how to avoid burns on the hands while cook with hot chili pepper?

Question

Recently cooked with red hot chili peppers afterward my hands start to feel hot and it burns. Even after i wash my hands with soaps many times, it doesn't work. It's there a way to cook with hot peppers and avoid hands being burns afterward???

Answer 1

I know everyone says gloves, and yes that works fine. But who has rubber gloves always on hand or wants to put them on just to chop up a quick hot pepper to put in the dish.

I have worked out a way to do the pepper without coming in contact with the bad parts.

The heat is in the seeds and the white membrane parts inside.

So if you don't touch those parts you're OK.

Cut the pepper in half lengthwise. Hold it on the outside only. Use a small spoon and scoop out the insides (seeds and membranes). Or for a small pepper, hold with tongs. Place it on your board and chop without touching it.

Wash off the board and knife without touching them. Use lots of soap.

Works every time.

If the vapors in the air bother you (or family), take it outside to perform the same procedure. Then put it in a glass of water when you take it back into the house.

Answer 2

You can buy a package of latex gloves in the supermarket in the household products section, by the mops and brooms. Be careful of the items you use when you're handling peppers, too, like the knife you cut them with, and the cutting board, and any surfaces (countertop), bowls or plates. They will carry the oils. Use a paper towel or napkin when you remove the gloves so you don't transfer the oils to your fingers when you remove them. Throw them away, don't reuse them, you'll get the oils all over your hands again.

Answer 3

Wear gloves. You can buy surgical gloves at Bed Bath and Beyond or Linens and Things. They aren't costly but come in handy for things like that. Imagine if you were cutting Jamaican Bonnets. Theyre the hottest peppers around. The oil can't be washed off.

Answer 4

Probably someone has already said it, but you need to wear light weight gloves(disposable) when handling these hot chilis! Some people are so sensitive they also should were goggles, their glasses, or sunglasses!
Buy a box at your drug store or Sam's Club..They stay good for years!

As far as cooking with them, wear your glasses and gloves! Then you should be okay! Even people who use them daily have the same problem.

Answer 5

It's the seeds that burn you. Wear dish gloves and remove all the seeds. Then you can either take off the gloves to work with the peppers or keep them on just in case. Somehow the seeds don't bother my hands. But I'm male and once I went to the bathroom . . .

Answer 6

1. wear rubber gloves. (most effective way)
2. when working w/the peppers, do all of the handling under running water. (only somewhat effective, as it is the oils that cause the 'heat')
3. after working w/peppers, use a soap/wash that is high in oil cutting abilities (Dawn, Goop, etc) it will remove more of the oils than regular soap/water is able to.

Answer 7

I always wear latex gloves when I handle hot peppers - I wear contacts, and the pain is unbelievable if the oil is still in your skin when you try to take them out!

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Answer 9

Latex cooking gloves.

Answer 10

Wear gloves! Plastic ones, not the latex!