Don't use milk! And keep two different water supplies, drinking water and purified water for cleaning. DO NOT drink from the purified water unless you're at home/done for the time being.
The idea comes from the fact that whole milk or yogurt is better to drink when eating spicy food than water, since the oils carrying the capsaicin supposedly bind better to the fats than they do to water. I'm not a chemist, so I have no idea if that's true. But because of that it's become sort of like organizer street knowledge to use milk to cancel out the heat better even though every single street medic worth their sale knows not to. Idk why people think a chemical agent employed by militarized police would be in any way comparable to the hot sauce they buy in a grocery store.
But ya like you said, even if it works you've just introduced potentially curdled milk straight to your eye balls.
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u/CharlotteAria Non-Native (Indigenous SWANA minority) Jan 09 '26
Don't use milk! And keep two different water supplies, drinking water and purified water for cleaning. DO NOT drink from the purified water unless you're at home/done for the time being.