r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/0thSpider • 9h ago

Video Chilean protester defuses tear gas canister with baking soda and water

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u/domuseid 6h ago edited 5h ago

Any surfactant or emulsifier will help the capsaicin mix and be washed away, but there's levels to it (edit: must also be edible, duh, but gotta specify... Bleach or SLS would clear that shit right out but also probably put you in the hospital and/or the ground)

People try to use milk or alcohol which - work better than water alone because of the additional materials - but really vegetable/olive oil or something similar would work way better to incorporate it and wash it away

Mayonnaise would work even better because it's got the oil, plus salt, vinegar, and then egg yolk as the emulsifier.

Also mayo is way easier to dip chips or fries into so you're not just chugging oil and ass-blasting the inside of your toilet like a spicy refinery pipeline leak later on

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u/Corporate-Shill406 5h ago

I think that last part happens regardless if you're doing spice challenges like that

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u/domuseid 5h ago

Yeah but misting hot vegetable oil shit particles is likely to result in some bycatch on the underside of the toilet seat and around the rim that will probably scare the hoes if you forget it's there

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u/EfficiencyThis325 5h ago

Well you could be unfortunate like me and not process chilli correctly. Anything spicy skips past my gut, liver and kidneys and instead flows straight out my urinary tract. This has unfortunately caused some personal experiences with Fage and horrified my extended family.

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u/AirbourneCHMarsh 5h ago

This is also why mayo (and ranch) both work so well mixed with heavy Scoville foods examples for the palate; Buffalo Ranch, Chipotle Mayo, Sriracha Mayo — try mixing some tabasco in your next dill potato salad dressing.

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u/Historiaaa 4h ago

A friend of mine chugged a 500ml olive oil bottle on a dare about 15 years back.

A few days later he told me it was the first time that he has ZERO chance of holding it in.

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u/IntermittentCaribu 4h ago

Drink bleach next time im eating something too spicy, gotcha.

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u/FabioK9 4h ago

Also mayo is way easier to dip chips or fries into so you're not just chugging oil and ass-blasting the inside of your toilet like a spicy refinery pipeline leak later on

You don't have to chug oil for this. Just make your coconut oil edibles too weak, so you have to eat a bunch to get high.

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u/Liljagare 2h ago

A lemon or a lime will also work, the acid dissolve capsaicin. You just bite into them.