So, I'm just cooking tea.
Decide that there's an opportune moment to go to the loo. Obviously I wash my hands before resuming cooking operations.
After a minute or two I realise that all is not well downstairs. Hopping from foot to foot. Cold sweat. Hot snooker cue. Two plus two equals? Has anyone guessed that I had just been handling dried chillies?
Sometimes, you have to remember to wash your hands before handling meat.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh
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At our xmas party I got someone some very hot chilli sauce, and we were all trying it and a bloke had a similar accident... He spent 20 minutes in his chair shaking, we were worried we might have to take him to A&E or stick it in a glass of milk!
Yoghurt is used in Indian restaurants for many purposes.
my eyes are watering at the thought..........
roasted nuts anyone?
That has happened to me quite a few times. The pain is not immediate but slowly comes on and then gets worse and worse, is like a frozen/burning sensation and is very unpleasant. Have had to have a shower to fully clean my poor frazzled bits.
Nowadays I am wiser. I wash my hands extensively after chopping chilis, and even then I try and wee hands free.
Also....careful not to rub your eyes...ouch!
This will be well known to anyone who has been in HM forces and undergone the annual gasmask test, in a tent full of CS gas ...
Yep yoghurt - there's a thread on here about ten years back where the ralgex migrated from my inner thigh migrated to give a similar situation
When I was at uni a similar thing happened to me, and I was given a very useful tip by one of my housemates who was a bit of a chef. He told me that after handling chillies you should rub your hands with salt to get all of the chilli residue out of your pores, then rinse under cold water.
Better still, the advice from Madhur Jaffrey, famous Indian TV chef.
Wear rubber gloves to handle or chop chillies.
(This assumes a modicum of intelligence, that you are going to remove them before the next thing you need to do.)