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> if you're dealing with hot peppers, use gloves - they help a lot! In my 20s I on more occasions than I’m prepared to admit, rubbed my eye while cooking with
by dhosek 2y ago
> if you're dealing with hot peppers, use gloves - they help a lot!
In my 20s I on more occasions than I’m prepared to admit, rubbed my eye while cooking with peppers. Then I ran to the bathroom, cupped my hands under the water and splashed water in both eyes. This (obviously, in retrospect) left me painfully blind for about half an hour.
I’d note that gloves would have helped in this scenario only if I was smart enough to take them off before splashing water in my eyes. Which branch of that if statement would have been more likely is left as an exercise for the reader.
- nbk_2000 2y agoRinsing your eye(s) with milk will alleviate the pain far quicker than water. Something I learned googling with one eye open while the other was burning from being touched with a habanero contaminated finger :/
- nox101 2y agoThat might be true for eyes but, ... I cut a bunch of peppers from Sichuan with bare hands. My fingers burned for 3 days. I tried everything multiple times, milk, lemon juice, vinegar, oil, cold water, hot water. Nothing got rid of the burn. They also tasted hot for 3 days
- ricketyricky 2y ago[dead]
- chias 2y agoIn my 30s on EXACTLY ONE occasion I was chopping a bunch of peppers and then went to the bathroom to pee. I have worn gloves each and every time since, when dealing with more than 2 or 3 peppers at habanero heat or above.
- richardw 2y agoI had contacts when I was younger. I never figured out how to not have them hurt when putting them in the day after working with chili. Gloves are a good idea but this was usually some random place I’d be cutting them with friends.
- indoordin0saur 2y agoI cut ghost peppers once by hand and the cuticles around my finger nails were burning for days afterwards. It was more annoying than painful though.