jalepeno skin burns

[my-thyme]

OK, let me start off saying I don't wear gloves for anything - gardening, dishwashing, motorcycle riding - just can't get good enough a feel for it with gloves on.

So, lots of tomatoes from the garden, time to make salsa!

Diced about 70 jalepenos for the salsa, which I do every summer with little ill effects. But this year, about an hour after I'm done, my hands are ON FIRE!!!

Goggled jalepeno skin burns (with my fingers on fire!) - and came up with some of the most hilarious forum entries I've read in a long time!

Jalapeno Pepper Burn Treatment

I took a number of their suggestions and made my own fix - worked like a charm!

GoJo hand cleaner - rinse - liquid Dawn - rinse. Repeat three times.
Aloe Vera sunburn gel - allow to dry. Repeat twice.



Glad I decided to try this before I got to the suggestion to pee on my hands - plenty of people swore that worked for them (other than the guy that set his penis on jalapeno fire!).






Oh yeah, got 10 half-pints of salsa canned up for the winter

 

[frozenrain]

I think the more times you cut Jalapenos with bare hands the less they seem to burn.I think your skin gets resistant to Jalapeno burn.
The first time my hands were burning for hours.Now it does not bother me.

Your Salsa sounds lovely mmmmmmm.
However best not to eat too many as you can still get Jalapeno burn somewhere else.Like the time I eat 16 whole ones in one day....

 

[JLS]

We eat poppers (the kind w/o breading around it) every week and we make about 40-60 at a time and eat all of em.. I luv em

I think the more times you cut Jalapenos with bare hands the less they seem to burn.I think your skin gets resistant to Jalapeno burn.
The first time my hands were burning for hours.Now it does not bother me.

Your Salsa sounds lovely mmmmmmm.
However best not to eat too many as you can still get Jalapeno burn somewhere else.Like the time I eat 16 whole ones in one day....

 

[toppick08]

OK, let me start off saying I don't wear gloves for anything - gardening, dishwashing, motorcycle riding - just can't get good enough a feel for it with gloves on.

So, lots of tomatoes from the garden, time to make salsa!

Diced about 70 jalepenos for the salsa, which I do every summer with little ill effects. But this year, about an hour after I'm done, my hands are ON FIRE!!!

Goggled jalepeno skin burns (with my fingers on fire!) - and came up with some of the most hilarious forum entries I've read in a long time!

Jalapeno Pepper Burn Treatment

I took a number of their suggestions and made my own fix - worked like a charm!

GoJo hand cleaner - rinse - liquid Dawn - rinse. Repeat three times.
Aloe Vera sunburn gel - allow to dry. Repeat twice.



Glad I decided to try this before I got to the suggestion to pee on my hands - plenty of people swore that worked for them (other than the guy that set his penis on jalapeno fire!).






Oh yeah, got 10 half-pints of salsa canned up for the winter

Like picking okra......., or rolling in insulation...uch:

 

[StrawberryGal]

OK, let me start off saying I don't wear gloves for anything - gardening, dishwashing, motorcycle riding - just can't get good enough a feel for it with gloves on.

So, lots of tomatoes from the garden, time to make salsa!

Diced about 70 jalepenos for the salsa, which I do every summer with little ill effects. But this year, about an hour after I'm done, my hands are ON FIRE!!!

Goggled jalepeno skin burns (with my fingers on fire!) - and came up with some of the most hilarious forum entries I've read in a long time!

Jalapeno Pepper Burn Treatment

I took a number of their suggestions and made my own fix - worked like a charm!

GoJo hand cleaner - rinse - liquid Dawn - rinse. Repeat three times.
Aloe Vera sunburn gel - allow to dry. Repeat twice.



Glad I decided to try this before I got to the suggestion to pee on my hands - plenty of people swore that worked for them (other than the guy that set his penis on jalapeno fire!).






Oh yeah, got 10 half-pints of salsa canned up for the winter

OUCH!

I wish I was there to watch you doing all of that.

Glad to hear that you got 10 half-pints of salsa canned up for the winter.

 

[lovinmaryland]

"hot water burn baby"

Sorry first thing that popped in my mind when I saw the thread title

 

[frozenrain]

We eat poppers (the kind w/o breading around it) every week and we make about 40-60 at a time and eat all of em.. I luv em

Cooking some now

How come it doe not hurt your eyes when you cut the peppers and it squirts into your eye?

 

[frozenrain]

these dudes are hot tonight-left a few seeds in.

 

[Chain729]

these dudes are hot tonight-left a few seeds in.

You're supposed to, the seeds are the good part.

I hope my gastro doc doesn't see this.

 

[BS Gal]

Cooking some now

How come it doe not hurt your eyes when you cut the peppers and it squirts into your eye?

I've gotten it in my eyes before and it burned like hell.

 

[frozenrain]

You're supposed to, the seeds are the good part.

I hope my gastro doc doesn't see this.

Yes they can be addictive. Sometimes my mouth waters when I am selecting them at the supermarket- what am I like? Worse than a kid in a candy store
I promise not to tell your gastro doc

I've gotten it in my eyes before and it burned like hell.

Well maybe I have bionic eyes or something .Gee I better be careful what I type here or some mad scientist might capture me to experiment on me as to why my eyes do not sting and use it for bio warfare.

That is strange as I got a good squirt in my eyes.

Saying that when I chop onions I can cry like crazy

 

[Chain729]

Yes they can be addictive. Sometimes my mouth waters when I am selecting them at the supermarket- what am I like? Worse than a kid in a candy store
I promise not to tell your gastro doc

And thank you. According to him, I'm only supposed to eat cardboard.

 

[tyky]

Reminds me of the time a friend was making Jerk chicken and he was cutting habenero (sp?) peppers and didn't wash his hands after. He went to the bathroom and grabbed his to pee and he started screaming. He couldn't get his to stop burning