slowly boiled in an encroaching Obama dictatorship.
On topic, I like spicy food but not hot-hot. Cremating the taste buds does not IMHO contribute to enjoying the food.
Hot and spicy is one thing. Hades to the max, no thanks. I want to taste the food.
It is very true.
When I lived in Switzerland and we went to, say, a Thai restaurant, what would leave me wanting it a bit hotter would have my swiss friends gasping and clutching. However, they could drink cognac like it was water, where each sip had me nearly gagging.
The men at work could not understand how I could eat DAVE’S like it was going out of style.
I used it in CREAM SOUPS!;-D They never caught on!
I cake of Ramen noodles, one half can of cream of whatever soup, Water for the noodles. Large dash of DAVE’S to make the soup pink.
Delicious! Of course, you felt it the next day!
My daily omelette HAS to have pickled jalapeño slices in it. And cheddar.
There was a place in Tampa—Taco Fusion, but it looks like they closed. You’re supposed to sign a waiver, but it was a lunch order from work so my friends picked them up.
They had tons of exotic tacos, but the ghost pepper one really sucked. The chicken was not even spiced, and the peppers were just raw. I love heat, but that was crazy.
You call using jalapeno not "too hot". LOL! I am someone who can tell if a jalapeno has been lying next to something, I pick up on heat that easily. I once tried "mild" chicken wings. What a disaster. It took me a long time, I think into my mid to late 30's, to even be able to tolerate a little pepper on my scrambled eggs.
Most aficionados will concede that they have "blown themselves up" more than once.
Put me in an Indian restaurant with bowls full of the spicey chutney and I’m in heaven. When I stay in Europe my friends look at me as if I were from Neptune. Their idea of a spicy condiment is mayonaise. Luckily, I found most stores sell tobasco. Not my favorite so I always bring in a bottle or two with me. There are certain hot spices that I can’t do though. The Thai and Koreans use the extra oily peppers that don’t wear off. I can drink tobasco by the bottle and eat wasabi by the spoon full. But those little Thai peppers are killers. And I love spicy food.
I made some chili for a chili contest. I sauteed habs, jalapenos and onions to begin the process. Then I added the rest of the ingredients.
It wasn’t particularly hot but everyone broke out in a sweat after about 6 bites.
My mouth likes spicy food ............ It is a little farther down in my body that doesn’t like them. If I eat spicy food or even black or red pepper, I will end up in the ER in 48 hours. Colitis is not fun and it is not worth eating spicy food because my mouth likes it!
Meat department and they are great pan fried and bbq.
I am a diabetic, so I don’t eat buns and I am always looking for something different yet safe.
At the local Indian restaurant I ask for an extra side of their hot Vindaloo sauce to their already hot curries and spicy dishes. I guess the Naan bread and rice pudding take the edge of the heat off.
I grew some Jalapeños last year and sautéed them for all sorts of meals. My wife yelled at me because she had friends over and the acrid smell permeated the house, but man, they are sooo good!
The really evil stuff burn all the way down, and burns all the way out in a few hours.
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