Chill Eating

 Chill Eating

Aim:

To find out how long it takes to reduce the spice after eating chili.

Research:

Equipment:

• Hot sauce
• Milk, Coke, and Water
• Toothpick
• Stopwatch

Instructions:

1. Get Equipment

2. Dip the toothpick in the hot sauce

3. Suck the hot sauce off the toothpick 

4. Start timer

5. Stop timing when the burning reduces

6. write down the time that you get 

7. put some more hot sauce on your tongue 

8. but this time wait for the burning to start then drink one of the liquids 

9. then start the timer

10. repeat the instructions again

Results:

It was very painful for my tongue but I really enjoyed this experiment. It was the most painful experiment by far that I have done in science.

The time it took to stop the burning 

Just Chili: 50 secs Water: 12 secs Coke: 11 secs Milk: 7 secs

Conclusion :

I found out that milk is the best to stop the burning

Discussion :

Why does chili burn your mouth and why does milk stop it? 

Chili burns your mouth because the capsaicin is released into your saliva and then binds on to receptors in your mouth and tongue and the milk stops it because many milk products contain casein, and casein stops the spice.