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originally posted by: LightSpeedDriver
a reply to: rickymouse
The "trick" with spicy (I'm guessing you mean chili) food is to build it up slowly. You don't go from meat and two veg one day to a ghost pepper the next. That will end in pain, tears and possibly even a trip to the hospital.
Try a gentle chili (my favourite registers around 300,000 on the scoville scale, not exactly gentle!) and build it up slowly over time. The health benefits are legion and once you get used to the heat, it is very comforting. Another trick is to make the meal the day before, put it in the fridge and let the flavours settle.
I cannot live without some good chili peppers every once in a while.
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: rickymouse
Try drinking twelve pints of beer before you eat it. It will taste like mana from the gods. Lots of mint sauce helps too.
If I drank twelve pints of beer, I would not be able to eat anything. Even when I used to drink, a six pack of beer was my limit for the whole day. I had plenty of hangovers, three beers and I was hung over the next day.