It Burns! It Burns! (long, TMI)

The BBQ Pit
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[nitpick]

Actually, this has nothing to do with Political Correctness, but simply with Correctness.

A person from Mexico, or of Mexican background, living in the United States, is not Spanish. Period.

“Spanish” is an adjective describing something or someone from Spain. When speaking of language, it can also be a noun: “I speak Spanish.”

A Mexican-American may indeed speak the Spanish language (Castellano), but doing so does not make that person Spanish. After all, does the fact that you speak English but live in the United States make you English? Didn’t think so.

[/nitpick]

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Cheese it! It’s the Capsicum!

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cowgirl puts the cum in Capsicum.

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On a tangentially related note, my dog chews the chilis from our habanero plant if we don’t watch him. Dumb dog.

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So, I’ve got a rather sore right arm from carrying things that were far too heavy for me all day. I rub some Tiger Balm: Red Ultra into it using my left hand, and then, coincidentally, decide that it’s time for a little monkey punching. I get about halfway through when suddenly…AAAARRGHH!!@#!$ Cue image of Alereon spending ten minutes hunched over the sink splashing warm water on his rapidly deflating genitalia.

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Sniffs_Markers has some kind of chili plant that gets these itty bitty really motherf**king HOT peppers growing on them. We were getting ready to go on a weekend trip so she filled a big mixing bowl/salad bowl full of water for FatCat and StupidLittleCat. We ran some errands, came back…

Oh, look! The plant has no itty bitty really motherf**king HOT peppers on it… How odd…

Oh, look! The great big salad bowl of water is completely empty… How odd…

…Where’s StupidLittleCat?

StupidLittleCat was poopin’ blood :eek:

Vet was unimpressed, though ultimately, no real harm was done.

Now, I can see StupidLittleCat eating a pepper. Maybe even two. But the whole friggin’ plant’s worth???

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Gasps and wipes away the tears Deep breaths…

Ok, now that I’ve calmed down, milk is indeed a good choice to get rid of the oils in hot peppers, it has a “detergant like” effect that helps break down and remove the irritating oils. Also the sugars in it help nuetralize the akalinity? of the peppers.

Scolville units are how many units of sugar water it takes to nuetralize one unit? of the particular pepper’s oil, if I remember correctly. So, try sugar water (But NOT fizzy drinks!!! Those only add to any irritation.) if you need to get rid of burning in the mouth, not sure I’d put it in my eyes, but I might rinse my naughty bits with it if I were desperate.

I was taught to make “chili” by a lady of Mexican ancestry from Texas. Here are the tips she gave me for making a nice quick all purpose salsa. First pick dark green unwithered jalepenos, if you can find any that are really shiny and have black on them get them too. (Hot, hot, hot stuff. Yum!)

Boil the peppers in just enough water to float, and not scorch. Once they are limp, let them cool a bit. Be sure to avoid the steam, have a window open or stove vent on. Using a fork to fish them out of the water (save the water) pull the stems off carefully.

Wash your hands after handling them!!! Use something like Dawn too, I find it’s more thorough.

Put the de-stemmed peppers in the food processor, with some water from the pot because some of the oils will have cooked off, so this keeps the salsa HOT. Add fresh tomatoes, and whatever other sundry seasonings etc. you like. (A bit of garlic, or cilantro, etc. Sometimes I just make it green.) Put the top on, and chop it to the consistency you want. It’s quite good on eggs with breakfast. :wink: It stores nicely in a jar for quite a while too.

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My brother-in-law grew some habaneros and knew enough to wear disposable gloves when he harvested the peppers. He pulled the plants out of the ground, tied them into bunches and hung them in the garage to dry. A few weeks later, he went to see how they were doing and discovered a mouse had crawled into one of the bunches and nibbled on a pepper. It was dead.:eek:
Thems some hot stuff!