Re: [CH] dehydrator-ing peppers Question
OverFedLongHairedLeapingGnome (raelsixfour@cableone.net)
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:13:06 -0600
> > if all that capsicum leaks through, why
>> as a nurse am I bothering to wear gloves around my clients???
>
>I bet those latex gloves work fine in a medical situation because probably
>all biological organisms are larger than the pore sizes of the gloves. And
>probably the reason so much capsaicin always leaks through those flimsy
>little gloves is that molecules of all the forms of capsaicin are _much_
>smaller than any biological organism, and apparently small enough to easily
>diffuse through latex gloves.
>
>I've given up on those latex gloves. Within an hour or maybe even half an
>hour of working with sufficiently pungent chiles you feel you've just
>wasted your money on gloves. The big thick sturdy neoprene gloves seem to
>work ok, but maybe because I've only used them for brief periods in
>relatively low-concentration situations, like maybe an hour or two peeling
>hot (for poblanos) poblanos. The worst glove saturating situation I've
>done was de-seeding dried tobasco chiles -- within 30 minutes or so those
>little latex glove fingertips are bright red inside and out and apparently
>transmitting capsaicin to fingers unimpeded.
>
> --- Brent
Learn to luv the burn...that's all the Wizdom Monk Rael can impart
upon youse guyz...
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