my fingers burn from cutting fresh jalapeno? milk, soap & baking soda didn't help. any other suggestions?

Answer 1

If it's crazy-bad -- I once spent a few _hours_ with my hand in a bowl of iced milk; thoroughly learned the necessary lesson -- and you're near a pharmacy that's still open, there's stuff designed to wash with after you've been in contact with poison ivy. I'm pretty sure that would do the trick...

Considerably less involved would be to clean your hands with rubbing alcohol. I suspect it might be almost as effective, too.

Take some painkillers, and, well, put the affected fingers in iced milk, and use the other hand to raise beer to and from your mouth. I'm pretty sure that last part was what helped me through it.

Answer 2

First, scrub your hands with a product like Simple Green or a dish soap designed to remove oil. Regular soap won't necessarily get rid of the oil from the peppers, which is causing your skin to burn.

Then apply a lotion or gel with aloe vera and lanocaine as two of its main ingredients -- the stuff that they use in the summer for treating sun burns. The gel and lanocaine will help take the sting out of what amounts to a chemical burn.

And next time, wear rubber gloves, please, so that you don't burn your poor fingers. Jalapenos and serranos mean business! :-)

Answer 3

No, but a guy I worked with at a restaurant once had his hands in jalapeno juice right before going to the bathroom. He didn't wash his hands off before going, and, well I probably don't need to get into any more detail. I think you can figure it out.

Answer 4

soak fingers in milk. It neutralizes the acid content of the jalapeno.

Answer 5

Sounds like you have a cut on your finger or fingers and don't realize it......just keep your finger undercold water till it goes away and takes some aspirin or tylenol......it will go away soon....next time cut with some rubber gloves...trust me ...sometimes i wear my big sun glasses when i'm cuttung onions...lol! it helps!

Answer 6

Wash your hands again, real good and then get some mayonnaise and rub it in like you would lotion. I know it sounds nasty and will feel as yucky, but this will make the sting go away. You can repeat as needed, but make sure that you wash your hands each time.

Answer 7

Use plastic gloves or take some hamburger and squash it like you were making hamburgers. Ground beef is excellent for removing almost any thing from your hands.

Answer 8

Latex gloves

Answer 9

uhm, i suggest, you should avoid touching the seeds instead. :)

Most sources agree that the heat, due to capsaicin and related compounds, is concentrated in the seeds and the veins — deseeding and deveining can reduce the heat imparted to a recipe that includes jalapeños.

Answer 10

first of all you should use latex gloves when preparing peppers..and there isn`t really a remedy for this but try burn gel or aloe cream..