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    Oh boy did I make a mistake

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    I assume, as a 'roaster pepper' one is supposed to roast the skin off before using? Or use to stuff and roast? Not one I've come across myself.
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    I was playing with peppers last night too and then went to the bathroom...yep!

    Even this morning after much hand washing, a shower and time sleeping in bed last night, I rubbed my eyes...yep!

    I'm about to eat some for lunch, so we'll see how that goes...a glutton for punishment I am.
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    I made that mistake a time or two, now I keep a box of thin disposable rubber gloves for cleaning peppers, when done peel the gloves off and into the trash. Saves a lot of grief. Everybody and their brother likes hot pepper jelly but no ones ever around to help me make it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TenTea View Post
    I was playing with peppers last night too and then went to the bathroom...yep!.
    Done that before. Never again!
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    Poured a bottle of Blairs MegaDeath sauce into a bowl with a huge can of peanuts, stirred it up and baked it till dry. I got a lot of mixed reactions from folks at work. I did make a mistake at one point and rubbed my eye after handling some, and infused the heat into my contact lens. Oh boy! Glad I didn't pull the bathroom goof!
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    Quote Originally Posted by dragon813gt View Post
    So I decided to grow Italian Roaster peppers this year. I could have sworn they were labeled as sweet peppers. Harvested the first batch to make some fajitas w/ last night. Wore no gloves when processing them. My hands are on fire at the moment. And I about burnt my mouth off last night. I thought it was because I added to much cayenne powder to the mix. Nope, it was the red Italian roaster pepper. I like spicy food but man did I screw up. Thankfully I didn't touch my eyes last night. Or worse yet get it on my two month old son. I will always double check peppers before I assume they are sweet from now on.
    Good thing you didn't have to take a leak as well.

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    Let me tell you the wife isn't too happy about handling hot peppers with bare hands either. I know they say you should spice things up, but I don't think that is what they had in mind.
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    Sometimes mild peppers will still burn.
    Are these what you have??
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    I cut some jalapeños up to add to a jar of pickles one time. A few hours later, I took my contacts out. Man...
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    Last year my son gave me a bunch of hot peppers he grew. I let them sit in the basement till they were dry, then I ground them up in the blender. While pouring the powder into a jar, I got a good whiff of the real fine dust. I wished I hadn't. That was wicked stuff.

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    The hotter the pepper, the more you need gloves, eye and respiratory protection. Use a well ventilated airspace, let a fan suck the air away from you and out an open window, etc..

    I put a bunch of Trinidad Butch T Scorpions in a food processor once, and then simply opened it after they were done, didn't touch any of the peppers, man that stuff attacked with a vengeance, filled the kitchen with pepper gas, even with the exhaust fan on the oven hood on high I was coughing, sneezing, eyes watering, nose running, it was WICKED! I had to leave the room.

    Don't process hot peppers on a wooden cutting board or a worn one with lots of use on it, you can taint food you process 2 days later just from the residual capsaicin that soaked into the knife cuts and wood grain of your cutting board. I use a plastic divider from a notebook to slice and process peppers on, then I can soak that in the sink in hot soapy water so I know it's neutralized.
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    I make my own chili powder from a blend of 12 chili's including Thai bird chili's and habenero. I seed them then grind them in a coffee mill. As I was doing it a friend walked in the house and wandered into the kitchen when I hollered to come in. He started choking, gasping, wheezing... thought I was going to have to take him to the hospital. All I was wearing were gloves, no face or eye protection. Sure my nose was running and eyes burning but I didn't think it was that bad...

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    Many years ago I had a juicer and grew all kinds of hot peppers including Habeneros. A friend wanted some jalapeno juice. DO NOT do something like that... The process of juicing the jalapeno's released the heat into the air, I basically pepper sprayed myself. Took over an hour before anyone would venture into my kitchen.

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    Wife grew sweet peppers one time and I took a few to work with lunch. The long green ones, sweet.
    Ate a bunch, got to the point on the last one, tossed it in and that sucker ate me up! Hotter then a ghost pepper. Just the tip.
    I like hot and spicy but I was in pain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MaryB View Post
    I make my own chili powder from a blend of 12 chili's including Thai bird chili's and habenero. I seed them then grind them in a coffee mill. As I was doing it a friend walked in the house and wandered into the kitchen when I hollered to come in. He started choking, gasping, wheezing... thought I was going to have to take him to the hospital. All I was wearing were gloves, no face or eye protection. Sure my nose was running and eyes burning but I didn't think it was that bad...
    I dry mine in a dehydrator before I grind them and have not issues.

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    I ate a Scottish bonnet once on a dare.... I just swallowed it whole, figured it was better then chewing.

    How do you guys eat these things all the time?! I literally drove 75 mph down a 40, hoping to either make it to a CVS to buy pepto. Or for a cop to pull me over and shoot me.

    My eyes are watering right now!
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    That is why I dry and grind them. Just a very little powder is all I need to season my food. I eat way more sweet peppers than hot peppers but I am a Yankee by birth.

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