Pulled from the pages of the Caer Llewys Cookbook section on "Fire in Your Mouth: The Capsicum Pepper":
Always wash your hands after handling capsicum peppers; use detergent (better still, a non-toxic degreaser like Simple Green) because capsaicin is an oily alkaloid, and unless you particularly like running screaming for the shower, don't rub your eyes after handling capsicum peppers, especially any of the more potent varieties. (Be careful about handling other tender bits, too. You know what I mean.) Don't be ashamed to use latex or nitrile gloves.
This is great advice. I think anyone who's tried handling raw peppers has experienced this at least once -- like touching the stove -- and you learn to treat these things with respect. Using gloves is really good advice; people who handle these things all the time where much heavier rubber gloves than mentioned above. This is a time when you want to also be really careful about knife usage -- capsaicin in a cut also burns like hell and isn't readiliy washed out of a wound.
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