Best heat killer - avocado?

PepperWhisperer

PepperWhisperer

The other day I had a small inferno raging in my mouth from a nice homegrown caribbean red I ate with lunch. There were a few slices of avocado left over from the earlier prep and I decided they looked tasty. A few chews and down the hatch..and after that the burn was magically doused! 
 
Way more effective than milk, or anything else I have tried. Anyone else tried avocado to ease the burn?
 
One of my best friends is a salsa-and-guacamole magician.  She sometimes makes guac with a pretty good load of piquin peppers, and the heat comes on just for a second before the lawyers[1] cool your mouth down, creating a fun "oh, crap this is hot---oooh, nice" dynamic on the tongue.
 
-NT
 
 
[1] Spanish for "lawyer" is "abogado", so I picked up from somewhere or other the habit of calling avocados "Mexican lawyers".  It seems to make native Hispanophones giggle when they get the pun.
 
ntenny said:
One of my best friends is a salsa-and-guacamole magician.  She sometimes makes guac with a pretty good load of piquin peppers, and the heat comes on just for a second before the lawyers[1] cool your mouth down, creating a fun "oh, crap this is hot---oooh, nice" dynamic on the tongue.
 
-NT
 
 
[1] Spanish for "lawyer" is "abogado", so I picked up from somewhere or other the habit of calling avocados "Mexican lawyers".  It seems to make native Hispanophones giggle when they get the pun.
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Do you happen to have the recipe for the piquin guacamole? I love pequins and would like to try that!
 
TXCG said:
 
Do you happen to have the recipe for the piquin guacamole? I love pequins and would like to try that!
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No, as I say she's sort of a magician and I don't think there is a recipe as such.  Salt, cumin, and lemon juice are all usually involved, and it seems to help a lot to hand-grind the peppers in a molcajete rather than running them through the processor, but it's one of those "put some stuff in, taste, think, add something else, repeat until everything is right" processes.
 
-NT
 
Cheap home made guac. (With sour cream as extender, for those of us not blessed with abundant supply) works very well to mellow a burn.
 
Really nice to take the spike off and allow the flavor through if you want to blend in a super hot to your avacado dip or spread.
 
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