week old chili, do you eat it?

it was good when it was fresh...

  • InsideOutsideCatside [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    eh it was okay but I also ate it on a bed of plain white rice so it wasn't exactly flavor country. And tbh I didn't get a "wow so much better" effect the day after it was cooked. And it seemed less spicy? I had trouble the first night even with milk to assuage the capsaicin pain, the next day it was no probalo

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I had trouble the first night even with milk to assuage the capsaicin pain, the next day it was no probalo

      you probably adapted

    • LeninsBeard [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Things generally become less spicy as they sit in the fridge so that checks out. Also Kenji (my muse) made a video recently where he talked about how the idea that things like stew or chili taste better the next day is a myth. The reason people think that is because when you eat it the day of, you generally have been smelling it for a while so your nose has adapted to it and you don't get the taste as strong. If you eat it the next day you get the fill olfactory experience.