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I prefer the really pungent chilis. Ghost pepper and habenero and scotch bonnet are all very hot, yes, but they have these wonderful sweet fruity tastes that a
by rjbwork 10y ago
I prefer the really pungent chilis. Ghost pepper and habenero and scotch bonnet are all very hot, yes, but they have these wonderful sweet fruity tastes that are just delightful.
I don't know about bread, and don't quite see why that might work. From my understanding, something like milk is great because it has a good amount of fat in it. As capsaicin is a fat/oil soluble molecule, it helps wash it away by dissolving it, and as a liquid, gives a huge surface area for contact with the capsaicin.
- LoSboccacc 10y agohabanero is my personal fav. it's tasty, it has a wonderful smell and it isn't too hot - as in, you get a decent amount of taste without having to overdo the hotnsess.
- rjbwork 10y agoScotch Bonnets are mine - I absolutely love Jamaican food, where it's very prevalent. Interestingly enough, they are the same species, just different local cultivars.
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- FreezerburnV 10y agoFrom what I understand, yogurt is the king of reducing the hotness of spicy peppers. It's what I understand pretty much every meal is served with in India, generally plain and not the sugary stuff we usually get here. Or maybe mixed with mango in a delicious drink :)
- mrkgnao 10y agoMy mind immediately went, "Indian cuisine is waaay too varied for generalizations like that to work..." before I realised that my corresponding mental models of, say, Chinese or Italian food probably suffer from the same problem. :) Yogurt is usually churned into buttermilk: lassi, as it's called, is excellent, especially if you make the yogurt (dahi, or variations on that: in Bengali it's doi) at home: you take some milk, put a small amount of the yogurt you made the day before in it to "bootstrap" the culture, and off you go. But lassi going with every meal is, to my knowledge, a characteristically north Indian/Pakistani thing. Mangoes (assuming you mean ripe ones, not green) are a summer thing, and you do find roadside stalls doing "mango lassi" as part of their lists (which are impressive for their length, in addition to being $deity-sends when preceded by a suitably exhausting experience on public transport). I have the feeling, though, that it's probably something one is more likely to find outside of India. (I'm from Kolkata, btw. Thanks for the chance to go on this unintended happy-rant.)
- 725686 10y agoRegarding bread, maybe relief is not the right word... bread will absorb the greasy substance and prevent it for further irritation.