Joy of Burning.
Sep. 18th, 2007 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Some of you may remember
explodingcat's adventure with capsaicin burn.
Now, you'd think he learned a good lesson there, right?
Twenty minutes ago, he walks in with a scotch bonnet pepper. Says, "Hey you wanted this in the meatloaf, right?" I confirm, tell him to wear gloves, and he wanders off.
He comes in shortly thereafter, stumbling against doorways . . . his eyes are screwed shut and streaming. "I think I got pepper juice in my eyes."
So I quickly look up a fix and tell him I'll go cut the aloe. Being manly he says, "NO! Oh, god. No! You can't cut that!" (I'm allergic.)
So I fill the eyewash cup.
He washes out his eyes. Tells me that it's amazing stuff because it works on both icy hot and pepper juice.
Then I ask him, "Honey, did you wear gloves?"
"No. I didn't really touch it that much."
"Did you think I was joking about the gloves."
He nods and shakes his head at the same time.
"Sweetie, I'm trying not to laugh at you while you're in excruciating pain, but . . . . Do you KNOW what the scoville units are on the teeny little pepper you just cut?"
"No."
"125,000 to 350,000. It's up there with the habanero."
"oh."
He wanders back to the kitchen with his bloodshot eyes and I descend upon LJ.
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Now, you'd think he learned a good lesson there, right?
Twenty minutes ago, he walks in with a scotch bonnet pepper. Says, "Hey you wanted this in the meatloaf, right?" I confirm, tell him to wear gloves, and he wanders off.
He comes in shortly thereafter, stumbling against doorways . . . his eyes are screwed shut and streaming. "I think I got pepper juice in my eyes."
So I quickly look up a fix and tell him I'll go cut the aloe. Being manly he says, "NO! Oh, god. No! You can't cut that!" (I'm allergic.)
So I fill the eyewash cup.
He washes out his eyes. Tells me that it's amazing stuff because it works on both icy hot and pepper juice.
Then I ask him, "Honey, did you wear gloves?"
"No. I didn't really touch it that much."
"Did you think I was joking about the gloves."
He nods and shakes his head at the same time.
"Sweetie, I'm trying not to laugh at you while you're in excruciating pain, but . . . . Do you KNOW what the scoville units are on the teeny little pepper you just cut?"
"No."
"125,000 to 350,000. It's up there with the habanero."
"oh."
He wanders back to the kitchen with his bloodshot eyes and I descend upon LJ.
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Date: 2007-09-19 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-19 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-19 02:57 am (UTC)Ouch.
Ask Tim about the Habanero Vodka sometime.
:-D
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Date: 2007-09-19 03:17 am (UTC)Some things just aren't worth mbeing macho over. I could see my hubby ignoring a warning like this with similar consequences. Though in his case usually it's a lifting warning because he has back trouble.
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Date: 2007-09-19 06:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-19 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-19 11:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-19 02:03 pm (UTC)Nine out of ten times, small is hotter than large.
Nine out of ten times, narrow is hotter than round.
Nine out of ten times, green is hotter than red.
The habenero, or scotch bonnet, is the exception to all three of the above rules.
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Date: 2007-09-19 03:15 pm (UTC)(The scotch bonnet mushroom is actually edible.)
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Date: 2007-09-19 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 05:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 04:15 pm (UTC)I never thought of using hot peppers in meat loaf. I did put two habaneros (one scotch bonnet and one chocolate) in a 4 quart batch of chili. I ended up with the whole batch to myself as no one else could stand the burn. LOL