These Strange Spicy Food Remedies Can Cool Your Tongue Almost Instantly

When you’re someone who eats spicy food as much as First We Feast’s Sean Evans, you need some serious cures to the heat. Common mouth extinguishers like water, milk, and ice cream work, but the effects only last for so long. Evans is on the hunt for some new relief to help him out on Hot Ones, and he may have found some strange spicy food remedies to cool his tongue almost instantly.

To do this, Evans met up with YouTube channel Vsauce, famous for educational videos on a whole variety of science topics. Host and creator Michael Stevens walks through the science of capsaicin, the compound that provides so much fire, before breaking out his eccentric selection of remedies. Together, Evans and Stevens experiment with gargling olive oil, rum, and lemons to determine if any of them can counteract some intensely spicy dishes.

Afterward, Stevens takes all of his knowledge to create a “secret sundae” that he believes can extinguish the heat of just about anything. It immediately gets put to the ultimate test with The Last Dab, Hot Ones’ signature sauce made with the world’s hottest pepper, Pepper X. Stevens and Sean Evans go in on wings coated with the sauce together before trying out the ice cream concoction, which contains an unexpected and slightly disturbing ingredient.

After watching, you’ll definitely gain some dope knowledge on some new and odd spicy food cures that you may not have had before. However, you may not want to try all of them in public, so definitely consider where you’re at before attempting to cure a massive food heat wave by gurgling a shot of olive oil.