Reducing spiciness?

[disco_monkey79]

You could just man up and eat it :wink:


Pete

That's what I did with the first half! I'm hoping I can actually enjoy the 2nd half tonight...

 

[Trainee neophyte]

If you are cooking a Chilli con carne the secret is to put dark chocolate in it, that mellows the heat a lot.
As for oriental food, coconut milk?
But if you want a real fearsome Chinese cooking sauce here you go, I got it from the You tube channel Souped up kitchen.
Duo Jiao (Fermented Hot chilli sauce)
1 ld of chillis, (I used ring of fire cayenne & habanero cos thats what i had most of growing in the greenhouse!)
1 bulb of garlic
a big chunk of ginger
6 tbsp of salt
1tbsp of sugar
3 tbsp of strong alcohol, vodka, brandy.
Remove stalks & rough chop the chillis, garlic & ginger in a blender put in a bowl & mix in rest of ingredients. Cover & leave for a few days then put in jars. Will keep for about 6 months in the fridge.
A teaspoon of this sauce in a stir fry for three people is proper hot enough for us. Two would be like eating molten Lava. It is bloody gorgeous!

Ah, yes - the Ring Of Fire.

"...and it burns, burns, burns,
The ring of fire", etc.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QfCOJLRk2D4

 

[Steve Maskery]

The other thing you can try is just to cook it out, long and slow. Over a candle for a week. That will reduce the heat without messing about with the actual flavours.

 

[Racers]

My wife used to work in the evenings so tea for me and the boys was up to me, I gradualy increased the chilli level and got them used to it, but the wife complains of the heat and the boys say its o/k.

Slow cooking works to reduce the heat of fresh chillies as Steve points out.

Pete

 

[sunnybob]

I've been in love with asian spicy food for over a quarter century now, but I have to admit I went to Phuket in january 2018, and the local food was mostly inedible to me. I think they had upped it for the tourists, but even with extra rice I had a few curries I couldnt eat.

So I fell back on the one that almost always works, minced beef and basil, with sticky rice. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

 

[thick_mike]

Can we add some yoghurt to the BBC Rant thread?

Couple of spoons in the sharpening and bandsaw guide threads too!

 

[That would work]

Salt.... I wasn't joking!

 

[marcros]

I find salt makes it worse, but researching I can't lay my hand on any evidence one way or the other.

If the recipe will suit, some form of dairy helps. If not, a little sugar.

 

[SamTheJarvis]

Capsaicin is soluble in milk/fat. Retro-active milk drinking doesn't do much however. Drinking milk -before- eating spicy food is much more effective!