YEEEEEEEEEE OWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

[RonMar]

Rob, I am a USCG Boarding officer, we have to completely understand it's effects before we can carry it. The marine environment is unpredictable and it is entirely possible if you have to use it, that you or one of your team will be exposed. The standard training drill is to get sprayed then holding one eyelid open with one hand so you can see(most peoples eyelids slam shut as an automatic reaction to the sting), retain your sidearm with the other and evade attack by an assailant.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Wash your hands and rinse thoroughly. Place your finger tips into exactly 12oz of cold beer. (regular beer-none of that lite stuff). Leave them for five seconds. Take your fingers out, shake off the beer (do not towel dry them) and then drink the beer. Repeat the fingers in beer process every 10 minutes for 60 minutes.

I guarantee in one hour you will not be concerned about your hands at all; you may not even remember canning. What peppers?????




PS Wash your hands in the morning. They may still smell like beer.

Beer? That's why I forgot the rubber gloves in the first place.

Back when I was in college, I tried the shotglass a minute thing (with Little Kings Ale) I discovered at minute 83 that the table I was sitting at was harder than my forehead. ( And my wife swears my head is harder than any substance known to man. I fooled her!)

 

[SPIKER]

best way I'm told (not from experiance as I'm ont a pepper lover) is using some salt & baking soda & water to neutralize the peppers acid, using cold water followed by slightly warmer water. then use some aloe or sunburn cooling gel with aloe. her grandmother said using milk on thehands can also help cut the burn...

not 100% sure if this works but if ya can more & do it agine let us know

Mark M

 

[Hootie]

Learned that lesson the hard way a couple of years ago. Friend gave me some really hot peppers so we made salsa, nope was not wearing gloves, rinsed my hands, needed to wee wee. Wee wee'd and shortly there after YEEEEEEEEEE OWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

 

[dmccarty]

FarmWithJunk,

When I get hot peppers on my hands I clean them like I do when I get oil/grease on my hands when working on equipment. Wash your hands with liquid soap BUT NO WATER until it rinse time. The soap will get under the oil, and capsacium is an oil, so it will be easier to get off. If you use soap and water it won't work. But soap first scrub scrub scrub and the rinse with water does work. If you have it bad you will have to do this more than once.

Let us know if the other suggestions helped.

And I can back Ron up on the effects of Pepper Spray. Wonderful stuff. Ya think its been washed off but when it reactivates in the shower, WAAAAHOOO! The fun begins again!

I made some curry last night for dinner. It was good but a bit too hot. The only thing I can figure I did to really spice it up was I put in two tablespoons of chopped hot peppers. I did this the night before with no problrm. BUT, I had covered the peppers with sushi vineger and I added two tablespoons of this to the curry. Me thinks that is where the heat came from. A fair amount of good beer solved the problem for me. The wife had to use sour cream.

Peppers are fun.

Later,
Dan

 

[Nasty135]

Hey Farm, My wife and her girl friend just finished doing the same thing (no gloves) second year in a row Wifes skin under fingernails burning, I think she took a long time doing dishes that night just soaking her hands ....
Her girlfriend had absent mindedly rubbed her face even after the wife coached her on what not to do... But the best story is the first year she had to use the bathroom in the middle of the canning process... HeHe "Can you picture a SATURN 5 Lift-off "

 

[Spark_man]

You might try vegetable oil - had a similar incident with that Capzasin back rub. My wife called the 800 number listed on the label and they said to use plain old vegetable oil to neutralize it. It worked for me.

 

[scott_vt]

... HeHe "Can you picture a SATURN 5 Lift-off "

Mornin Mark,
YEP

 

[Slacker]

Use purple power or Go-jo wipes. That'll cut the oil that the soap is missing.
Try Glycerin soap rather than normal bath soap. It cuts oil alot better.

 

[wushaw]

I know Castor oil works on a particular hydraulic fluid that is used on commercial airplanes that is very very bad on any sensitive and not so sensitive parts of the body.