A word to the wise...
...never, ever rub your eyes or even put your hands in the vicinity of your face after you have prepared a meal with a habanero pepper.
A friend gave me a little Caribbean Red habanero plant, and I served slices of one of the peppers with dinner yesterday (potato burritos, refried beans, etc.). Even a tiny bite filled the entire mouth with a righteous, white-hot heat. I thought, that is one mother of a pepper! (About 445,000 Scoville units, according to my reference, twice as hot as the usual habanero.)
After dinner, I cleaned up and washed my hands in the bathroom. I noticed something in my eye and without thinking swiped it with my finger. Big mistake. Immediately, I had a sensation of acid being splashed in my eye. Rubbing my eyes not only spread the sensation all over that eyeball, but somehow into the other eye as well. I had been pepper sprayed!
I was literally incapacitated for 10 minutes. Washing out the eyes in the sink was necessary but didn't help the pain. Opening my eyes made the pain worse. The only thing that really helped was putting a cold wet cloth over my closed eyelids. (It was a weird kind of neuritic pain, like a tingly burn, not like a traumatic injury. I could ALMOST experience it as an interesting sensation, like putting BenGay on a sore muscle, if it weren't so doggone intense.)
I'm happy to report, no permanent ill effects. I resolve here and now never to prepare peppers without wearing rubber gloves, never to wipe my eyes after touching said peppers, and to avoid riots and other situations where pepper spray is likely to be used.
A friend gave me a little Caribbean Red habanero plant, and I served slices of one of the peppers with dinner yesterday (potato burritos, refried beans, etc.). Even a tiny bite filled the entire mouth with a righteous, white-hot heat. I thought, that is one mother of a pepper! (About 445,000 Scoville units, according to my reference, twice as hot as the usual habanero.)
After dinner, I cleaned up and washed my hands in the bathroom. I noticed something in my eye and without thinking swiped it with my finger. Big mistake. Immediately, I had a sensation of acid being splashed in my eye. Rubbing my eyes not only spread the sensation all over that eyeball, but somehow into the other eye as well. I had been pepper sprayed!
I was literally incapacitated for 10 minutes. Washing out the eyes in the sink was necessary but didn't help the pain. Opening my eyes made the pain worse. The only thing that really helped was putting a cold wet cloth over my closed eyelids. (It was a weird kind of neuritic pain, like a tingly burn, not like a traumatic injury. I could ALMOST experience it as an interesting sensation, like putting BenGay on a sore muscle, if it weren't so doggone intense.)
I'm happy to report, no permanent ill effects. I resolve here and now never to prepare peppers without wearing rubber gloves, never to wipe my eyes after touching said peppers, and to avoid riots and other situations where pepper spray is likely to be used.
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