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Thank fuck for the explainer. Looked like white mold growing out of their throat.
Definitely thought she was kirbying a cotton ball
Without context this picture will haunt me for a long time. I hate mold.
With context I have no idea what tf she's doing.
Is she eating cotton balls?
It's ice
OH it's like, her whole mouth, there's clear parts of the ice too. That makes more sense.
I was also wondering why she was making that face, but to be fair some people can just do that with their lips.
Without reading the original, I thought she woke up to a spider web spin in her throat.
Talk about nightmare fuel.
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My dad loves spicy food, so my mom grows habaneros and jalapenos for him out in her garden. One year she even did some Carolina reapers, but she refused after the first year. When the harvest is winding down, she dehydrates them and grinds them into a powder for him to use as a seasoning.
I made the mistake of visiting them when she was doing that. She was walking around with a mask and goggles and I quickly figured out why. The dehydrator turns the kitchen into a biohazard zone. Like tear gas all throughout.
When I got into dehydrating, I looked up things to dehydrate and man I'm so glad everyone was shouting warnings about not dehydrating peppers in the house, you'd gas yourself out lol
The hottest pepper I will dehydrate in the house is cayenne. I still have to run the exhaust fan that vents to outside or it will gas you out.
LoL, when I make salsa it involves broiling peppers and it basically makes the entire house feel like you got tear gassed.
Yeah my friend dehydrates and grinds them outside or in his shed depending on the weather.
Olive oil. It's gross, but if pain isn't your thing, it works. It's like cat litter for the spicy molecules.
Aunt Wendy + Carolina Reaper = Carp
I should call her...
A few hours later...
Am I the only person who doesn't have this issue with eating spicy food?
It reminds me of the "hurr durr Taco Bell gives you diarrhea" memes. Like really? Maybe you need to see a doctor?
I personally don't see any connection between spiciness and stomach/bowel issues.
I think it's just like the "obvious" answer ("food was spicy, now my tummy hurts, therefore spiciness makes my tummy hurt"), when in reality, at most people are just experiencing a correlation.
Capsaicin can irritate intestines just like it irritates every other mucus membrane. When that happens, they will often decide to speed up the substances trip, which leaves less time for water to be extracted. Other food will get dragged along with the expedited.
So you are left with a spicy, liquidy, morass of poor choices that burns the starfish as its last 'fuck you' on the way out.
Doesn't happen to everyone, but it does happen.
Ever had something so spicy you can feel it snaking it's way through your guts?
As a frequent spicy eater with IBS, yes. I’ve had:
- Spicy guts
- Ears ringing
- Fire pee
In addition to the usual sweats, hiccups, and fire poops.
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As a frequent eater of really spicy food, nope, I'm usually just fine. Eat more fiber y'all!.
I get at least 40 grams in a day, that doesn't do shit for spicy intestines
I had this only once and it was so bad. I thought it would only hurt going in and coming out, as per ush.
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Okay, but ice isn't good for this; ~~it's a chemical burn, and~~ capsaicin is fat-soluble. You ideally want something like milk. Meanwhile, on your hands (assuming some of it got on those), you want to cover your hands in oil and then wash them with dish soap (and once those are clean, if there's residual burning, you can use topical pain treatments).
Edit: My understanding of the term "chemical burn" was mistaken. Thanks to @Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world for calling me out on this. I didn't know it had to be corrosive or cytotoxic to be a "chemical burn"; I thought irritants generally were included.
Edit 2: Actually, looking further into this, I'm not so sure I was technically wrong at the level of capsaicin you'd be exposing yourself to with a Carolina Reaper. Capsaicin can be cytotoxic. I wonder now if very minor nerve death occurs at this level of spice. Either way, that's not the main problem if it's even happening; my comment was wrong regardless of possible technical accuracy.
It is NOT a chemical burn. It's an activation of TRPV1 receptors. Normally these receptors activate due to increased temperature, capsaicin activation means they think there's literally an increase in temperature. They THINK you're burning, but you're not. There's no chemical burn; it's reversible and generally safe with no lasting damage.
Your fat soluble comments are accurate, although it's really time more than anything else that will alleviate the pain. You do not need to soak your hands in oil before washing, not sure where you got that from. Soap and water works fine.
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I tried that oil thing the last time my hands got too spicy and I was super disappointed it didn't do anything. I even tried again a few minutes later because it was so ineffectual but nothing.
Gordon Ramsey ate peanut butter for this purpose once and I've been curious to try that. I feel like it would work.
Yeah, that’s why some Thai (and other countries) dishes use things like peanut sauce with spicy dishes.
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Milk helps.
Yeah but intestinal capscasin overload plus lactose intolerance is a whole nother world of hurt.
If I do that I bet my farts will propel me so hard I'll break the sound barrier
You only get farts from dairy? I wish.
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big badda boooooom
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New wojack just dropped
Bullshit. Your mouth would be 100% ok after two hours. This whole post is full of shit.
I mean I have a pretty high spice tolerance and in my cocky youth I took up a friend's offer of some Carolina reapers and had about a nail's size of the chillies and I was definitely not okay after 2 hours
yeah some nans have a sense of humor, would you rather have a silly lady or a vicious karen?
Go eat some Carolina reapers but don't use any fat/oil based substances to clean your mouth
Can you imagine the surprise of their unsuspecting neighbor, who was just trying to grow some bell peppers, but which got pollinated with the Reaper?
I grew some reapers a while ago. The difference in heat between them and a standard habanero is comical.
My buddy brought a pizza to work. A local pizzeria makes what they call a Russian Roulette. It’s a regular large pizza with jalapeños… Except that one slice has Carolina reaper blended into the sauce under the cheese. He told us all the gimmick, we all laughed and circled round to take a bite at the same time.
That sly motherfucker had asked them to make the entire pizza with the reaper sauce. The heat was immediate and overwhelming, and all of us simultaneously went “oh god oh fuck I got the reaper slice.” And as we all rushed to the lone water fountain, we realized what he had done.
It was a great prank. We all ended up fighting over that water fountain for like 20 minutes, like we were trapped underwater holding our breath, and it was the only air hose.
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