• @pseudo@jlai.lu
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    35 hours ago

    I’m love to experience with different heat sensation when cooking. Every pepper is warming slightly differently and you can change the whole tasting experience by change the “heat source” of a dish. Recently, I’ve tasted Sichuan pepper and it what actually cold! And a cold very different from mint. Although round-leave mint and pepper mint (here another plant called pepper that’s cold!) have different sensation as well. I should try experiment with cold as well (*_*)

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        I didn’t know the english name but this one is very good. A nice balance or freshness and flavor.

  • M137
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    15 hours ago

    “they’ll each other out”

    How has no one commented on this?

  • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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    6818 hours ago

    We mammals, and only we mammals, have nerve receptors capsaicin triggers. Birds don’t have such receptors. They happily chow peppers and poop the whole seeds all over.

    Meanwhile, we mammals, who are supposed to hate the heat because we grind the seeds to death, have happily bred hotter and hotter peppers and spread them all over the planet.

    I know of no such evolutionary win-win as peppers have pulled off. Genius.

  • @hOrni@lemmy.world
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    411 hours ago

    According to this theory, if I make Buldag ramen using boiling Listerine, it will be tasteless.

    • Blastboom Strice
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      I wanted to try this, but I dont exactly have a menthol source :/

      (Or do I?)

      Edit: I have a mint mouthwash and spicy cheese paste, hmmm

      Edit2: Well, I took half the dosage of the moutwash and did a flush and then ate the cheese paste with the bread. I dont know if it was the fact that I didnt use enough mouthwash, but the experience was kinda mediocre.

      At first the spicy didnt register, but that might be because for spicy cheese paste it takes a little time to feel the burn. I think I could feel both the icy and the spicy sensations, depending on where I focused, but it wasn’t something amazing (or intense, but that’s probably because both sources were mild). I think the taste that lasted the most is the sweetener from the mouthwash.😅

      Maybe one day I’ll make my cherry juice with menthol and capsaicin.

    • @chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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      171 day ago

      As someone who loves hot sauce and smokes menthols, I’m dubious. Maybe my hot sauce is too hot, but it will completely negate the menthol. I haven’t tried it with Altoids or anything, but I don’t know…

  • lettruthout
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    5024 hours ago

    Years ago I did a different version: getting out of a very hot jacuzzi then jumping into a snow bank. 'Worth a try. Once.

  • masterofn001
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    23 hours ago

    Rub A535 or Icy-Hot on your tender bits.

    For science.

  • @somebodysomewhere@lemmy.world
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    215 hours ago

    This is not new and it does work to some extent. Back in highschool my buddies and I used to cheat at hot wings challenges by chewing a few cough drops first.

    • @PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world
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      35 hours ago

      In a very traditional Afghan restaurant I used to frequent, if you ordered something really spicy, they’d bring you these small mint drops afterwards to chew on, no extra charge. Worked very well for me.