@altamaha

The biggest problem I have with dicing them up is fighting the temptation to eat them by the slice while doing so.

I suspect I'll be fine.

@altamaha

Which, to be clear, I *do*. As in, I always put a few choice slices & some seeds aside to nosh on after dicing.

I just don't want to be unhygienic during food prep 😁

@netspionage as if any pathogen could survive in such an environment!

@XSGeek @altamaha

Because my views on hygiene were irreparably harmed (...?) based on labwork (pure cell culture experience, anyone? Anyone...?), where you follow strict guidelines regarding contamination.

Both an old textbook of mine as well as a sign posted in a lab said, in all-caps: YOU ARE ONE BIG WALKING CONTAMINANT (or roughly that; it's been a long time).

We carry germs in our mouths you do NOT want to contaminate food with which you are going to store away & eat later, for example.

@XSGeek @altamaha

I'm not a germaphobe or anything; I'm aware spores & various bacteria (pathogenic & non), viral particles, and even prions are quite literally omnipresent in all but the most tightly controlled environments (e.g., BSL-4 facilities) - and even then, if can't keep *everything* out, so the point is to minimize load.

Still don't want to introduce anything which can reproduce astonishingly fast into even refrigerated samples.

So...yeah, maybe I'm a wee tiny huge bit neurotic...

@XSGeek @altamaha

...though I would argue it's not a *pathological* neurosis, so I'm not super-inclined to treat it.

If I ever start going around wearing kleenex boxes on my feet or storing my urine in Mason jars sorted by date & hue, that'd be another thing entirely 🤣

@altamaha

So...there's just the smallest, nay, miniscule possibility I did *not* dice up _all_ of those delicious red peppers & kept a couple aside to just eat 😁

I will not be taking questions regarding this except to say THEY WERE AWESOME 🔥🔥🔥

#hotpeppers
#foodporn

@Tail

A person after my own heart, then 😊

If I could subsist entirely on garlic, onions, peppers (along with a host of spices), I probably would.

I also just ate an embarrassingly large quantity of roasted garlic the other day. Meant to put on food, but...wound up just shoveling it all into my own mouth like a veritable pig 🐖 😁

Just means I have to get more garlic now 🙄

@netspionage I've got a bad habit of eating a fair portion of what I make before it gets a chance to get cooked, and I love dicing onions and peppers, etc. The difference between freshly diced garlic and the jars of pre-minced garlic is incredibly pronounced.

Currently on the search for new hot sauces, but there's so many out there.