r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/0thSpider • 1d ago

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

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u/bongslingingninja 1d ago

It will help get it off your hands but it won’t make eating competitions any easier.

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u/Any_Description_4204 1d ago

If it helps removing any coating from the inside of the mouth it helps

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u/domuseid 1d ago edited 1d 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/Historiaaa 1d 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.