# OMG! Fresh jalapeno peppers where have you been all my life! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-fresh-jalapeno-peppers-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/487764 "2009-02-28T04:54:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-fresh-jalapeno-peppers-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/487764/21 "2009-03-02T01:19:30Z")
Once in a drunken state, I called them japalenos, so when I read “japs” it went right over my head, as once in a while I still transpose the word. Anyway, jalapeno love is a great thing to discover. All my life, mom made salsa with pickled sliced ones from a jar. Only when I was out of the house, married and on my own did I discover that you could buy these things in the store, just like that. I’ll dice a couple up, drop then in a pan with some olive oil, while I scramble some eggs with sharp cheddar. At the last minute drop some butter into the pan, then the eggs. Take the scrambled result, put it on a corn tortilla, with a slice of avocado, and salsa verde. You’re welcome. (trust me, you’ll thank me) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-fresh-jalapeno-peppers-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/487764/22 "2009-03-02T01:27:47Z")
First time in New Orleans my friends (who lived there) and a few of the crew and actors on the film and I went to have a Mexican dinner. We munched on tortilla chips while waiting for dinner. Man, the salsa was weak! I asked the waitress if she could bring something to spice it up and she brought sliced fresh jalapeños. I ended up bypassing the salsa and just putting the jalapeños on the chips. The waitress looked at me as if I were nuts. My friend said, ‘Oh, he’s from Southern California. They do that.’ (In reality, the peppers were a bit anemic.) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-fresh-jalapeno-peppers-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/487764/23 "2009-03-02T01:50:36Z")
> [@Miss\_Violaceous](#): > > Be careful chopping up fresh hot peppers! Use gloves or chuck them in a food processor. In a pinch I wrap plastic bags around my hands. > > If the oil gets on your hands too much it can react badly and BURN LIKE EVERLOVING HELL. When it happened to me (I think it’s a critical mass thing, never was a problem and then BOOM) it felt so bad that if I closed my eyes I imagined fire was burning off my flesh. I did this, chopping without gloves. Twice. You’d think I’d learned the first time, but no! It was so, so painful. I tried everything, including Vagisil :eek: and nothing helped, except cold water. I had to sit there all day with my hands submerged in a bucket of cold water, taking them out only for a moment to do whatever had to be done. Oddly, about 12 hours later - the pain just … stopped. The pain just went away. Very odd. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-fresh-jalapeno-peppers-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/487764/24 "2009-03-02T08:30:50Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I did this, chopping without gloves. Twice. You’d think I’d learned the first time, but no! It was so, so painful. I tried everything, including Vagisil :eek: and nothing helped, except cold water. I had to sit there all day with my hands submerged in a bucket of cold water, taking them out only for a moment to do whatever had to be done. Oddly, about 12 hours later - the pain just … stopped. The pain just went away. Very odd. Using water to try and remove residual pepper oils is hard because the pepper oil is not very solvent in water. Many people recommend milk as the best readily available pepper oil solvent for internal use. I imagine a detergent like Dawn that is noted for being a powerful oil solvent might be useful for external areas. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-fresh-jalapeno-peppers-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/487764/25 "2009-03-02T11:31:13Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > Once in a drunken state, I called them japalenos, so when I read “japs” it went right over my head, as once in a while I still transpose the word. > > Anyway, jalapeno love is a great thing to discover. All my life, mom made salsa with pickled sliced ones from a jar. Only when I was out of the house, married and on my own did I discover that you could buy these things in the store, just like that. > > I’ll dice a couple up, drop then in a pan with some olive oil, while I scramble some eggs with sharp cheddar. At the last minute drop some butter into the pan, then the eggs. > > Take the scrambled result, put it on a corn tortilla, with a slice of avocado, and salsa verde. > > You’re welcome. (trust me, you’ll thank me) The horrible irony is that they’re not readily available in Japan. I’ve never seen them for sale in any supermarket. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-fresh-jalapeno-peppers-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/487764.md?page=1)