On 2021-05-26 4:31 p.m., bruce bowser wrote:
> 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.
>
There might be a little irritation, but I doubt it would be anywhere
near as bad as hot chilis.