it tastes like burning

[rivendellrose]

I think Thai food gets hotter when you leave it to refrigerate overnight. o_O Leftovers are very good, but definitely more spicy than I remember.

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[gryffin-rune.livejournal.com]

I think that's true too cause I've had the same thing happen. I think maybe that it's the spice jsut has that much longer to soak into everything.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

That must be it - the rice wasn't in with everything else, but I had a bit less rice in comparison to the sauce, too, so that's probably part of it, also....

[gryffin-rune.livejournal.com]

Yeah that sounds about right. ^^;

And man I would so go with you to the movies tonight cause I haven't seen you in forever but yeah I wouldn't get home til like insane late.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not even sure if I'm going, with an 8:30 class to consider. *Pats*

[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, spicy food. I want some, now. :/

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Awww, I'm sorry! Spicy food is definitely a thing that inspires cravings. *hugs*

[cirakaite.livejournal.com]

Chile and other types of spices do actually get spicier when refridgerated or frozen. I'm not entirely sure on the chemistry of it, but the spices themselves get more potent. My mum makes a certain recipe of chile that we're under orders to eat before it has to be refrigerated, because that takes it past deadly and into lethal. *g*

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Aha! I thought so!

LOL! I can't eat anything that spicy (the curry I was talking about is only 2 stars...), but I will definitely have to remember that if I accidentally get something too mild... or too hot!

[scearley.livejournal.com]

spices in foods are oil-based, so when you refrigerate them the oil solidifies and the water is pushed out. There's just more spice per volume because water is removed.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhh. That makes sense! Thank you!

[scearley.livejournal.com]

that's also why milk will help remove the spice from your mouth while water seems to make things worse. milk is chemically a base, so it will more readily wash away the oil on your tongue. Water just rolls off the oil and washes away the non-oils, essentially "purifying" the hot oil.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I knew about milk helping with spice, and I knew about spice generally being an oil, but for some reason I'd never connected that to the chilling factor! Awesome.

[gryffin-rune.livejournal.com]

Another really good thing for spice is eating peanuts. I accidentally ate habanero sauce and it took the burn away immediately.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Peanuts, huh? Weird. I've heard of bread being a good thing, or rice, since they kind of suck up the spicy - maybe peanuts do something similar.

[gryffin-rune.livejournal.com]

Well according to Good Eats it's actually something in the oil that nuetralizes the heat or something XD;; /dork