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My dad loves spicy food, so my mom grows habaneros and jalapenos for him out in her garden. One year she even did some Carolina reapers, but she refused after the first year. When the harvest is winding down, she dehydrates them and grinds them into a powder for him to use as a seasoning.
I made the mistake of visiting them when she was doing that. She was walking around with a mask and goggles and I quickly figured out why. The dehydrator turns the kitchen into a biohazard zone. Like tear gas all throughout.
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Okay, but ice isn't good for this; it's a chemical burn, and capsaicin is fat-soluble. You ideally want something like milk. Meanwhile, on your hands (assuming some of it got on those), you want to cover your hands in oil and then wash them with dish soap (and once those are clean, if there's residual burning, you can use topical pain treatments).
Edit: My understanding of the term "chemical burn" was mistaken. Thanks to @Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world for calling me out on this. I didn't know it had to be corrosive or cytotoxic to be a "chemical burn"; I thought irritants generally were included.
Edit 2: Actually, looking further into this, I'm not so sure I was technically wrong at the level of capsaicin you'd be exposing yourself to with a Carolina Reaper. Capsaicin can be cytotoxic. I wonder now if very minor nerve death occurs at this level of spice. Either way, that's not the main problem if it's even happening; my comment was wrong regardless of possible technical accuracy.
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Milk helps.
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Can you imagine the surprise of their unsuspecting neighbor, who was just trying to grow some bell peppers, but which got pollinated with the Reaper?
I thought that was some mold
I grew some reapers a while ago. The difference in heat between them and a standard habanero is comical.
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Bullshit. Your mouth would be 100% ok after two hours. This whole post is full of shit.
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