I have a serious problem with a jalapeño. Please help!!

[VLC]

I cut up a raw jalapeño from my garden for dinner. I tasted it and it was reaaaaaaaally hot. So now it's an hour later and I've washed my hands at least 3 times since then. I tried to take out my contact lenses and OH MY GOD the paaaaain!!! So now I don't know what to do. Besides washing my hands again, what will get the pepper oil off them so I can take my contacts out? My eye and that whole side of the face are bright red!

[ZombieNixon]

1. Dunk your face in milk, maybe?

Capcasin is fat-soluble, so oils help get rid of it. Try butter or something, perhaps. Sorry you're hurting. I got chile juice in my eyes when I was four once. Not eager to relive the experience. :scared:

[likesmountains 52]

2. I am also suffering..advice from the cooking forum suggested oil...I just rubbed my hands

with olive oil...I think it might be helping..

[lligrd]

3. Capsaicin Is An Oil - Use A Grease Cutter

like dish washing soap.

[JVS]

4. when you wash you hands, do so in baking soda or something

[Kali]

5. embrace the pain and let it be the teacher so that you never again handle

hot peppers without golves.

It will go away in a few hours. It is soluble in fat so milk might help. Definitely try it on your hands.

[VLC]

7. This is the first jalapeño I ever grew

Apparently they are MUCH hotter raw than pickled.

PS - I have about 20 more. Want some? I'm not as excited about them as I was a few hours ago.

[Kali]

10. heck yes, I'd take them

here is a great easy popper recipe: cut open and clean out seeds and membrane (WEARING GLOVES) stuff with cream cheese and wrap with half a slice of bacon - secure with toothpick if needed and bake on a cookie sheet 375 for 20 minutes or so until bacon is done.

that will use up the whole batch pretty fast:9

[VLC]

12. Yeah, besides the pepper there's not a single thing in that recipe I'd eat!

[Kali]

19. vegan? or just don't like bacon and cream cheese?

oh well. i don't really like cream cheese either, but this combo fo three is pretty yummy.

[Connonym]

15. hot damn! I'm making that!

I love jalapeno poppers but I don't fry foods at home. This sounds like a wonderful alternative. I can't wait to try this!

[stuntcat]

16. *want!*

You have TWENTY :headbang: I'll take half of those thanks, then freeze them to cut up for rice and beans and other taco stuff. I grew some but I didn't get 20 yet, I still have some I haven't brought in and counted yet though.

I've learned through horrible trials to wear gloves whenever I handle them but the other day after I cut up a little red one (maybe not a jalepeno, but something close, I got it at the farmers market), when I took the gloves off I somehow got some of it on my fingers anyway and I spent about three hours in agony, I had to just lay down and try to keep my hands still :cry:

[VLC]

6. Thanks all...

I tried rubbing alcohol first and that helped a lot. Contacts are now out, but I bet they will hurt again tomorrow morning.

BTW, I looked around while I was waiting and all the answers you guys supplied are the top ones, so again, thanks! Feeling much better now.

[Mutley]

8. I got jalapeno juice in my nose a few weeks ago.

I was cutting one up for fajitas and I guess I scratched my nose without thinking about it. Oh, that was not fun. I had to wait a good two hours before the pain went away. The fajitas were yummy, though.

Glad it feels better.

[SarahB]

9. Better than what happened to my husband a few months back.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=6514725

[DarkTirade]

11. Yeah, that's never fun. Thankfully the only time something like that happened to me, the hot sauce

was diluted by being mixed with barbecue sauce.

Although the one time when someone got the uber-hot sauce at our restaurant in his eye... well, that was kinda ironic. Since he not only invented the uber-hot sauce, but the sauce was NAMED after him.

[Bassic]

13. Wash your hands with dishwashing soap a few times.

In the meantime, do NOT go to the washroom. Trust me.

[China_cat]

14. Wash your hands in oil of some kind...cooking oil is good.

Or vodka.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. the hotness of jalapenos esp raw ones is variable from pepper to pepper

I kid you not. I sometimes get them barely hot enough to matter, then the one right next to it will set your hair on fire just smelling it.


Yours may be more consistent, having come from same bushes, same dirt, same growing conditions.


Get some gloves. slice them up. freeze them in small portions, like for recipe size.. and enjoy them later. I put fresh jalapenos in my chili yum yum yum and my stir fries. also yum yum yum

I have had those bacon poppers they are good. not very Weight Watcher friendly but still good

[Xipe Totec]

18. For future reference,...

Emergency rooms actually use a diluted bleach solution (approximately 1 Tablespoon of bleach to a liter of water). Soak your hands in it briefly and the bleach will break down the capsaicin alkaloid. But only briefly and then wash your hands thoroughly. You don’t want bleach in your eyes any more than you want capsaicin, but at least bleach is water-soluble. If you want to avoid the bleach on your hands, you can coat your hands in vegetable oil. It won’t eliminate the heat, but it will reduce it.



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