Lesson of the Day: Judge not, lest ye be adjudged. And sometimes the judgement is quick!

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michael-in-phoenix

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I was pulling the tops off a pile of Thai bird chilis that I had dried myself. I was tossing away the stems and putting the rest into the bowl of my food processor. I wanted to grind them into small pieces and put them in a jar for future use. All Good.

I launched into a highly condescending tone as handling these chilis reminded me of a video I had seen earlier in the week. I'm telling my family about it: this brainiac 20-something was filmed eating a chili from India that is rated as the hottest in the world. He wanted to show how tough he was, and he was really pouring on the mockery and arrogance. Well, as you would expect, the chili WON. He was gagging and spitting, etc., and they finally turned the camera off. What an ignorant jackwagon, says me...arrogantly.

I proceed to grind the Thai chilis into small pieces and then open the food processor to empty the ground remainder into a jar. Oy. OY. OYYYY! The fine dust of the chilis immediately permeated the air of the kitchen, and then the whole house! I was gagging and spitting and my family ran into the backyard, coughing. Good job, DAD.

We opened the house up in 90 degree heat, and aired the place out with fans. A few minutes later it was safe to return, but we are all still getting stuffed up.

That'll learn me not be so arrogant towards the stupidity of others, at least until I look in the mirror and check THAT GUY'S IQ!

Michael...sniff!

 
Gosh Michael, what do you do with those very hot chilis?

Funny story to tell company, not so funny when it happens, right?

 
I always wondered if people were exaggerating when

they said to do things like peppers or fresh horseradish by taking the food processor outside.

 
Michael, I'm afraid you've reluctantly earned your first HAZMAT training!!

LOL!! Sorry, but I've endured close to same when making Drunken Noodles WITH the seeds of Bird's Eye (Thai Chilies). Fortunately, I don't need my rubber gloves to handle them, but too many seeds make for very teary-eyed woman with fire breath! I've used these powerful chilis many times but know that I have to tame them by deseeding a bit.

It's the seeds Michael. Don't you worry, I'll never call you a wimp - I promise! LOL

http://www.eat.at/swap/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=111568

 
Laughing now, but not so at the time! I use a pinch here and there in a lot of ...

...different foods.

I eat a lot of lean ground turkey and I try to spice it up whenever possible.

Michael

 
Reminds me of trying to teach the pesky squirrels a lesson.

I added this 'mixture' to my birdseed that is supposed to deter squirrels. Pure finely ground peppers. DH went to put some seed in the feeder without knowing it and it nearly killed him. He was SO mad at me.

I toast and grind hot peppers all the time and have learned the hard way that no matter what and no matter if it's liquid or dry, don't open the top too fast.

 
Ha! One day I was shopping at the 99 Only store and was checking the crushed chili . . .

which came in a cellophane packet. I gave it a strong snort and all of the sudden, one of my eyes started burning--I got one measly little piece of crushed chili in it. It was so bad that I could do nothing but stand there and tear up terribly. Of course my husband stands there and observes me. Then as my eyes are starting to clear, I notice another guy watching me-- a friend of mine's(Paula) husband, and he says, "You remind me of Paula. . . "

Never did see Paula!

 
And then a word of advice for Penzey's ground red Chipotle pepper. . .

This stuff is delish, but if you powder your poached eggs with it, DO NOT inhale just before taking a bite. . .

 
Hubby loves the heat, so one birthday

while he was on duty at the hospital our son (I think he was around smileys/bigeyes.gif and I decided to surprise him with a sausage stuffed braided bread made extra hot. I used our own dried habs in the dough and while cooking the sausage along with a dried hot chile custom mix and fresh peppers in the sausage. It came out gorgeous, so I wrapped it up and we rushed it to the hospital. While getting into the curving lane that would lead to the base I made the mistake of rubbing my eyes. I was tearing so heavily I couldn't see PMO wave me aboard. I'm still not sure how I found the hospital, LOL.

 
Yeah. I got confused when the eat.at came back up and

it wouldn't let me log in so I ended up with a new login. But now, if I log in from here, it's desertjean. If I log in from eat.at it's desertcook. Of course I am a gemini and hubby says I have to personalities to go with, so maybe my cooking is now split into two personalities as well, LOL

 
I did that eating Szechuan once and after an overnight in emerg, it took me 10 years to get over it.

 
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