How to cut peppers without burning your hands

When cooking, everyone will have a feeling that their hands will feel hot after cutting peppers. Today I will tell you how to cut peppers without getting hot on your hands. Please keep it in your collection. It is definitely very useful in life.

How to cut peppers without burning your hands

1. The substance that produces the spicy taste in peppers is a spicy substance called capsaicin.

Capsaicin. When you cut peppers, capsaicin gets on your skin, causing capsaicin to dilate capillaries, causing the skin to become red and hot, and accelerating the local metabolic rate. At the same time, it also stimulates the pain nerves, which is why we usually feel burning hands. It is generally believed that this is caused by capsaicin causing chemical conversion of the nerve endings in the skin.

2. Capsaicin is soluble in ethanol and alkaline aqueous solutions, but not in cold water. In industry, edible alcohol is used as an extractant to extract capsaicin from peppers. Therefore, based on this principle, in life, you can use alcohol to dissolve the capsaicin on your hands. After cutting peppers, you can wipe your hands in one direction with an alcohol cotton ball, then wash your hands with clean water, and then dry them. Do this three times until the symptoms are relieved.

3. In addition, you can also wash your hands with a small amount of vinegar, because vinegar is acidic and can neutralize capsaicin. If you don't have medical alcohol or vinegar, washing your hands with hot water is also a good idea, because capsaicin will produce irritating evaporation at high temperatures, although not as good as alcohol and vinegar, but the effect is worse than cold water.

4. Finally, let me tell you a method. When cutting peppers, you can press the peppers with the tips of your fingers instead of pinching them with your fingernails. This way, your hands will not be easily burned.

5. After scrubbing with white wine, rinse with clean water, and the stinging and painful hands will immediately stop.

6. Rub your hands with a little vinegar to stop the spiciness. The substance in chili peppers that produces spiciness is called capsaicin, and vinegar is acidic, which can neutralize the discomfort caused by capsaicin.

7. Wear rubber gloves.

8. You can rub your hands with a little salt before cutting peppers. There is no scientific explanation, but I often do this.