"They're only jalapeños"
 

I was canning pickled jalapeños bare handed this afternoon.

MrsWD said, "You ought to be wearing gloves yanno."
Ha! I'm a manly man. So I told her, "They're only jalapeños!"

So long story short, as I soon discovered, I'll be wearing gloves when I use the restroom for the next few days. :o:o

I was once eating salted hot Jalapeno peanuts in the shell.
Had an itch around my eye and decided to use my finger.

Never have one of my eyes burn so badly.

Took 5 minutes of rinsing it out before I could use it.

One of the first lessons I learned as a young inexperienced natural product (essential oils) chemist was to make sure I THOROUGHLY washed my hands before having a wee.

You just never know how hot a jalapeno is going to be. I went to a Mexican restaurant with a bunch of coworkers once. The place brought out a tray with a bunch of stuff including sliced pickled and fresh Jalapenos. Several guys started moaning about how hot the Jalapenos were. I was curious, so I grabbed one, and tried a tiny bit, then a bit more and eventually popped the whole thing in my mouth. Nothing, it may as well have been a banana pepper. One of the guys didn't believe me, so I grabbed another slice that looked like the previous slide and popped it in my mouth. Holy Guacamole! That one was hot, reallly hot, damn HOT! My mouth burned for a long time. When the food finally arrived, just putting the warm food in my mouth was still almost too much. I don't think I tasted any of the meal.

I was also surprised years ago, crushing and peeling garlic in a kitchen in Spain (so A LOT of garlic) that by the time I was done, my fingers were on fire.

My curiosity is piqued. What did you do with essential oils?

I was a gas chromatography tech doing incoming analysis on the oils. The company used them in a range of products from flavoring to air fresheners. Later on, after I gained some proficiency I got into development support. There I did analyses supporting our focus groups research. My first big project was to take a peppermint essential oil and assay a series of oils each with a reduced number of components in order to to create one that tasted the same but was much cheaper to produce.

flatbutt you have an important job IMO.
The ex had bought one of those sticks/jar which hangs on the wall which I kept because it looked pretty. It was there for over a decade. Something happened with the oxidation of the oils and they turned pretty nasty over time. I was wondering about the pets and myself being sick, took a wiff, gagged, and into the round file it went.
Not something I'd normally think about.

Very cool, thanks.

One day a guy where I worked brought a bottle of ghost pepper sauce and left it on the lunch room table. Another guy comes, sits down, picks up the bottle to look at the label, sets it down then touches the corner of his eye.
It was on then! The tears, the snot, the purple face the cries of pain... he had to be taken to the nurse to get flushed out.

If you gots a poison oak rash.....never touch or scratch your winky....

It just isn't your eyes. In the '60s I was making a round of clubs in Tujuana with a couple of other guys. On the way back to the border, we stopped at a hole-in-the-wall torta shop where I ate two tortas (25 cents each). The guy also set a small bowl of jalapenos down with each torta, which I ate all of. The next morning when I went, bleery eyed, into the bathroom and sat down, I let out a healthy moan of pain.

I've always liked Jalapeños But Wasabi mustard? ... "Fumes out the nose WOW" :(

LOL! Dont rub your eyes cholo!:D

Didnt wash my hands once thoroughly after handling some jalepenos.

Put in my contacts.

The problem there beyond the obvious is your eyes will instinctively clamp shut tighter than a crabs ass making removing offending objects near impossible.

That was a fun day.

Jalapenos dont typically bother me. sure, i rub my eyes and there's that moment where i regret it. but it passes.

i dont wear gloves.

north of that, yes. well, north of a serrano pepper. i am fairly tolerant. gloves are a PIA

When I was a puppy and under age 35, I could handle hat spicy foods just fine. My mom's chili won the blue ribbon and gold medal for the best chili at the Oklahoma State fair. It was free of any beans, and just stirring the pot would make me sweat. As a kid, I loved it, as a geezer (over 35) I had to have a bottle of Maalox after a bowl of he chili. Now I am a total wimp, and just don't like the pain and suffering hot foods provide.

One of my former coworkers was nuts for hot foods. One of his favorite snacks was a Tabasco sandwich. He would get a piece of bread, and saturate it with Tabasco, and use two other pieces of bread to hold it to eat it. He bought Tabasco by the gallon jug.

err.. you wouldnt have that chili recipe written down anywhere would you?!

i remember my first jalapeno. like it was yesterday. 4th grade. my buddy Oscar. he would bring a sandwich or burrito in a lunch box. everyday he had a jalapeno. he would break a package of salt. the tiny package you break open. pour out a pile, and bite the end off a fresh pepper and dip the exposed end into the salt. and eat. i was blown away and he brought me one the next day. with my own salt pack. it was so effen hot!! but i loved it. his mom was so surprised with me. tiny chinese kid with a hot streak food love. i was hooked.

(craziest thing about Oscar. he could hold his hands together behind his back, and then bring his hands in front of him by swinging them over his head..without releasing his hand grip. in handcuffs he could bring his hands in front of himself in an instant)

I was thinking the same thing. I'm always up for another chili recipe.

This reminded me of the Youtube series "Hot Ones" where they eat hot wings with different sauces. The one with Gordon Ramsay is good along with the Will Ferrell episode....

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When I was in 1st grade, my family lived on Okinawa. The Korean family that lived next door had a pepper plant in their garden with little bitty peppers. My older brothers dared me to eat one. I have not forgiven them for that yet over 60 years later.

When I was in the Army in Germany I was taking the bus over to my girlfriend's house for Christmas. I had earlier purchased a little plant pruned in the shape of a Christmas tree that had tiny red peppers sprouting all over like little Christmas ornaments.

