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method for chopping jalapenos?
DH and I are making homemade salsa as a holiday gift. We have the hardest time chopping jalapenos, though. I get one whiff of them (when cut open) and have a coughing fit and can't breathe. It's making this process take a long time. Do you have a method for chopping them that helps you not feel like you are choking to death? TIA!
p.s. DH actually said last night "What I wouldn't do for a Slap Chop right now...." Ha ha.
Business Cat.
Re: method for chopping jalapenos?
Hmmmm....Are you going to stick all the ingridients in a food processor? If so, then I'd just throw them in there whole with everything else.
If not maybe you could chop the peppers with something like this.
http://www.target.com/KitchenAid-Food-Chopper-White/dp/B000IWV2X4/sr=1-1/qid=1260815714/ref=sr_1_1/189-1253587-8880049?ie=UTF8&search-alias=tgt-index&frombrowse=0&index=target&rh=k%3Achopper&page=1
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LOL! i learned that the hard way, too. chopped up some jalapenos, went to take my contacts out later that evening and AAAAGGGGHHHH!!! now, i either make dh do it or wear gloves. no way i'll make that mistake again!
smart move. i was going to say, you might just be out of luck. i am super sensitive to jalapenos (maybe even allergic?). when i was in high school i was a server at a mexican restaurant and on a slow day they asked me to chop jalapenos. i wore TWO pairs of gloves, and my hands started burning. they didn't believe me (the two pairs of gloves went up to my elbows), but then my hands turned bright red. i guess that crazy jalapeno juice somehow soaked through two layers of plastic?? i soaked them in cold water and then flour, but man, that was unbelievably painful. haven't touched fresh jalapenos since. two thumbs up for any device that will chop them for you!
You're gonna love my nuts!
I'm sorry, I couldn't help it.
Could it be that you were allergic to the gloves (possibly latex)?
All I think when I see that guy's picture on the box is "meth head."
nope, never happened any other time i wore them (before or since). maybe the gloves combined with the jalapenos? dunno...