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Fingers on fire!

I’m not the biggest pepper fan that I know. However, I like a little spice in my food and I can appreciate having to drink milk with a meal because it is so spicy. 

With this premise, you may understand why I felt that I should cut some Bahamian Goat peppers (correction: it was one goat pepper) and put them (it) in a tomato sauce for stew fish. I gleefully cut up the pepper, touching the seeds, not caring for my sensitive skin; and put it in the blender to create the tomato purée. 

When I smelt the completed purée, it made my eyes and nose water! Can you believe it? One goat pepper! I then proceeded to dilute the pepper because there was no way I could give that to my mother. 

A half hour later, I was still cooking, on to frying fish when I started to feel a little burning sensation in my fingers, right at the tips. I didn’t pay much attention to it and kept going about cooking. But as you will see, I should have started to worry at this point. 

The burning got so bad, it escalated to the point were I had to put my hands in icy water to achieve any slight comfort. One. Goat. Pepper. I quickly realised that the water that I so desperately threw my hands in was probably not the best method. 

This agony went on for hours, and because I am a Google dependent, I looked up  different methods that would help. The other methods I tried were:

Using milk (Didn’t work),

Washing hands with detergent (It was probably too late for this), and

Using Aloe Vera from the garden (really had my hopes high for this one but it was a no go).

At this point though, there was nothing I could do to deter the excruciating burn from traveling to the rest of my hands. The water had literally caused the oil from the pepper to spread to the rest of my hands. 

The miserable night was filled with either sleeping with my hands in icy water, or my boyfriend listening to me cry on the phone. 

So the moral of the story here is to use gloves when putting goat pepper people! Maybe then, you’ll be able to sleep peacefully through the night.