Best beverage for spicy foods?

[Voltron87]

What is the best beverage for eating spicy foods? The irish side of me doesn't react well to it. I pretty much cried when I ate one of the hot peppers in my chinese food. less crying than tearing, but still. Do any drinks dullen the taste in between bites?

[pearljam]

I remember a few yuears ago watching on the food network that milk and alcohol both take the sting out of spicy foods in between bites.

[ewile]

Some people say bread. Some say milk...some say water. I like cold beer.

[Hiding]

Tequila

[Chairman Wood]

It depends on what other foods are with the spice. However if you are dealing with just full out spice and desire only to cool your mouth down the best beverage is milk. I was at the Miami University for a Rugby match a few years ago. At the after party, often a man of the match is selected and this time I was him. Usually you get a T-shirt or something from the other team and the home team dictates some sort of silly ritual that you must do after you are presented with your prize. We, just simply made the person drop their shorts and chug a beer whenever we were hosts. They, on the other hand, cut the top off a jalepeno pepper, carved out the inside, filled it with dried chili peppers, added some additional hot sauce and made you eat one along with the man of the match from their team. Apparently they've done this a lot, have done their research and had milk ready for us afterwards. Eating that was extremely painful. I can honestly say I would rather take a kick to the nuts then go through that again.

[miajag81]

Milk is the correct answer...if you don't like milk, then water.

[swede123]

Newcastle is the correct choice.

Swede

[Voltron87]

so milk it is. i'll try cold beer as well.

the dish i was eating was grilled port, some pork, some leek and onion, other good stuff, with 1-2 hot peppers. the peppers are green and have little white circle thingies (these are spicy) inside. I ate one by accident. ow. it wasnt as bad as what you have, but it was hard. as i was swallowing it literally burned my mouth, and i... cried a bit.

[MrWookie47]

Most spiciness is in food from some sort of an oil. In order to get it out of your mouth, you need something that dissolves oil. Everyone knows oil and water don't mix, so you have to use something else. Alternatively, milk has fat in it, and fat is just the ticket (oil = fat). Also, ethanol in beer will do the same thing.

I'm not the biggest drinker of IPA's, but for some reason, I find that spicy food and an IPA are a match made in heaven. Tastes good, and the alcohol moderates the spice.

[jakethebake]

crackers, bread, etc is better than a beverage.