• Iron Lynx
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    122 hours ago

    After reading this, for some reason, the phrase “cryogenic hellfire” lives rent-free in my brain.

  • @[email protected]
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    283 days ago

    My new recipe book:

    A Taste of Fire and Ice.

    Just don’t expect the sequel to be released anytime soon.

  • @[email protected]
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    803 days ago

    We mammals, and only we mammals, have nerve receptors capsaicin triggers. Birds don’t have such receptors. They happily chow peppers and poop the whole seeds all over.

    Meanwhile, we mammals, who are supposed to hate the heat because we grind the seeds to death, have happily bred hotter and hotter peppers and spread them all over the planet.

    I know of no such evolutionary win-win as peppers have pulled off. Genius.

  • M137
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    3 days ago

    “they’ll each other out”

    How has no one commented on this?

    • Blastboom Strice
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      3 days ago

      I wanted to try this, but I dont exactly have a menthol source :/

      (Or do I?)

      Edit: I have a mint mouthwash and spicy cheese paste, hmmm

      Edit2: Well, I took half the dosage of the moutwash and did a flush and then ate the cheese paste with the bread. I dont know if it was the fact that I didnt use enough mouthwash, but the experience was kinda mediocre.

      At first the spicy didnt register, but that might be because for spicy cheese paste it takes a little time to feel the burn. I think I could feel both the icy and the spicy sensations, depending on where I focused, but it wasn’t something amazing (or intense, but that’s probably because both sources were mild). I think the taste that lasted the most is the sweetener from the mouthwash.😅

      Maybe one day I’ll make my cherry juice with menthol and capsaicin.

    • @[email protected]
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      173 days ago

      As someone who loves hot sauce and smokes menthols, I’m dubious. Maybe my hot sauce is too hot, but it will completely negate the menthol. I haven’t tried it with Altoids or anything, but I don’t know…

  • lettruthout
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    553 days ago

    Years ago I did a different version: getting out of a very hot jacuzzi then jumping into a snow bank. 'Worth a try. Once.

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    83 days ago

    I’m love to experience with different heat sensation when cooking. Every pepper is warming slightly differently and you can change the whole tasting experience by change the “heat source” of a dish. Recently, I’ve tasted Sichuan pepper and it what actually cold! And a cold very different from mint. Although round-leave mint and pepper mint (here another plant called pepper that’s cold!) have different sensation as well. I should try experiment with cold as well (*_*)

    • @[email protected]
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      52 days ago

      Spearmint would be good too if you’re going for a slightly sweeter, less intense flavor than peppermint!

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        I didn’t know the english name but this one is very good. A nice balance or freshness and flavor.

  • copandballtorture [ey/em]
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    203 days ago

    Reminds me of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. They have an exhibition that has a long rail with metal coil wrapped around it. On one side, the coils are warm to the touch. On the other side, they’re cold to the touch. In the middle of the rail, the coils alternate hot-cold-hot-cold, and when I first touched it, my reflexes yanked my hand away because the nerves interpreted it as “so hot the ‘burned nerves’ feel cold”. Took a few attempts to be able to hold my hands there, and the sensation was very confusing. Would recommend+

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    73 days ago

    According to this theory, if I make Buldag ramen using boiling Listerine, it will be tasteless.