On Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 9:48:49 PM UTC-4, wrote:
> On Friday, May 21, 2021 at 5:08:58 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> > I like to have Thai birds eye chili on hand but use the stuff only in
> > small amounts. Around here they sell them only in packages of 30 or
> > more, so they go bad before I use them up. I was watching Jamie Oliver
> > a couple weeks ago and she showed a money saving trip for chilis. He
> > claimed it was a cheap and easy way to keep them in good shape for
> > months. So I tried it.
> >
> > It has been a success so far. It's been about three weeks since I put
> > them in a bunch of them in a large plastic spice jar, the type that has
> > a double cap, one for getting a spoon in and the other for sprinkling.
> > I had cut up half a chili very finely to add to a batch of avocado
> > mango salsa. When I put it back I thought maybe it needed to be shaken
> > up because the salt had settled on the bottom.
> >
> > I should have made sure the top was on tight. Some of the liquid leaked
> > out of the flip top and ran down my hand. I washed my hands and went on
> > with other things. That was about an hour ago. I have washed my hands
> > three times since then and my left hand is on fire. Heck, I just licked
> > between two fingers and now my tongue is burning.
> One time back when I wore contacts, I made a batch of chili using some pretty hot peppers and when I went to bed and after numerous times of washing my hands cleaned my contacts and put them in their carrying case. And the next morning when I woke cleaned off my contacts, and it was like putting hot peppers in my eyes! I had another pair of untouched contacts, but when I cleaned them off to wear them again they were like hot peppers in my eyes, But I figured I had to tolerate it and it went away after a while.

I wonder if black pepper would have the same effect.