Burning sensation of chili pepper fingers

Chili is an indispensable condiment in daily life, so when cooking, we will add a little chili. If you want to eat chili peppers, you have to cut them. After cutting the peppers, most people's fingers will feel burning, and in severe cases, there may be a little stinging pain. Of course, not all peppers will give people a burning sensation. After all, peppers are also classified into categories. So what should you do if your fingers feel burning after cutting peppers?

1. After cutting the peppers with your hands, rinse your fingers with plenty of cold water immediately to remove some of the heat and residual pepper liquid. Next, you can wash your fingers with soap or dishwashing liquid, which can also relieve the burning sensation. Then apply vinegar on it. Don't wash it off first. Wash it after a while, and then apply it again. The chili liquid will be washed off a little bit.

2. You can also use the cooking oil you have at home, such as peanut oil, sunflower oil, etc., because the chili liquid is fat-soluble, adding some cooking oil can neutralize part of it. After that, you can use 75% alcohol to apply it on your hands and evenly spread it. Congratulations, the burning sensation will disappear soon.

3. It is recommended to wear disposable gloves when cutting peppers to avoid the pain of burning.

4. When your hands are burned when cutting chili peppers, apply some vinegar. The substance that produces the spicy taste in chili peppers is a type of capsaicin, which is collectively known as capsaicin. When cutting peppers, capsaicin sticks to the skin, causing the capillaries to dilate, resulting in redness and heat of the skin, and accelerating the local metabolic rate. At the same time, it will stimulate the pain nerves, which is why we usually feel burning hands. It is generally believed that this is caused by capsaicin causing chemical changes in the nerve endings of the skin.

Capsaicin is soluble in ethanol and alkaline aqueous solutions, but insoluble in cold water. In industry, capsaicin is extracted from chili peppers using edible alcohol as an extractant. Therefore, based on this principle, in life, you can apply 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.

In addition, you can also wash your hands with a small amount of vinegar. This is because vinegar is acidic and can neutralize capsaicin. If you don't have medical alcohol,