An old joke, possibly originating from somewhere in the basement of a DuPont facility:
How can you tell a chemist apart from an engineer?
…
The chemist washes his hands before he takes a leak.
Small victories.
Submitted 1 month ago by YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not me. I ate a jalapeno today that was the hottest fucker in the bunch. Forgot to wash my hands. Both my mouth and eyes were on fire. Worth it.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I like to jam my fingers up my nose after. Really clears the sinuses.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Almost intense as a neti pot
snooggums@piefed.world 1 month ago
I just picked up more nitrile gloves for chopping jalepenos because I forgot once.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I should probably do that. Feels like you can scrub your fingers pretty decently after cutting peppers, and there’s still a bit of residual burn when you touch sensitive areas. Maybe it depends on the spice level of the pepper, but I don’t generally go above habs for eating raw, so it’s not like I’m chopping reapers or even ghosts.
snooggums@piefed.world 1 month ago
It’s the oils that stick to the skin, gets in the pores and is difficult to scrub out.
DarthPub@retrofed.com 1 month ago
My god, you are truly a god amongst men.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’ve eaten nearly exclusively spicy food for many years and have only been eye spiced once. I generally don’t even wash my hands after, and often touch my face and eyes while cooking because of my hair. It almost feels like a fairy tale to me, the idea of getting eye spiced. Like, are people irritating their eyes with peppers spicier than serrano, arbol, and pequin peppers?
But I would like some advice for an ongoing issue, I still can’t figure out how to prevent my home from filling with painfully spicy air when I stir fry. Any advice on that front?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
You and I are on two different ends of this spectrum cause I also eat almost exclusively spicy food, but never get bothered by anything airborne. Anything I handle something fresh my fingies are all up inside those guts, but a lot of what I deal with is dried so that’s really only jalapenos and serrano.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s hilarious! I usually eat the seeds or gut the peppers halfhazardly with a couple of knife sweeps through the flesh. I guess my hands only get a small coating by comparison.
But what are you cooking on? I’m usually on a cast iron with olive/canola oil on medium to medium high
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I have the same issue. Fried some tofu a few days ago with a ghost pepper coating, and wow – I had the evacuate the kitchen for half an hour!
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Life Pro Tip: If they’re too spicy, you can soak the cut pieces in water to reduce the heat.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I make pith-in quickled jalapeno fuckers and it never dawned on me that it might have been diffusion!
Thanks for answering a question I’ve had for longer than reasonable.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Congratulations! I hope sometime I will have a similar perfect day!
wizblizz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No mouth stuff or you’re gonna have a bad time.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Actually some of it must’ve gotten in the corner of my nail and cuticle cause I just wrestled with an eye booger and had an unpleasant 30-ish seconds.
azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Don’t forget to clean ur hands BEFORE you pee
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pro tip: wear gloves while cutting them, at least on the hand used to handle the chilies.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Also pro tip: don’t touch your gf all over when she just got home and greets you while cutting peppers, because she screamed so loud in agony when I touched her clit. It was truly horrible and I still feel shit about it, even though we broke up years ago for other reasons.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also: don’t rub your eyes when something itches you…
thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Face touching sucks, but penis is worse
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Can’t touch your penis after cooking, if you continue to hold it while cooking.
thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Allow me to stir the soup!
4grams@awful.systems 1 month ago
Reapers man, let’s just say I wash extremely well these days after cutting them up.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 days ago
I feel there is a traumatizing story that is meant to follow.
thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yikes. Rubber gloves help lol
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Words to live by.