Random Thought Thread

I'll give you guys a little warning right now. Even if you just touch the outside of a bottle of Carolina Reaper Squeezin's while opening it and don't think you got any on your fingers, do NOT wipe your eyes before you wash your hands first! Even if you just touch a Carolina Reaper pepper, do NOT wipe your eyes before you wash your hands first! You have been warned...
 
000Robert said:
I'll give you guys a little warning right now. Even if you just touch the outside of a bottle of Carolina Reaper Squeezin's while opening it and don't think you got any on your fingers, do NOT wipe your eyes before you wash your hands first! Even if you just touch a Carolina Reaper pepper, do NOT wipe your eyes before you wash your hands first! You have been warned...
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Been there, done that.
 
Not so random but because you guys are talking about hot peppers.

About 20 years ago a friend of my wife’s was making one of her husbands favorite meals. Fajitas. He likes them spicy. So when she sautés the green pepper and onions she would also slice up a bunch of fresh jalapeños to sauté with the green pepper and onions. They live in a small town/city and she gets her veggies at the farmers market. There were no jalapeños. The guy who she usually got her jalapeños from said - Sorry, but if your husband likes spicy then he will love these. - and sold her a bag of habanero peppers.
She took them home and started dinner. She sautés the veggies in stages. Onions for a couple minutes, then adds the green peppers, and finally the hot peppers for a minute (because he likes them to remain crisp).
Husband is in the next room snoozing on the couch while she gets dinner ready.
Everything was going great until she threw the habanero peppers in the pan. She said it was like being blasted point blank with mace. She was immediately choking and couldn’t see. Stumbled towards the back door (which was partially open because she was cooking), ran into the door edge on which knocked her to the ground. She quickly regained her feet, still blind, and bolted through - and I mean through - the screen door and fell off the stoop. She lay there choking and trying to regain her vision and voice so she could yell to her husband. He woke up choking and blinded on the couch. Attempted to go towards the kitchen but couldn’t and made it out the front door. He made his way to the backyard where his wife was still recovering. As she got her voice back she quickly explained what happened and that she wasn’t able to turn the burner off. So he had to hold his breath and go into the kitchen and turn the stove off.
They went out to dinner while the house aired out.
 
My oldest son, about 4 years ago cut up a bunch of habaneros for dinner and before washing his hands, went to the bathroom….. his wife was pouring milk on his junk and anything else while laughing her ass off. He actually admitted that one to us!!
 
000Robert said:
I'll give you guys a little warning right now. Even if you just touch the outside of a bottle of Carolina Reaper Squeezin's while opening it and don't think you got any on your fingers, do NOT wipe your eyes before you wash your hands first! Even if you just touch a Carolina Reaper pepper, do NOT wipe your eyes before you wash your hands first! You have been warned...
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...or go to use the bathroom without washing your hands really well, first... 😂

 
I am no connoisseur when it comes to extremely hot and spicy peppers like some of the ones mentioned in here but I do eat a few raw Serrano peppers (prefer green over red) every day with lunch/dinner. I find Jalapeños a bit milder in general while preferring Serranos which can deliver more of a kick. Not too fond on hot sauces but I do sometimes use the Ghost and Habanero ones from Trader Joe's.

Being close to Mexico means that we can get good fresh Serranos still at reasonable prices although they have also gone up in price considerably selling for about 1.69 - 1.99 per lb. in chain supermarkets but they are fresh and healthy as opposed to the wilted and languished ones which I have seen at grocery stores further up north. If / when I leave So. Cal, I will miss my almost daily diet of Serranos and fresh Mexican avocados, c'est la vie!
 
Cap’n Smudge said:
Not so random but because you guys are talking about hot peppers.

About 20 years ago a friend of my wife’s was making one of her husbands favorite meals. Fajitas. He likes them spicy. So when she sautés the green pepper and onions she would also slice up a bunch of fresh jalapeños to sauté with the green pepper and onions. They live in a small town/city and she gets her veggies at the farmers market. There were no jalapeños. The guy who she usually got her jalapeños from said - Sorry, but if your husband likes spicy then he will love these. - and sold her a bag of habanero peppers.
She took them home and started dinner. She sautés the veggies in stages. Onions for a couple minutes, then adds the green peppers, and finally the hot peppers for a minute (because he likes them to remain crisp).
Husband is in the next room snoozing on the couch while she gets dinner ready.
Everything was going great until she threw the habanero peppers in the pan. She said it was like being blasted point blank with mace. She was immediately choking and couldn’t see. Stumbled towards the back door (which was partially open because she was cooking), ran into the door edge on which knocked her to the ground. She quickly regained her feet, still blind, and bolted through - and I mean through - the screen door and fell off the stoop. She lay there choking and trying to regain her vision and voice so she could yell to her husband. He woke up choking and blinded on the couch. Attempted to go towards the kitchen but couldn’t and made it out the front door. He made his way to the backyard where his wife was still recovering. As she got her voice back she quickly explained what happened and that she wasn’t able to turn the burner off. So he had to hold his breath and go into the kitchen and turn the stove off.
They went out to dinner while the house aired out.
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I've heard stories similar to that and I don't believe them. I have been eating hot peppers my entire life. I've eaten them all over this country when I drove big trucks. I also lived in New Mexico for about one year. I have never eaten a habanero, or a sauce made with them, that was hot to me. They don't even come close to the heat of a Carolina Reaper pepper.
 
sickpuppy1 said:
My oldest son, about 4 years ago cut up a bunch of habaneros for dinner and before washing his hands, went to the bathroom….. his wife was pouring milk on his junk and anything else while laughing her ass off. He actually admitted that one to us!!
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Maybe they were jalapenos and they just thought that they were habaneros?
 
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