Notebook of a spicy food fanatic
Tips for Spicy Living
The 7 Rules of Eating Spicy
- Eating spicy is all about flavor,
and NOT about macho-ness.
As long as spicyness are adding to the enjoyment of the dish, go for it!
But don't push it beyond your own sense of enjoyment.
- What goes up must come down... and what goes in must come out.
Unless your digestive system (and pain threshold) are used to this, you should work up to it.
- You will discover that you have different tolerances to different spices.
I'm nuts about habaneros, but a basic spicy vindaloo sauce doesn't sit well
with my stomach.
- Be safe! I always thought peeling peppers while wearing gloves was stupid,
until one day I accidentally rubbed my eye with the back of my hand...
which I thought was untainted with pepperjuice. Wrongo.
- Keeps you spices away from your children. Treat your peppers like matches!
I remember well once hearing a story of a kid that dared another to eat a
habanero from dad's garden. The poor kid went into respiratory arrest.
True story? I can't be sure, but don't let your kids be the ones to find out!
- The tao of the sweet and the spicy.
Due to chemical magicks I do not fully comprehend,
often times the best way to make a spicy dish hotter
is to add something sweet.
This is why some of the best Texas chili's have brown sugar or honey,
and the spiciest Thai curries have coconut milk.
- As a rule, it is believed by ethnically spicy cultures
that white people cannot hack spicy food.
If you want real spicy food, you need to develop special communication skills.
How to order spicy dishes at the restaurant