Well, I'm riding along in the bus and had the great idea to pull off one of the small peppers and pop it in my mouth. Holy crap it was hot! My mouth was on fire! I had to get off the bus at a Gasthaus and guzzle a half litre of bier before it was manageable.

poison ____ is not spread from the rash.

poison ____ rashes come from getting urushiol oil (from the plant) on your skin. If you get it on your skin and wash it off thoroughly and immediately, you are unlikely to get it or at least, it'll be much less severe. Assuming you get it on your hands, and then wash your hands throroughly 4 hours later, anything that you touched in that 4 hours is likely to get some transfer. If you touched your phone, you can continue to get it from your phone until it's all been wiped/cleaned from your phone (days?).

So, if you got it on your hands, then touched your winky 4 hours later and then washed after touching your winky, then you got the oil on your winky.

Also, different skin (like your winky) will react differently from other skin, ie, winky, face, arm, palm of hand, etc... will all react differently and the rash can take longer to show up in different spots.

So, if you got the rash on your arm, and then got it on your winky a day or two later, that could either be due to a secondary transfer of oil from something after the initial exposure (from a pair of loppers or a weedeater handle or your dogs fur) or it could be due to your winky being tougher skin than your arm that reacts more slowly.

If you get some on you, and then you take a very thorough bath, and you don't come back in contact with the oil at another time, then it won't spread from spot to spot.

Just FYI.

Yeah, I used to work with a guy that loved all things spicy, like jalapeño-type spicy. He and I went to a Chinese restaurant together once. I told him, "since you love spicy, you'll love this stuff." and urged him to dip the crab puffs or egg rolls or something like that into the spicy mustard. Yeah, he was not a fan. Very different kind of "spicy."

mustard, horseradish, wasabi, not the same as jalapenos, habaneros, etc.... I hadn't ever really thought about before that someone would be OK with one type, but not the other. My dad and myself would eat either.

I think some folks like the pain. I like spicy food, but I want mild-moderate discomfort not pain. I still want to be able to taste the food.

I've eaten with folks where I swear they were just trying to appear manly or something.

Folks become addicted to it as the body releases endorphins. They get a powerful rush out of it.

^^

So that’s what they get out of it. I’ve seen guys eat peppers that were so hot it would overwhelm any actual flavor. I like spicy food, but the heat needs to compliment the other flavors and not overwhelm them.

^^^ Agree. Some spice is ok...too much just masks the foods flavor.

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The aftermath

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Ya bunch of sissies crying over getting stung by wee jalapeños…

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The scorpion pepper is second only to the Carolina Reaper. Has a great slow and long burn, and a bit of a fruity layer underneath. Great on bratwurst, meatloaf and chili.

The first bottle has scorpion cut with habanero and ghost (jolokia) pepper to produce a smoother texture. Fantastic on meatloaf.

Yes - I run with the big boys. Some of my friends from India can’t even keep up!

BTW - If you think jalapeños sting your eye, try fresh habaneros in there. Showered for 20 minutes to get the sting outta my face!

Absolutely - it is all about who is more of a man when it comes to eating spicy fūd. Especially during a work luncheon. Ego. It’s all about the male ego.

And there’s always a newbie trying to prove himself who gets in over his head and must down a gallon of milk to squelch the burn.

You have to build up a tolerance to the hot stuff - and then you can actually appreciate the flavor behind the heat. Different peppers have different flavors for certain.

fiji jungles peppers made me foam at the mouth for 15 minutes.

Hot Wild Pepper | The hottest peppers are from the Fiji Islands!

There’s a Netflix series called The Champions or something and they show stoopid or weird contests such as...eating hot peppers. The peppers episode had a pretty good segment on the hotness scale.

To me it’s like putting acid in your mouth.

No thanks.

The biggest question to me is ....Why???

I have. That’s why I said, “They’re only jalapeños.” Get it?

Guilty... Im one of those freaks that loves the hot stuff. Hotter the better. Gotta agree with Jolly's post. It is kind of a rush i guess.
Most painful stuff i had was a Carolina Reaper sauce i had last month at a beer fest. Came close to heaving it was so bad. Loved it!!:D

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I don't remember when this was - two or three years ago - but I was getting ready to grind dried habaneros. You need the goggles and a mask and gloves for that job.

It was probably nearly 40 years ago, I was a little guy with a little garden. In my garden I grew several different kinds of peppers. We ended up with a ton of cayenne peppers. Then my dad strung them and dried them. Once they were deemed dry enough, he put them in the blender and pulsed them until they were crushed red pepper. Then he took the lid off the blender and allowed the aerosolized oils and dust to float around our townhouse. My mom and I ended up outside in the back yard, crying, noses running, coughing. Dad was inside opening doors and windows trying to air the place out. We actually had the pepper for a while, but that was pretty funny.

Similar event, when I was in my 20s and a bartender, we got a popcorn machine. It was similar to what they have at a theater, but smaller. It was a hit. I have no idea why/how, it was probably a customer that requested it, but one time I put a bunch of tabasco in with the oil and kernels while they were popping. Yes, similar experience, coughing, running nose, itchy eyes from anyone that was too near the bar for too long. It was however the best popcorn I've ever had. putting hot sauce on popcorn after it's popped just makes it cold and soggy, but putting it in while it's popping imparts heat and flavor.

Now I sprinkle chipotle powder on top of microwave popcorn and then shake up the bag. It gives it a smoky, spicy zing.

Ever since hot peppers caused me to suffer some kind of "GI seizure" I politely decline. It was like having a very violent fit of hiccups accompanied by difficulty breathing and profuse sweating. It truly sucked.