Add extra rice to your plate to dilute the effect of hot sauce.
There are some people who can pour liberal amounts of hot sauce on their food and eat it with gusto. If you are not one of those people, but are sensitive to hot sauce, you might prefer to have a less extreme taste sensation. Protect your taste buds by diluting the taste of hot sauce while preserving the essence of the flavor. You can still enjoy spicy foods, and your mouth won't feel like a raging inferno.
Instructions
1. Set aside extra plain pasta sauce, when you are preparing a spaghetti dish, before adding any hot sauce. When it's time to serve, spoon only 1/2 or 1/3 of the spicy pasta sauce on your spaghetti. Then spoon some non-spicy sauce on top, and mix it together. This will dilute the taste of the hot sauce in your meal.
2. Pour about half of the recommended serving of hot sauce in a small bowl. Pour in an equal amount of fresh filtered water and mix it up with a spoon or just swirl it around. Put a little bit of this mixture on whatever food you are eating, and test to see if you have sufficiently diluted the taste. If it's still a little too hot, add a little more water until you get the heat you like. It might turn out that you only want a few drops of hot sauce in 1 tbsp. of water.
3. Put an extra serving of cooked rice on your plate or in your bowl when eating spicy Chinese, Indian, Mexican or other cuisine that uses hot sauce. You can also put extra rice inside your burrito. The rice will absorb the hot sauce and lessen the effect of its heat.
4. Add extra plain tomato juice to your bloody Mary to dilute the amount of hot sauce in the drink. This will tone down the heat, but it will still taste and look like a cocktail.
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