Spicy peppers helped one of this year's Nobel Prize winners learn about the science of touch

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Use gloves kids, take it from ole Papasan, use gloves when handling spicy peppers.

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When cooking with I assume, just touching a whole one shouldn’t make you a danger to bare skin.

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You like to live on the edge, I like that.

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Oh you know me

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It’s the white stuff on the inside you need to watch out for, unless you have an ultra hot one and it has visible capsaicin as what looks like an oil

It’s best to play it safe and just wear gloves.

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And for the love of Dog, whatever you do, don’t clean the surface you used to cut hot peppers on with a high powered stream of water. The results are… unpleasant.

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That’s a one spicy meat’a’ball

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