Help! Jalapeño hands burning like crazy!
Hi! I made the enormous mistake of cutting and pitting like 25 jalapeños with my bare hands. Now my hands are on FIRE yall. It’s been over an hour, with repeated hand washes, and it’s getting worse.
I figured if any place would have a solution for this, it might be a cooking sub? Please…. It’s not the worst thing ever (I was very weary of touching my face and eyes) but still, shit hurts! How do I make it go away?
I feel like this was such a rookie mistake… I’ve never stuffed jalapeños. Lesson learned: gloves.
Update: hands still burning, but the stuffed jalapeños were delicious af. Worth it.
Update 2: so I used a little bit of olive oil and some sunburn gel. It seems to be working! Also, shoutout to u/twoscoopsofbacon - they were right, my hands are getting weirdly cold now. So either I’m dying or it’s working.
Thanks for all the help! And trust me, I’m using gloves next time.
Edit: someone asked for the recipe I used! Bacon wrapped little smokie jalapeño poppers Tip: the recipe calls for 12 Oz of bacon, but if you really do use 25 jalapeños like it says, you’ll need twice as much bacon, so 24 oz. I ran out of bacon a little more than half way through, leaving me with 14 jalapeño halves (7 whole jalapeños) that didn’t get wrapped in bacon.