All Minecraft Potions Are Spicy: An Essay
I came to this realization when writing a MCYT fanfiction where the cubito is an alchemist right
Milk cancels out all potions. Milk also cancels out spicy food irl
Spiciness is caused by the presence of the chemical capsaicin, which is most commonly found in various peppers, and is cancelled out by the protein casein that is found in natural animal milks (please forgive my rudimentary Googling science for these terms not being 100% scientifically accurate.)
Therefore, for Minecraft potions to be cancelled out by milk, they must likely include capsacin! (It's probable that for the actual effects to be cancelled out, the effects' activation process probably is tied to capsacin, but this is getting out of the realm of Quick Google Research.)
Now, ALL Minecraft potions are cancelled out by milk. So it has to be a common factor in the brewing process for ALL potions.
Now, the only true two shared ingredients in all potions are water (probably not spicy unless allergic) or blaze powder. I first thought it could possibly be nether wart, as a plant-like from the Nether dimension, except weakness potions do NOT use netherwart! They're the only potion not to, as they are made from pure water. Therefore, blaze powder is the universal spicy factor in Minecraft.
By this conclusion, we can assume blazes produce capsacin, and it is at least partially stored in their rods, as that is where the powder is crafted from.
I now want to see Minecraft people use blaze powder in cooking as a seasoning. Would cooking with a blaze rod- either as a tool, or like bay leaves where you take them out later- infuse more spicy into a dish? Does blaze powder add in specific color to a dish? Is adding blaze powder to an otherwise-normal dish a common prank? Are alchemists and witches nearly immune to the spiciness of potions after working with the ingredients for so long, they've developed a spicy tolerance? Do splash potions cause people to tear up from the capsacin that's been areolized? If glowstone increases the potency of potions, would it also increase the spiciness? Is glowstone dust edible?
THIS IS A WHOLE NEW WORLDBUILDING THING TO EXPLORE, MINECRAFT PEOPLE HAVE A COOKING SPICE!!
