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your works of nature are unnatural ([personal profile] ciaan) wrote2013-06-09 11:05 am
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Poll on hot food

Because people will call something "spicy yet delicious" and I never knew what that meant. The burning pain covers up all the sensations.

Poll #13665 Hot and Spicy
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 25

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Which ingredients count to make food hot or spicy?

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capsicum/chili peppers
25 (100.0%)

black pepper
17 (68.0%)

ginger
8 (32.0%)

garlic
4 (16.0%)

wasabi
23 (92.0%)

asafoetida
2 (8.0%)

coriander seed
1 (4.0%)

cilantro leaf
1 (4.0%)

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[personal profile] alexseanchai 2013-06-09 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I have only heard of asafoetida, never tried it, and the context in which I heard of it suggests I never want to. I can't remember ever having something containing coriander, though it's in our spice shelf so I probably have at some point.

Ginger and garlic are spices, but they don't make things spicy. Cilantro's an herb.
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[personal profile] ciaan 2013-06-19 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Asafoetida is very bitter.
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[personal profile] cathexys 2013-06-09 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Couldn't answer on "asafoetida," because i don't know the taste. I was uncertain about your question, bc I don't use ginger and garlic for the explicit purpose of making the food hotter, but when used in decent amounts, it will be hotter, if that makes sense...
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[personal profile] ciaan 2013-06-19 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
The only thing that makes food hot aka bad is chili pepper. All others are yummy flavors.
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[personal profile] melannen 2013-06-09 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Chili is the only one of those that I would say makes food 'hot'.

Black pepper, ginger, garlic, and coriander make it 'spicy' but not hot.

asafoetida and wasabi I've never knowingly eaten enough of to say.

Cilantro is sort of bitter-ish to me, not spicy.
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[personal profile] ciaan 2013-06-19 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
The only thing that makes food hot aka bad is chili pepper. All others are yummy flavors.
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[personal profile] tsuki_no_bara 2013-06-09 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"hot/spicy" to me usually means either "wow there's a lot of hot pepper/chili pepper in this" or "it's too spicy for me to determine exactly what spices there are". or "well i need a glass of milk now"....
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[personal profile] ciaan 2013-06-19 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
The only thing that makes food hot aka bad is chili pepper. All others are yummy flavors.
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[personal profile] pouncer 2013-06-10 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Cilantro leaf makes food taste like soap, which is much worse than making it spicy!
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[personal profile] ciaan 2013-06-19 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
For you!
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