montster Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 today i'm grilling some jamaican jerk pork. last night i was making the marinade and the recipe called for scotch bonnet chile peppers. i'd never heard of them, so i looked them up and saw habanero was nearly the same, so i used those. i failed to read the part in the recipe book that said to de-seed the peppers using a fork and spoon, so as not to get the "virulent juices on your skin." instead, i de-seeded the peppers using my fingers. i washed my hands and went to look something up on the computer. i absent-mindedly began scratching my face and touched my upper lip. a few minutes later parts of my face started burning. the tips of my fingers still burn today. guess i learned the hard way about cutting habanero chiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
untateve Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 I had a friend who grew his own habaneros. He was cutting some up, without gloves. He went to the bathroom. He never ignored gloves again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheikYerbuti Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 About 6 months ago I was mincing some home grown chili peppers (not habaneros, but they're def hotter than jalapenos). I slipped and sliced my finger open with the knife, which was COVERED with the peppers and their juice. That was a bad day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miner Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 It's especially fun when you try take your contacts out after cutting peppers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Dick Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 I rubbed the seeds on my nuts once. Makes me sweat just thinking about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bier Meister Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 yeah.... um... i'd advise you all to use rubber gloves or a ziplock bag when "handling" peppers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montster Posted May 27, 2008 Author Share Posted May 27, 2008 It's especially fun when you try take your contacts out after cutting peppers. this morning when i put my contacts in, i remembered to use my left hand (the one that didn't touch the peppers). as i was putting one of the contacts in, it started to fall, and i reflexively pushed it back on to my finger with my other hand and put the contact in. the contact touched my habanero-stained finger for maybe a millisecond and it still burned like hell. First time I tried to use them, I started mincing them, rather quickly... I had to leave my house for a few hours as I "maced" my kitchen and breathing became difficult. my cousin's husband came over tonight for dinner and i told him about the habaneros. he said he was mixing stuff in a food processor once and threw in a bunch of whole habaneros. when he took the lid off he nearly passed out. on the good side, everyone loved the jerk pork. i suffer for my food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broncosn05 Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 I rubbed the seeds on my nuts once. Makes me sweat just thinking about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detlef Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 God do I have stories about this... One involves a girlfriend hopping out of bed screaming and then hosing out her special place in the shower, cussing me up and down while I sat there trying to talk her off the ledge and trying hard as hell not to chuckle. Others involve cooking large batches of habanero sauce and creating a workplace situation that I doubt OSHA would have approved of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSUChiefsTarheelFan Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 God do I have stories about this... One involves a girlfriend hopping out of bed screaming and then hosing out her special place in the shower, cussing me up and down while I sat there trying to talk her off the ledge and trying hard as hell not to chuckle. Others involve cooking large batches of habanero sauce and creating a workplace situation that I doubt OSHA would have approved of. I think vinegar/lime or lemon juice is supposed to help in this situation, isn't it detlef? Wash your hands in the stuff, and the acids break down the spicy stuff? I think you may have taught me that one....maybe I'm wrong tho.... great story....of course after the fact! I'm sure the water didn't make it feel too much better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiley Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 ALWAYS wear rubber gloves!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chester Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 It's especially fun when you try take your contacts out after cutting peppers. this morning when i put my contacts in, i remembered to use my left hand (the one that didn't touch the peppers). as i was putting one of the contacts in, it started to fall, and i reflexively pushed it back on to my finger with my other hand and put the contact in. the contact touched my habanero-stained finger for maybe a millisecond and it still burned like hell. I was cutting them once and did wash my hands. A while later I cleaned my contacts (rubbing them on my hand with the solution). I put the first one in and the pain was so bad that I couldn't open my eye long enough to get it out. I had to try and relax long enough to peel it open and yank it out through the buckets of tears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montster Posted June 15, 2008 Author Share Posted June 15, 2008 I was cutting them once and did wash my hands. A while later I cleaned my contacts (rubbing them on my hand with the solution). I put the first one in and the pain was so bad that I couldn't open my eye long enough to get it out. I had to try and relax long enough to peel it open and yank it out through the buckets of tears. years ago i saw this comedian on tv. he was talking about some company that made pepper spray that it said was "700 times more effective than mace." the comedian was like, "how do they measure that?" he said they must take a guy, spray mace in his face and ask, "how do you feel?" "aauuugh! that's so painful!" then they douse him with pepper spray and ask, "how do you feel now?" "auuuugh! that's so much more painful!" "how much more?" "like 700 times more!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Holy Roller Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 The bride and I picked about six bushels of jalapenos from our garden one year. About noon we noticed our fingers were quite tingly. That afternoon we were in agony. Tried every remedy we could think of. Called the emergency room. The er doc laughed and laughed. Told us some old Italian housewife remedies. Tried them all. Nuthing. The pain was intensifying if anything after each remedy. Lemon juice only made our hands smell tastier. The ONLY thing that allowed us to even sleep that night was propping a bowl of ice water by the sides of the bed and keeping our hands in them. The next morning our hands were only lethal if we could con someone into licking them. And that was with jalapenos. I cannot imagine what habaneros would do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheikYerbuti Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 The bride and I picked about six bushels of jalapenos from our garden one year. Six bushels? Holy damn, how many plants did you have? How big is your garden? What else are you growing?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Six bushels? Holy damn, how many plants did you have? How big is your garden? What else are you growing?? I'm guessing that they keep the deer out of the green bud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Holy Roller Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Six bushels? Holy damn, how many plants did you have? How big is your garden? What else are you growing?? We had six one acre plots. It was a full time job. Everything from Jerusalem artichokes to zuchinni squash. No hemp related plants allowed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpwallace49 Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 Nice take on the Alabama Hot Pocket! . . . but on the bright side, it killed that nasty yeast infection . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furd Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 It's especially fun when you try take your contacts out after cutting peppers. I did that. Once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Waffle Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 One should wear a Hazmat suit when handling Habeneros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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