Word to the wise

[unixronin]

This may come as an unexpected revelation, but when you're picking through and de-seeding a bunch of dried chile peppers, and you manage to drive a sharp shard of hardened dried chile up under your nail and into the nail bed, IT REALLY @&$#(*&$($#$%@$ HURTS, and continues to do so well after you dig the *@#&$*&%*&#$%% shard out.

Capsaicin .... the gift that just keeps right on giving.

Comments

[glitch25.livejournal.com]

in more ways than one.

My favorite is not washing my hands quite well enough after having cleaned roasted green chile, and having an intimate evening after dinner.. Gives that heating body oil a run for its money. :-)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah. Capsaicin and tender bits do not mix well. :)

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

My (ex)brother-in-law had suicide wings one night. And then proceeded to an intimate encounter with his girlfriend (who I despise). She couldn't sit right for a few days. I laughed.

Learn from that what you will.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

/me giggles insanely :)

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

As did I. Except I had to pretend to hide it.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

ooh yeah, gives bamboo splinter torture a whole new dimension

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I wonder if it would help

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

to soak that finger in a saltwater solution? A bit of salt sprinkled on the tongue tends to put "mouthfire" out.

Re: I wonder if it would help

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I've always heard sugar for that purpose. (The original definition of the Scoville heat unit was based on how much sugar water it took to neutralize.)

In any case, it cooled off about 20 minutes after I managed to dig the shard out, and is just slightly sore now.

Re: I wonder if it would help

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

Capsaicin binds to dairy fats, so that always works well to help quench things (use whole cream or homogenized milk, rather than skim or 2%).

Re: I wonder if it would help

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

We don't buy skim milk (not for drinking, anyway). It tastes like chalkwater.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Um, dude?

Don't do that, then.

/me runs

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

DUH. :)

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

All the more reason for me to avoid hot peppers of any kind. I do all the cooking in the house.
Capsaicin is nasty stuff.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I think it's great stuff. Sucks to get it in tender bits or an open wound though.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, don't peel fresh roasted green chile and then rub your eyes, either.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I've inadvertently done that a few times after crumbling dried Thai chilis or after preparing fresh habañeros. AFTER having washed my hands with Simple Green.

As commented elsewhere, be careful of other tender bits too.

[smandal.livejournal.com]

My family and I sit down to lunch one weekend when I was in high school.

Suddenly, a squirrel starts banging on our kitchen sliding glass door. It had a certain desperate look in its eyes. We're like, WTF? We throw him a pizza crust, and munched it down right in front of us; it looked a bit relieved, and ran off.

After finishing our meal, we go out onto the deck, and find that half the chilies on our chili plants are gone.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Heh. Best squirrel story I've got is watching one pick up a wild mushroom and do a high speed twirl of the stem in his paws while he nibbled the crown.