This is something I learned the hard way several years ago. I've never heard of Fast Orange, but I just looked it up and it looks like something I should have anyway. Lots of pine sap where I'm living now. I remember the first time I got the chili burn really bad, I tried washing my hands in milk, salty water and Cointreau (because I didn't have any rubbing alcohol in the house) and nothing worked. It lasted for hours. The remedy my girlfriend at the time recommended was to rub my hands through my hair which seemed weird, but I've since read that hair is excellent for absorbing oils so I guess there's something to it. Still, it would have been difficult to run my lesser self through my own hair, had the burn spread. These days, I like to do my chilies with a very sharp pair of poultry shears if it's only one or two. It takes longer, but this way I don't have to risk the burn. I love pico de gallo but I need to pick up more tomatoes. I love me some beans, but a little textural variety as imparted by the pico de gallo is a great complement to beans. Thanks again for the recipes!WASH YOUR HANDS THOROUGHLY. Use soap. Then use Fast Orange. Then use soap again. Otherwise you'll rub your eyes an hour from now and be in goddamn agony. Even worse if you forget to wash your hands and go pee.
Nice. I wonder why that is? My aunt is on a big essential oils kick but she never mentioned that to me. Ah pine trees, the bane of my existence. If it's not sap that's getting me, it's the needles, falling branches or the pollen. There's still plenty of snow and it's pretty cold, but soon everything is going to look like this (image from The Boston Globe):
Grew up in Northern NM. I feel your pain. Used to be able to go to the pool during pollen season and run your finger along the edge to come up with pancake batter amounts of gloop that you could then throw at your friends. Ponderosa - the only wood in the world that, when burned in a campfire, makes your clothes smell like Bacos.