Its better that only your fingers burned after cutting peppers. I've felt burns...in other places after pepper chopping. Wash you hands after chopping peppers kids, and also wash your hands BEFORE going to the bath-room also.I was chopping peppers today for a meal I'm making tomorrow, and now my fingers burn and are really annoying. It was only an Anaheim pepper, too. I'm so glad it wasn't a Serrano (I've always worn a glove when cutting those before.) I think it hurts extra because I've been doing work carrying and moving a lot of different stuff the last few days setting up and taking down for my church's fundraiser bazaar. So my hands are pretty chapped. Still: whine, whine, whine... my fingers are burning.
Wash your hands with oil (vegetable or olive, not motor) or rubbing alcohol. I've heard positive reviews about using lime juice or white vinegar as well but I can't attest to the effectiveness of those. The idea with the first two is that capsacin, the burning chemical in peppers, breaks down with alcohol or fats (such as those in oil).I was chopping peppers today for a meal I'm making tomorrow, and now my fingers burn and are really annoying. It was only an Anaheim pepper, too. I'm so glad it wasn't a Serrano (I've always worn a glove when cutting those before.) I think it hurts extra because I've been doing work carrying and moving a lot of different stuff the last few days setting up and taking down for my church's fundraiser bazaar. So my hands are pretty chapped. Still: whine, whine, whine... my fingers are burning.
I'm just going to take that completely out of context and giggle to myselfI've used rubbing alcohol and heavy cream. Both helped.
It's not so much that it breaks down, but that it more readily mixes with oil or alcohol than with water*, allowing it to be washed away. Remember that the next time you are inadvertently exposed to some urushiol....capsacin, the burning chemical in peppers, breaks down with alcohol or fats (such as those in oil).
I find that sentence amusing, given your current avatar.Be glad you don't have my brain folks.
People are always happiest when they have some bin they can put you into, accurate or not.PatrThomIts like I stop being a bearded weirdo once I say I have Aspbergers, and then I'm just some guy with "certain quirks". It bugs me at times.
Sou...I'm just going to take that completely out of context and giggle to myself
So Yoshi pretended to be a Koopa?Ah the bin, those were fun times as a kid. Sometimes I'd pretend I was a turtle!
Or Ninja turtle! Kinda hard carrying the thing around but fun times none the less.So Yoshi pretended to be a Koopa?
For future reference, quickly turn it over so the keyboard faces down, that way water isn't rushing to the computer's innards.Good news: I wrote a good 2,000 some words on my novel today.
Bad news: I spilled water on my laptop. In a panic, I turned it off and mopped up what I could with paper towel. But now, it won't turn back off. Posting this from my phone but I might not be very active for the next few days.
Also put it in rice! Or is that cell-phones? Either way, just buy more rice any way. You never know when rice will save your life.For future reference, quickly turn it over so the keyboard faces down, that way water isn't rushing to the computer's innards.
I thought about clarifying when I re-read my post a little while later, and then I thought, "Nah, no one gives a shit."It's not so much that it breaks down, but that it more readily mixes with oil or alcohol than with water*, allowing it to be washed away. Remember that the next time you are inadvertently exposed to some urushiol.
I find that sentence amusing, given your current avatar.
I'm not an Aspie (though some seem to think so), but I completely get where you're coming from.
--Patrick
*Handy exercise of how being a polar/non-polar solid affects solubility over here.
Currently I'm suffering from a candy surplus. All the sugar is not good for my health.Due to my poor candy budgeting practices, I find myself running a candy deficit which will result in candy bankruptcy if I don't get my wife to pass a new resolution that will provide a new source of candy for the household soon. Such a resolution will result in greater dependance on foreign candy, but screw the future - I want candy now!
We can do a candy transfer? My Mum always has candy surplus, ALWAYS. I wish I could say she has only one cupboard full of candy dishes, but no, she has at least two. And the dishes that are out, which is probably about 5 at a time are filled to the brim. Each one filled with a different treat.Due to my poor candy budgeting practices, I find myself running a candy deficit which will result in candy bankruptcy if I don't get my wife to pass a new resolution that will provide a new source of candy for the household soon. Such a resolution will result in greater dependance on foreign candy, but screw the future - I want candy now!
13 feet or 13 inches?
Cuz if there has been 13 feet at the beginning of November...I am afeared.