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meanwhile chinese cooking: i'll have all 3 at once please
And Indian cooking! Curries are love. Especially with an immersion blender.
And it's so. Damn. Delicious.
Butt also go Brrr after eating to much spicy
You get to enjoy spicy food twice.
Nope, pretty much just the mouth, over here, no butt or tummy brrr-ing.
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HUMANS: Hey peppers, we like what you're doing, a-
PEPPERS: HOW‽‽ IT'S SUPPOSED TO HURT Y-
HUMANS: -nd we wanted to produce as many of you as we can in a controlled environment.
PEPPERS: ... Blinks in disbelief Go on...?
Well, not all of you. We'll massacre and purge your more moderate siblings and cousins, but we really like YOU, so we're gonna clone you as much as we can.
You're welcome.
It's funny if you think about it: Plant makes chemical (capsaicin) to help it thrive > humans love the painful spice, start growing and propagating peppers > Peppers spread grow like crazy. Evolution working exactly as it should
Why is the chili wearing a cape? Or is that... hair?
Does anyone have an explanation for why they would evolve to prevent being eaten by mammals? I would think having mammals help spread their seeds would be beneficial?
Found the answer myself. Protects against fungal attacks. Also birds don't have the same receptors to capsaicin.
Birds eat them without feeling the heat. And they can spread seeds more effectively as you can imagine.
Adding to the other responses, birds have simple digestion systems and the seed makes it into the poop, which birds do in flight so the seed will spread. Mammals digestive systems would destroy the seeds before they can spread
If not delicious then why delicious shaped?
Plant: "I will let you feel pain". Humans: "Jokes on you, I'm into that shit"
Is it ironic that those two sauces aren't really that hot? 😂
Delicious, yes! But very low on the Scoville scale for hot sauce.
Sriracha is now completely random from bottle to bottle. It goes from Tabasco to Carolina Reaper with no visual indicator. Turns out fucking over your loyal farmers and having to constantly scrounge has negative consequences…
Is Tabasco delicious? I find the Sriracha from couple of years ago delicious (the current one is much worse), but Tabasco always tasted like a white vinegar mixed with capsaicin.
Valentina is my favorite. Both the black and yellow labels are good, but I like drenching shit with the yellow (milder one).
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Tabasco sauce, and the peppers, are good for some foods, not so much for others. There is no ULTIMATE hot sauce, just what works.
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the only hot sauce i've yet to actually find appealing is sambal olek, somehow the heat in that just makes me salivate and kinda feels more like sourness, as opposed to everything else where it's just pain and like.. no real flavour? with sambal olek i can actually taste the flavour in it.
Yeah, Tabasco is the weakest link when it comes to hotsauce. Sriracha definitely is a step up, but even that has to move aside for the Buldak Sauce.
Buldak has become my go-to hotsauce. It's so damned good.
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It's sort of what happens though. A plant gets a defense mechanism, it becomes more abundant, something will target that abundant food source.
I will never understand the attraction. I sometimes find Ketchup too spicy.
Some people just like the pain. I don’t mind it spicy, but the flavor is more important to me.
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