Tacos! What's In Yours?

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DiO'Bolic

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Hot Pepper Hands: An Easy Way to Stop the Burn | The Kitchn

How to Cool Burns from Chili Peppers: 6 Steps (with Pictures)

My idea would be to mix baking soda into a paste and apply that to your hands. Baking soda is alkaline, while peppers are acidic, so that should cause a pH balance to occur removing the acid. Vinegar is also alkaline, but the odor might be difficult to control.
I like the wine idea in the link. And nothing would go to waste ;). I just have to remember to try and touch as little as I can. Leaving pepper residue on things I touch that my wife later touches has put me in the doghouse a number of times. :)
 

Sigmund

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Kind of an aside, but maybe my question can be answered here. I grow Hungarian Wax hot peppers (the only kind I like). I pick them from the garden and slice them up. I’ll wash my hands with soap and water afterwards up to 4 times. Still, if I touch my hands anywhere near my eyes up to 5 hours afterwards I go temporarily blind with pain for about half an hour, and often have to flush them. Is there a trick to getting the pepper heat from your hands after slicing hot peppers?

Hi.

Use disposable rubber gloves next time.

*Wash* your hands with tomato sauce, vodka or WD-40.

Being Hispanic, when we enchilar our hands handling peppers we rub our hands through hair. (Just use washing motions through human hair. Works.)

Peace.
 

blunthead

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Hi.

Use disposable rubber gloves next time.

*Wash* your hands with tomato sauce, vodka or WD-40.

Being Hispanic, when we enchilar our hands handling peppers we rub our hands through hair. (Just use washing motions through human hair. Works.)

Peace.
Wash with vodka, are you insane?! Oh the waste!!! The humanity!!! The insanity!!!
 

DiO'Bolic

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Uh huh, wise marriage lessons.
LOL. Once it was so bad, she told me to go get a hotel room because she didn't want to see me and would kill me if I stuck around. The pain she experienced in her eyes was so extreme that I didn't argue and felt lucky to get out of the house. But I just slept in the car out in the driveway.
 

DiO'Bolic

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Nov 14, 2013
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Poconos, PA
Hi.

Use disposable rubber gloves next time.

*Wash* your hands with tomato sauce, vodka or WD-40.

Being Hispanic, when we enchilar our hands handling peppers we rub our hands through hair. (Just use washing motions through human hair. Works.)

Peace.
Does WE-40 really work? I always have some on hand. WD-40 and Duct Tape is a man's basic survival kit.
 

Lily Sawyer

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I do a taco bar like Dana Jean. Mine includes:

both soft yellow corn tortillas and fried yellow corn taco shells

shredded lettuce
diced tomatoes
grated Monterey Jack cheese
crumbled cotija cheese
ground chuck with taco seasoning
pickled mild banana pepper rings
finely-chopped yellow onion
sour cream
black olives
finely-chopped jalapeños
heated homemade refritos (chili powder, cumin, garlic, salt, and if there's any around, a little bacon drippings)
homemade California-Mex guacamole (avocado, grated onion, cumin, lime juice, salt, sour cream)
homemade salsa (tomatoes, cilantro, grated onion, salt)
Crystal hot sauce
Tabasco sauce

I leave the heat factor up to each individual. I love hot food but have to restrain myself, as hot food doesn't like me. Others I know love things NASA hot.
 

not_nadine

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skimom2

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Flour tortillas for bean & cheese burritos or turkey or ground beef tacos (with all the fixins). I make my own flour tortillas, but have no idea how to make corn.

Corn tortillas for carne asada or al pastor tacos, or for tostadas.

We seriously love our tacos at this house :)
 

xkittyx

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We usually get the crunchy shells. Then I fry up ground beef or ground turkey and use the Ortega seasoning pack. Then I put out shredded lettuce and diced tomatoes and black olives and shredded carrots (yea, I'm odd) and cheese and sauce and stuff for people to put what they want on it. I don't like my lettuce getting warm and soggy, so I make a salad with it and the olives and cheese and taco sauce and carrots, with ranch dressing. Then on my taco shell I put the meat and cheese and sauce with the olives and carrots, and again with a little ranch. I'm the only one in the house who likes sour cream, which is why I don't buy it and we use the ranch instead. It might be weird, but to me it's freakin' delicious to the max and I'm drooling just thinking about having some! Need to go buy the stuff to make em, it's been too long! :dribble:
 

Sigmund

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Flour tortillas for bean & cheese burritos or turkey or ground beef tacos (with all the fixins). I make my own flour tortillas, but have no idea how to make corn.
Corn tortillas for carne asada or al pastor tacos, or for tostadas.

We seriously love our tacos at this house :)

Hi, Ma'am.

You make your own flour tortillas! :blues:

It took me awhile to learn how to roll and turn the testales . Ha!

Have mercy! There were many a times when I rolled some flour tortillas that were...shall we say...in odd shapes. My Daddy always said (In Spanish) it doesn't matter the shape, it's about the taste."

(I never was able to get the technique of hand making corn tortillas. But my Tias were awesome.)

What about carne guisada tacos?

Peace.