"I am a jalapeno on a stick!"
Oct. 12th, 2006 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fairyruneI really need to invest in some latex gloves. (No, not for that. Get your mind out of the gutter!)
Rich and I made burritos from scratch last night. My special recipe includes a jalapeno pepper, which I cut up by hand. I've done this several times, and every time, I manage to get acidy juice where I don't want it. One time, I was merrily chopping away, and the damn pepper was so juicy that it squirted right in my eye!
Last night I was super careful. I chopped the pepper without incident, placed it in the pan, and washed my hands. I thought I was free and clear, and more importantly safe, from the evil tasty burning acid.
Hours later, after consuming delicious delicious burritos and washing up yet again, I touched my eye. It BUUUUUUUURRRRNED! I was not pleased. Why must the delicious fruit hurt me so?
So I've decided to purchase some latex gloves before the next time I need to chop a hot pepper. I can get purple ones for fourteen bucks, but I'm fairly certain I could get less-pretty ones for cheaper elsewhere. I just have to find the powder-less kind, because getting glove-powder in your food would NOT be good eats.
Rich and I made burritos from scratch last night. My special recipe includes a jalapeno pepper, which I cut up by hand. I've done this several times, and every time, I manage to get acidy juice where I don't want it. One time, I was merrily chopping away, and the damn pepper was so juicy that it squirted right in my eye!
Last night I was super careful. I chopped the pepper without incident, placed it in the pan, and washed my hands. I thought I was free and clear, and more importantly safe, from the evil tasty burning acid.
Hours later, after consuming delicious delicious burritos and washing up yet again, I touched my eye. It BUUUUUUUURRRRNED! I was not pleased. Why must the delicious fruit hurt me so?
So I've decided to purchase some latex gloves before the next time I need to chop a hot pepper. I can get purple ones for fourteen bucks, but I'm fairly certain I could get less-pretty ones for cheaper elsewhere. I just have to find the powder-less kind, because getting glove-powder in your food would NOT be good eats.
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Date: 2006-10-12 04:43 pm (UTC)for soap use LAVA soap . Home depot or Lowes should have it.
and
http://www.drugstore.com/qxp83095_334918_sespider/safeskin/latex_free_and_powder_free_purple_nitrile_gloves.htm
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And before you ask... trampoline.
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Date: 2006-10-12 04:55 pm (UTC)Anything you want purple, they've got it. Even a $300 purple four slice toaster! Why anyone would want to pay that much for a toaster, I will never know, but they have it.
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Date: 2006-10-12 05:02 pm (UTC)One time I was making a pot of chili, and I cut up some habanero peppers. Y'know, the kind that are 50 times hotter than jalapenos? Well, I washed my hands, thinking all was good. Then I went to the bathroom. There is no pain quite like that.
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Date: 2006-10-12 08:21 pm (UTC)J.
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Date: 2006-10-12 06:07 pm (UTC)And dude, I love people as much as everyone else, but when I go to that website I always feel a little more gay (in the fun way XD)
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Date: 2006-10-12 06:29 pm (UTC)A Story of Hot Peppers
Date: 2006-10-12 06:14 pm (UTC)Consequently, he loves making chili. He will spend hours contemplating just the right amount and kind of peppers, which kind of meat to use, etc.
One fine day, our friend Twyg (he used to work for Geoff at Wolfgaard Armory) came over with some little red peppers he had grown himself, and he and Frank set out to make some hellishly hot chili. Frank got scotch bonnets, and other ridiculously hot things, and the boys took over the kitchen.
Afterwards, Frank scrubbed his hands with that Lava soap multiple times to get the pepper oils off his skin.
Later that night, we went to bed, and began to do what married people do in bed. All of a sudden, I said to him, "did you wash your hands?" and he said, "yeah, like 15 times." As I leapt from the bed and ran to the bathroom, I called behind me, "well, THAT WASN'T ENOUGH!!"
I ended up rinsing my privates in a bowl of milk before the burning subsided. Needless to say, Mr. Chili Maker didn't get any scootie that night.
Postscript: about 15 minutes after me and my sore va-jay-jay came back to bed, Frank got up to go to the bathroom. I heard him start to pee, and then exclaim, "YOU WEREN'T EXAGGERATING!" (In his tiredness, he had forgotten that the whole thing started with his hands. Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but in my world it's spicy.)
The next day, we bought a box of gloves from Home Depot, and he's never made chili without them since.
Re: A Story of Hot Peppers
Date: 2006-10-12 06:30 pm (UTC)...
I mean, oh, you poor poor thing! The bit about Frank is still funny, though. :)
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Date: 2006-10-12 06:54 pm (UTC)Re: A Story of Hot Peppers
Date: 2006-10-12 09:50 pm (UTC)Re: A Story of Hot Peppers
Date: 2006-10-12 06:52 pm (UTC)nice Grey's Anatomy reference by the way.
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Date: 2006-10-12 06:38 pm (UTC)Just be thankful it wasn't a habanero. I got that shit in my eye once. I swore I was gonna go blind.
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Date: 2006-10-12 08:10 pm (UTC)yeah, I hated cutting onions on the deli slicer...
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Date: 2006-10-12 11:49 pm (UTC)Anyways, as to the gloves. If you want cheap ones, I'm finding some of the online discounted science supply places have cheap ones. I know at least of the catalogs I just got at school have gloves in them and were cheaper than normal. Yes you can buy them at the store as well(and Sam's club as BIG boxes, but to save $$ need to buy lots of them). Anyways, I am putting some orders in soon for science supplies (lol, joys of being a science teacher I get to play with stuff!!) so if you want a box let me know. I can get a box of small, lol and maybe even purple ones too :)
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Date: 2006-10-13 01:08 pm (UTC)::puts down the knife::
::lowers wrists::
...Oh. Good!