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From: sci@ccnysci.UUCP (Chemistry 446)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: zapping pepper oil & MSG
Message-ID: <137@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 23:29:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: ccnysci.137
Posted: Wed Jun  5 23:29:50 1985
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References: <decwrl.2395>
Reply-To: sci@ccnysci.UUCP (Chemistry 446)
Organization: City College of New York
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Summary: Use baking soda

In article <decwrl.2395> kolling@decwrl.UUCP writes:
>
>The local newspaper's food section claims that if you get hot pepper oil
>on your hands, it can be neutralized with a weak solution of water and
>chlorine bleach, to avoid later zapping your eyes or contact lenses.

That sounds drastic. How about a solution of good old baking soda?

			PS:
	MSG may be a natural protein, but anything in excess is
 usually bad for you. How many mushrooms do you have to eat to
 equal the same amount of  MSG  in a typical meal from a rest.
 that uses  MSG in their cooking? (I also recall reading something
 about unbalanced proteins)