10 Ways to Cool a Burning Mouth After Eating Spicy Foods, Ranked

By: Michelle No

Some activities in life cause sharp and immediate harm, like any social media actions taken between 1:30am and 5am, for example. Yet not engaging in them, isn’t reality at all.

And so it is with eating hot sauce. Objectively, consuming any form of spicy food is a painful experience, but a kitchen without Tabasco? That would be a special kind of hell – at least in my opinion.

To help eaters everywhere cope with this oxymoronic addiction, we swigged some Frank’s RedHot and tested 10 of the most commonly suggested remedies for a burning-hot tongue.

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