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Mark Anderson · 30-07-2006, 06:46 AM posted to rec.gardens

In article says...
From my experiences with Jalapeno, Habanero and Finger peppers
(Cayenne family), the only truly safe way to handle them is to use
those inexpensive, disposable gloves, discard the gloves when done
handling the peppers and still wash your hands very well.

I can handle jalapenos with my bare hands if I'm careful about washing
and not touching my eyes or anything. Last year I grew a red habenero
called "Chef Jeff's World's hottest pepper." I thought the name was a
nice gimmick and planted 3 plants. When I cut these peppers using my
bare hands the peppers burned through my skin and my entire hand felt
like it had been burned by a flame. I had to soak my hand in water for
about 4 hours before the burning became tolerable and they burned the
entire next day. After that I wore rubber gloves to handle habeneros.
I'm even afraid of the normal orange habeneros now.

Unfortunately I couldn't find Chef Jeff's red habenero peppers this year
and I failed to save any seeds from last year's crop. Those were the
best and hottest peppers I ever had. When I gave them away to people I
warned them to be very careful with them and never eat them raw. If
those peppers burned through my hands imagine what they would do to
someone's digestive system.

BTW: I'd appreciate if anyone could let me know where I can get seeds
for red habenero peppers for next year's garden.