love jalopenas but hate the cutting the ends off,splitting them and scraping the seeds out.....I wear rubber gloves and try to do it under running water but still suffer coughing and eye-watering...
anybody got an easy way to do it?

I've always been told the rounder the end, the hotter the pepper.

I heard once that the heat of a particular jalepeno is directly proportionate to the outside temp when it was picked. Pick it on a cool rainy morning and it will be quite mild, but pick it on a scorching August afternoon and it will be a barn burner.

That's kind of the basic concept. It has to do with the stress of the plant. The more stress the plant is under the more capsaicin it will produce. But they won't be hotter from one day to the next day, it takes some time. If it was raining on August 14th and blazing hot on Aug 15th your peppers will be the same. You can give it lack of water until it starts to wilt pretty bad then water. That's probably the simplest way. But wait until your plant starts to produce pods then start stressing it out. I don't intentionally stress my peppers, the summer heat and lack of water naturally does it for me. My peppers I pick right now are much hotter than what I pick in the spring or that I will pick come fall.