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B@rt said:
Hmm, sounds like my "flaming pizza"... I always regret it the day after... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Geep, you get used to them... Try sucking on a sugar cube next time. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
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Not sure if it has anything to do with sugar, but if you have the miniature chocolate chips around handy with you, grab a handful and chew on them and swallow. What I think this does, something in the chocolate will bind with the heat part of the chili pepper, the active chemical capsaicin; and prevent it from getting worse. Some of the capsaicin has already bound to your pain receptors, so this is too late to do anything about it, but what capsaicin that is still in your mouth that has not bound with the pain receptors yet, will be taken care of by the chocolate.
Regretfulness can come much faster than "the day after" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif, depends on the potency of the peppers you have eaten. For some real fun (best to know your friends very well before trying this, as it could cause major anger/resentment); put some of these bird peppers known as Chiltecpin, onto the pizza. These are the only known native peppers to North America before Columbus came to the Americas, all other peppers were introduced from other parts of the world. A very primitive pepper the bird pepper; as it is called because birds think they are a delicacy like a berry and eat them like crazy---birds are also quite primitive flying dinosaurs that are unaffected by the burning heat of peppers; has a primitive form of capsaicin that is much shorter in duration, say 5-10 minutes of greatest intensity, while typical burn from your average pepper will last at least 15 minutes.
Jalapeños are only rated at about 6,000 Scoville heat units. Commercial concentrate capsaicin used in mass produced hot sauces to dilute to uniform heat ranges, is what is typically used in self-defense pepper sprays. This concentrated liquid is 1.5 million Scoville heat units. Pure capsaicin is 15 million on the Scoville scale. The world record hottest pepper is a version of the habañero known as the 'Red Savina' at 500,000 Scoville units. Average habañero/Scotch Bonnet pepper is 300,000; while the Chiltecpin is 2nd hottest at 100,000. Unless you have built-up a tolerance, typically eating a fresh ripe habañero will have devastating (but harmless) effects, they are truly 'thermonuclear' in their power.
Click on pic for large close-up of Chiltecpin ('bird pepper')
1st effect of eating entire habañero (ribbed part of the inside that the seeds are connected to known as the placenta, is where the greatest amount of capsaicin is inside the pepper pod) is dreaded searing pain in the mouth, vapors which can seep up into the sinuses and even cause severe pain in the glands of your ear! (this has happened to me before, be warned!). Typically you will need a facial tissue for massive runny nose you will experience, your eyes will tear up, and most likely your forehead will start to perspire profusely /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif. Hehe, that's only the 1st stage of torture.
Then the 2nd phase, when the eaten habañero capsaicin hits your stomach you will have massively painfully uncomfortable stomach aching. Nothing but the passing of time will help here with this stage, you have been warned!
3rd phase is umm, well perhaps we shouldn't go there /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif; the, pun intended, 'end result' 3rd phase. You'll need to be near a toilet, because that final phase is a completely involuntary reaction you cannot stop! When that capsaicin hits the end of it's journey through your digestive system, your bowels will be saying "WTF did you eat!" and very, very quickly 'discharge/evacuate/eject with all due diligence' the offending substance /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Then comes perhaps the most uncomfortable burning pain of all, at that most tender and sensitive exit point. hehe, 15+ more painful minutes on the way out! Kids, don't try this at home /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif