Dude.......That's all I can say!!! ROFLMBO!!

Yeah the oils definitely get through the latex gloves. I did the same thing and my hands were burning. I washed my hands like 15 times and I still set my eye on fire when I rubbed it the next day. I thought maybe I had a hole in the gloves too, but it happened again a week or so later, I donâÂÂt think the gloves block it all. The best part is days later when I put on latex gloves for work my hand start to sweat out the hot oils and my hands start to burn again ouch.

I've used both, and nitrile gloves seem to do the trick better, in my limited experience.

I was cutting up peppers this last weekend too.Luckily I didn't have any problem with heat getting through the gloves however I have a headache... see topic title

I didn't cut any peppers this weekend, but I'd be happy to send you a couple Tylenol Lori.

;)

For me the best removal is butter, when I chop my Bhuts I wash my hands and get butter under my fingernails and after that wash with soap and its 100% gone, no other method I found to work as butter. I use country crock churn style butter.

Mark

Holy BhutButterfingers! I had taken to soaking my fingers in cream but this sounds a lot faster method of sting removal.

Oils and soap will only remove the capsaicin that is not absorbed. So , there is no way to get that stuff back out and stopped the burn. Think about PREVENTION. wearing gloves is one. But how about (in addition) lubricating and sturating your hands with vegetable oil? It should create an invisible shield. Also, when your sking is already saturated with oil, it will not absorb any more ...think about it !

Poison Ivy may not be as painful, but it causes the same handicap.

Or so i've heard...........................

Steve

This post was edited by sjetski on Mon, Sep 23, 13 at 17:47

OMG- Poison Ivy - I was went camping with a buddy and we drank copious amounts of liquid around the campfire late that night. Rather than walking all the way to the campground facilities each time we needed to powder our noses, we used the cover of some bushes, then just threw the tp in the fire. No muss no fuss - too bad I picked the bush with the nice little carpet of poison ivy. I only showed the doctor the back of my wiping hand in order to get a cortisone prescription. I wriggled a lot on my chair when people weren't looking...woulda looked a little slutty using a door frame to scratch...

Kevin,
simple fix...just don the latex glove/s later tonight ;-)
Pretend you're dating a doctor, hehe

Josh

EUW JOSH! Or should I say EUW Kevin for starting this.

Lori... OW! I can't imagine. If I had such a case, I don't think I could leave the house. It's making me hurt just sitting here thinking about it. I always figured I didn't have issues with poison ivy, after spending many drunk evenings sitting in the stuff. YOW!

Pam

This thread amuses me.

That is all.

On topic, while I do notice there is still some that is on my hands even with gloves, at least it's nowhere near as bad!

Off topic, I smoked/dried a couple of pounds of super hots to get around a pound of powder- and drying that much even with a respirator left my face on fire once I took my respirator off thinking I was safe...

Definitely doing that outside next time.

I have learned to take precautions too but somehow once in awhile even the best laid plans go awry.

I got caught off guard when I leaned over the chute of my kitchen aid shredder to clear some horse radish that was blocking the works.

You got it right - resulted in my running around the kitchen with tears running down my face then my sinuses decide to unload.

I cooked my first try of sauce from the super hots by taking my induction burner and other cooking gear outside and had it all down wind from where i needed to stand. As long as it isn't raining, all is well. Even one of those cheapie single coiled burners for $20 would do the same job.

But as I said, even the best laid plans - I still get nasty hot fingers once in awhile and soaking in milk or cream took it away - next time I'm going to try the butter trick - could possibly load up on butter, then put gloves on and continue bottling or other clean up duties.

I know when I didn't have some gloves a while back when working with some jalapenos, I was able to coat my hands in some cooking/veg oil and occasionally dip my hands into it every few peppers and didn't have any problems with it burning after. I'm not crazy enough to try that method with the super hots however. That and it's generally more messy than it's worth.

Two words "Hot Stranger".

Well I generally try to avoid contact with the innards of the pepper, but it's inevitable. Thing is, although I trim super-hots without protection it seems my hands notice it less and less with repeated exposure. I'm still careful not to get near sensitive tissue, but "Hunan hand" (or in this case Hunan hiney) is an increasingly rare occurrence.

Is there something wrong with my peppers? Or maybe I've evolved super-endorphins...

Dennis

the funny thing is, I've had no negative experiences with burned hands from my bhuts or my brain strains. it's the habs that consistently burn me. based on the numbers, one would think the superhots could do way more damage.

I've noticed that too. Seems I get the worst Hot Hands from handling jalapenos. Maybe it's that I don't take so many pains to avoid contact. Or maybe there's something more sinister at work...