Apparently, I was thinking that my husband and I were missing a major life experience. So I decided to rectify this lack by frying some jalapenos and incapacitating us with aerosolized essence of pain. Homemade pepper spray!
So, we get to check that off our bucket lists. You’re welcome, honey!
I think it was on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, the featured restaurant had a Scorpion Pepper-Ghost Pepper-Habanero Hot Wings.
The kitchen crew was wearing full face respirators while cooking and mixing the sauce.
For improved results, after getting hit with the homemade pepper spray reflexively wipe your eyes with the same fingers used when slicing the peppers. Did that once with Scotch bonnet peppers during a romantic “come over and I’ll make you a fancy dinner” -type date.
That story brings tears to my eyes! :smack:
(Why yes, I’ve done that…)
If the coughing and irritation (mind you, I was NOT sitting in the kitchen, but in an adjacent room) had lasted any longer, I probably would have needed to leave the house. Pepper spray, indeed…
Could have been worse. Could have dodged the homemade pepper spray, and not wiped your eyes, but instead get “better acquainted” with the lady without washing your hand first.
Now *there’s *a ruined date.
Yeah, I did the ol’ “wipe the eye after cutting peppers” trick. I ended up having to climb into the shower…
They do build showers at floor level… 
We have a shower directly above the kitchen, so we could have just shot right up through the floor. 
The one I remember was when he went to a pho place in LA. The cook looked like he was scared to death of the dish, and he invented it! Full respirator and Guy had to back away to the far side of the kitchen.
The owner of the pizza place where I worked in college used to set each new dishwasher/cook to cutting jalapenos at the end of his first night. After about ten minutes, he’d bring him a beer or two. He said that was his sure fire method of finding out who washed their hands around the place. And ensuring that those who didn’t before learned to do so quickly.
That may be the one. I might have mixed up that episode with one of the others featuring Wings O’ Death.
She is seriously hardcore. I’d think twice about ever mod-noting one of her posts…
Just sayin’
Land mines in reserve in case I get a warning.
<checks to see what forum I’m in>
Dammit.
<walks away shaking fist>
I once tried to reduce a fith of Jack Daniel’s, in a feckless attempt to make JD sauce.
I don’t recommend you try this unless you have a gas mask handy.
Bread poultice. If you wipe peppery fingers in your eye, blot it out with a mashed up piece of white bread. If you get too much of a mouthful of it, start chewing up the flour tortillas. Water won’t help a bit, in either case.
Then throw in some turkey and you’ve got yourself a sandwich!
I worked a pizza place during my high school summer job days and one night I’m assigned to chop onions in food prep. I was using a restaurant grade french fry cutter and once I got into the routine, I could safely close my eyes and just keep on cycling the skinned onions through. After about 10 minutes the manager came back and told me I had done enough because people in the dining area were complaining.
I admire your desire to spice up your life. Try new things. But seriously, jalapenos are for kids.
Habaneros, they are for adults.