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Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

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2018, 127 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540401 I made this back then! It’s what taught me to use gloves with chili. The capsaicin managed to permeate my skin, and for around 3 days my hands would start burning if they only got slightly warm. I had to sleep with my hands slightly raised, so they wouldn’t touch either the mattress or the covers (or my own skin). Nowadays, I always have nitrile gloves…

I feel dumb, I just now rubbed my eye after eating hot sauce. Senor Lechuga Hot Sauce .003 - very good but very hot and my eye is on fire. Avoid touching sensitive areas if you handle chili peppers or hot sauce, eyes, nose, groin...

Rubbing your eye after handling peppers is a definitely a problem - I’ve had that issue when peeling roasted green chile. Going to the bathroom can be risky, too. I had a vivid experience with that after chopping up a couple jalapeños at Taco Cabana one time…

Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

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Recipe not found Unfortunately, we can’t find the recipe you’re looking for. This may be because it has been taken down from the BBC Food website, which happens when our rights to publish a recipe expire. To find an alternative recipe from our collection you can search for the key ingredients in the search box or try one of the recommended recipes below. I know UK has stricter copyright regime, but seriously?

Maybe copilot just generated rather random BBC link. The recipe never existed on the first place.

Likely true, none of the other recipes on that site seem to have a number after the slug.

Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

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You will not be surprised to learn of the existence of org-chef, a package to help writing recipes in org-mode.

I've been using Emacs for over 20 years, and even I thought you were joking before I web-searched org-chef!

Oh ye of little faith!

Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

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I’ve got a private repo where I maintain all my recipes, and only invite close friends/family as contributors. It’s a great place to store recipes in general.

Is it at all feasible to export your repo to a cookbook? I've been looking for software that makes it easy to input individual recipes (locally is fine, on the web would be better) and export them for desktop publishing. It looks like git is perfect for the input part :)

They’re all stored in markdown, so you could probably write a Pandoc script quite easily to put them into a PDF.

Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

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2018, 127 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540401 I made this back then! It’s what taught me to use gloves with chili. The capsaicin managed to permeate my skin, and for around 3 days my hands would start burning if they only got slightly warm. I had to sleep with my hands slightly raised, so they wouldn’t touch either the mattress or the covers (or my own skin). Nowadays, I always have nitrile gloves…

I've also had a similar experience peeling and crushing a massive amount of garlic by hand with no gloves. Not as bas as with chilis, but still caught me by surprise.

Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

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Author of the open sauce here. Coolt to see this on HN for the second time(!) Still making fermented sauces and pickles. Set Moroccan Salted Lemons this week actually. Happy to answer any questions. :-)

I love this recipe, I'm so happy you made it available. I have made it multiple times. I might suggest you let potential chefs know of possible increased gastric activity with fermented foods, especially ones that like to give you painful reminders on the way out. But I'm sure as hell not submitting a pull request for that :)

Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

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I loved the issue about the "sauce code", and "compiling the sauce". There's so many puns here waiting to happen: - Finding 'bugs' in the 'sauce' - Continuous testing and integration - "Forking" ... what else? Contribute your puns below :p

If you're growing your own pepper you'll want to 'pull' them. 'Merge' the ingredients in a pot. And I guess, once fermented, the last stage is to 'solution-ise' it in a blender.

Don't forget the Brew and Bottle steps.

Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

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Is this kind of like sourdough? Since there's no starter culture, seems like it will ferment with whatever random yeast or bacteria happens to land in it while you're preparing it.

The salt and then the acid metabolites narrows the kinds of things which can grow considerably. Lacto-fermenting bacteria are everywhere

Re: Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

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Similar story with me. I was at my grandma's house for the holidays and wanted to can a bunch of jalapenos. I'd slice them in half, rub the seeds/guts out with my thumb then slice them into rings and throw them in a jar to boil. Did several pounds... Night came and I couldn't sleep my hands were burning so bad. Touching the sheets or anything would shoot pain. I went and dug through her medicine cabinet and found som…

I’ve had this from peeling roasted green chiles. My hands felt chill-hot and tingly for 2 days. It seems like abrasion cleans it off better than solvents or soap.

Try washing with milk if it ever happens again, should help.
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