• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    An old joke, possibly originating from somewhere in the basement of a DuPont facility:

    How can you tell a chemist apart from an engineer?

    The chemist washes his hands before he takes a leak.

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    24 hours ago

    Not me. I ate a jalapeno today that was the hottest fucker in the bunch. Forgot to wash my hands. Both my mouth and eyes were on fire. Worth it.

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      14 hours ago

      Also pro tip: don’t touch your gf all over when she just got home and greets you while cutting peppers, because she screamed so loud in agony when I touched her clit. It was truly horrible and I still feel shit about it, even though we broke up years ago for other reasons.

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    23 hours ago

    I just picked up more nitrile gloves for chopping jalepenos because I didn’t wash throughly enough before touching my junk once.

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      I should probably do that. Feels like you can scrub your fingers pretty decently after cutting peppers, and there’s still a bit of residual burn when you touch sensitive areas. Maybe it depends on the spice level of the pepper, but I don’t generally go above habs for eating raw, so it’s not like I’m chopping reapers or even ghosts.

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        I once scrubbed my hands like 4 times after cutting up jalapenos, went to the store to get a missing ingredient, and when I was leaving I rubbed my eye.

        I thought I was going to have to go to the ER.

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    I’ve eaten nearly exclusively spicy food for many years and have only been eye spiced once. I generally don’t even wash my hands after, and often touch my face and eyes while cooking because of my hair. It almost feels like a fairy tale to me, the idea of getting eye spiced. Are people irritating their eyes with peppers spicier than serrano, arbol, and pequin peppers or are my eyes just impervious?

    But I would like some advice for an ongoing issue, I still can’t figure out how to prevent my home from filling with painfully spicy air when I stir fry. Any advice on that front?

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      21 hours ago

      I have the same issue. Fried some tofu a few days ago with a ghost pepper coating, and wow – I had the evacuate the kitchen for half an hour!

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      You and I are on two different ends of this spectrum cause I also eat almost exclusively spicy food, but never get bothered by anything airborne. Anytime I handle something fresh my fingies are all up inside those guts, but a lot of what I deal with is dried so that’s really only jalapenos and serrano.

      Edit: habaneros are usually fresh too, but they usually go in a blender like the dried dudes.

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        That’s hilarious! I usually eat the seeds or gut the peppers halfhazardly with a couple of knife sweeps through the flesh. I guess my hands only get a small coating by comparison.

        But what are you cooking on? I’m usually on a cast iron with olive/canola oil with temp anywhere from medium to high

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        Oh jeez, our federation is borked. It took hours to get this notification. But yeah, at this point, upping the power on our motor seems to be the only immediately apparent longterm feasible option

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            we discuss an unusual exposure of capsaicin to the vaginal mucosa with successful treatment.

            Before I read any further, I’d just like to point out my supreme confusion at how a respirator might help in this situation. I first imagined a patient in an urgent care being prescribed a respirator to treat their nightmarish groin pain.

            Edit: by god, they must have been screaming from the speculum. I nearly audibly screamed as I read through this. What fresh, undeserved horror this person lived through.

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              My point is peppers are used in pepper spray. Respirator because you may be especially sensitive. People actually die from reaction to capsaicin.

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                Oh, I’ve understood that for ages. Back when India was trading the record for hottest pepper, you’d find dozens of videos of folks eating them. Some died from aspiration. Others from swelling in the gut. I take it seriously.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayOP
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      Actually some of it must’ve gotten in the corner of my nail and cuticle cause I just wrestled with an eye booger and had an unpleasant 30-ish seconds.