Got pepper spray in a contact lens back in high school. The chemicals just get soaked into the lens, there's no way to save them. Every time you put the lens back in after trying to clean it is like getting sprayed all over again.
This is why geeks gave us disposable contact lenses. The correct sequence: (1) Put contacts in; (2) Apply Gold Bond; (3) Go out and eat jalapenos. You may get dressed between steps (2) and (3), if you wish.
wv = "dadersh:" the way that someone pronounces "that hurts" while in the throes of an ocular jalapeno residue experience.
I got Jalapeño oil in my eye once. It was extremely painful and my eye was gushing. That's as close as I want to get to actually feeling like my eye is melting away.
The Wife is very cautious around me when I make nachos. The very first time I made a batch, early in our relationship, I gave her a big fat wet smack right on her lips. It took her about 5 seconds to figure it out and luckily I was able to escape the kitchen intact.
Several years ago, my wife was making a lovely chicken soup with finely diced habañeros and absentmindedly touched her bare eye. The shriek got me on my feet faster than I thought I could move. I took her straight to the tub with a gallon jug of 2% milk and began irrigating the pure evil. 10 minutes later she could breathe again. 20 minutes later she was okay to stand up.
I reckon whole milk would've worked better. The soup was fantastic.
As for the habaneros, the capsaicin in them will get stuck in your cuticles. So even if you think you washed your hands well - dishsoap and all - you probably didn't.
I learned about habaneros when my buddy's wife fed me one. I didn't know what it was, but if they didn't have a name already I'd have called them "little orange thing of doom" or something. That was a trip.
Been there, done that. (Life in the Southwest.)
ReplyDeleteThrow them away.
Good LORD!
ReplyDeleteGot pepper spray in a contact lens back in high school. The chemicals just get soaked into the lens, there's no way to save them. Every time you put the lens back in after trying to clean it is like getting sprayed all over again.
ReplyDeleteThat's why Alton Brown wears glasses. He messed up his eyes doing something to his contacts with pepper residue on his hands.
ReplyDeleteOh God oh God oh God I don't even WEAR contacts and my eyes are watering.
ReplyDeleteEenteresting tidbit about A.Brown, though. Doesn't surprise me at all that you watch him, Og.
Umm yup it sure would, while I have not done jalapeno on my contacts I have put in my contacts after putting on some Gold Bond.
ReplyDeleteIt was an interesting experience.
This is why geeks gave us disposable contact lenses. The correct sequence:
ReplyDelete(1) Put contacts in;
(2) Apply Gold Bond;
(3) Go out and eat jalapenos.
You may get dressed between steps (2) and (3), if you wish.
wv = "dadersh:" the way that someone pronounces "that hurts" while in the throes of an ocular jalapeno residue experience.
I got Jalapeño oil in my eye once. It was extremely painful and my eye was gushing. That's as close as I want to get to actually feeling like my eye is melting away.
ReplyDeleteThe Wife is very cautious around me when I make nachos. The very first time I made a batch, early in our relationship, I gave her a big fat wet smack right on her lips. It took her about 5 seconds to figure it out and luckily I was able to escape the kitchen intact.
ReplyDelete17 years later she's still pissed off about it.
Regards,
Rabbit.
Alton who?
ReplyDeleteSeveral years ago, my wife was making a lovely chicken soup with finely diced habañeros and absentmindedly touched her bare eye. The shriek got me on my feet faster than I thought I could move. I took her straight to the tub with a gallon jug of 2% milk and began irrigating the pure evil. 10 minutes later she could breathe again. 20 minutes later she was okay to stand up.
ReplyDeleteI reckon whole milk would've worked better. The soup was fantastic.
Been there, done that too. An overnight soak in solution removed the jalapeno residue.
ReplyDeleteI'd bin them, you only get two eyeballs.
ReplyDeleteAs for the habaneros, the capsaicin in them will get stuck in your cuticles. So even if you think you washed your hands well - dishsoap and all - you probably didn't.
I learned about habaneros when my buddy's wife fed me one. I didn't know what it was, but if they didn't have a name already I'd have called them "little orange thing of doom" or something. That was a trip.
Jim
BTDT - Pizza parlor cook, 1982. Wiping one's hands on a towel after making a pizza with jalepenos does not, repeat not, get everything off your hands.
ReplyDeleteBut it's not as bad as having a fuel line splash raw gasoline across both eyes at the same time. 1986.
Still have both eyes and still wearing contacts. Amazing.