When we eat something spicy, why does sucking in air through the mouth temporarily subsides the hotness while blowing out makes it much worse?
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So the other answers are both almost right.
A) spicy foods don’t technically activate your heat sensors but what they do is reduce the barrier for them to fire. So basically your body temperature is enough to make it feel like you’re burning.
B) you are warmer than your surroundings, so when you breath in, the air going past your tongue is taking net thermal energy from the tounge and into you. But when you breath out the air is basically the temperature of your core where it has just been, so if anything you’re transferring heat from your body via the air to your tounge.
So, story time. I once cooked with Trinidad moruga scorpion chillies, which were, at the time, the hottest in the world.
I washed my hands 3 times.
I went to the toilet. I touched my dick. It burned. I laughed at my folly. Then it got very bad. OK, best wash it off…..
Essentially this made me spread it all over my cock and balls. I was on fire. So I get in the shower. Now the relevant bit. The water had to be COLD, because even tepid water felt like I was pouring boiling water on my junk. This is because anything warmer than cold would be keeping my junk above this barrier to firing the heat sensors
My partner got me a mug of milk and I bathed my boys in it. But honestly it didn’t really help. Fuck me. That was a wild day.
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