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What can you do to soften the spiciness of Thai food?

By Submitted Message
Posted in Reader question
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May 2, 2019

Dear readers,

I myself am a man who likes a little spicy food. Sometimes I want to try new Thai dishes (sometimes I can't resist). What happens to me regularly is that the dish is too hot. Now, here's the thing, if I've eaten too hot, the best thing that helps for my person is to eat cucumber to soften the spiciness.

Now I have heard that people also use pineapple.

What helps you to mitigate this?

Regards,

Erwin

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11 responses to “What can you do to soften the spiciness of Thai food?”

  1. Peter (formerly Khun) says up
    2 May 2019 at 08: 30

    Milk. Milk contains the protein casein. When you take a sip of milk, the casein binds to the hot culprit capsai and then washes it away. So: milk extinguishes spicy food.

    • Erwin Fleur says up
      2 May 2019 at 12: 50

      Dear Peter,

      It would indeed be the case, but in my person this does not work as well as cucumber.
      Or I really burned my lead pipe 555.
      Yours faithfully,

      Erwin

  2. bert says up
    2 May 2019 at 09: 57

    My wife also often drinks a carton of milk if she has eaten too spicy.
    I myself stick to a sip of cold water or a spoonful of sugar.
    However, if I have doubts about the spiciness of the food, I first taste a little bit and if it is too spicy, I skip a round. Doesn't happen that often, I can eat quite spicy for a falang.

    • Martin says up
      2 May 2019 at 11: 26

      Water is not a very good tip for peppers. Your brain screams water, but sometimes water makes it worse.

      Rice, milk, or fat are better options.

      • Hans says up
        3 May 2019 at 05: 05

        Correct. water spreads the pepper pop resulting in a larger surface area to worry about. Milk is the cure or alternatively just bite the bullet and push your limits 😀

  3. henny says up
    2 May 2019 at 12: 14

    Drink milk!
    Or add some honey or sweet ketchup to the food.

  4. HansNL says up
    2 May 2019 at 14: 07

    My nickname in friends and family is Farang Isan.
    Just because I'm joining the club for dinner, whatever it is.
    Sometimes, with very spicy food, it really seems as if I've been to the dentist who, in a funny mood, has emptied the syringe in the whole mouth.
    Then it's just a matter of patience, that feeling will disappear within ten minutes.
    To avoid really spicy dishes and not be seen as a wimp, I have a jar of garlic chili sauce from Lee Kum Kee, a great sambal substitute, by the way, diluted with tomato ketchup, and mixed with the rice gives a look of a dish from hell.
    Everyone is totally impressed, and I just chuckle.

    But, sugar helps, a lick of honey ditto, cucumber, coconut water, there are various remedies, just try out what helps.

    • Erwin Fleur says up
      2 May 2019 at 17: 24

      Dear HansNL,

      Nice to read your experience with spicy food.
      I have never heard of coconut water, although I really like it.

      I'm not much of a spicy eater myself, but I can't keep my hands off it.
      Sambal is indeed a great substitute, but when I see food on the street I want it
      tasting it with all the explosive detonations in my mouth, in the morning on the toilet
      I rise half a meter.

      Yours faithfully,

      Erwin

  5. Henk says up
    2 May 2019 at 14: 13

    The most important thing is of course to take it easy with the chilis, if there are 8 on the recipe you start with 4 or 5 first. The next time you make the same recipe again, you will know roughly what you need to make it "nicely" spicy. Don't act like a Thai and use 16 instead of the prescribed 8 and then almost cry and shout : ::: PIT PIT PIT PIT .. I assume it is also the intention that you taste something of your new recipe. Incidentally, what goes in TOO hot above is really not extinguished if it has to leave the body again below, so 2 times suffer.

  6. Gerrit says up
    2 May 2019 at 14: 39

    What sometimes helps me is sugar, for example from a sugar bag, which also relieves quite a bit of spicy food

  7. Jacob says up
    3 May 2019 at 02: 51

    Cola with ice while eating…or indeed sweetened with honey or sugar
    Why do you think sugar is such a common ingredient?

    I am of Indian origin, I have not yet seen my homemade sambal Thai
    eating without a look of surrender….hehehe


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