How to cut peppers without burning your hands? Life tips to help you solve the problem

Chili peppers are an ingredient that we often eat in daily life. Although they are spicy and go well with rice, the cooking process is very difficult for chefs because they are not only irritating to the eyes but also to the hands, and no matter how you wash them, it doesn't help. In fact, there are some tips for cutting peppers without getting your hands burned. As long as you master the following tips, chefs will no longer be afraid of cutting peppers.

The substance that produces the spicy taste in chili peppers is a type of capsaicin, which is collectively called 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 there is no medical alcohol or vinegar, washing your hands with hot water is also a good idea, because capsaicin will produce irritating evaporation under high temperature. Although it is not as effective as alcohol and vinegar, it is worse than cold water.

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.

After scrubbing with white wine and then rinsing with clean water, the stinging and painful feeling in your hands will immediately disappear.

Rub your hands with a little vinegar and they won’t feel spicy. The substance that produces the spicy taste in chili peppers is called capsaicin, and vinegar is acidic, which can neutralize the uncomfortable feeling caused by capsaicin. You can also wear rubber gloves.

My tip: Whether you use alcohol or vinegar to treat capsaicin, it is only limited to preventing capsaicin from entering our body, so these two methods can only deal with the capsaicin that is on the surface. I hereby suggest that when you cut a large amount of peppers, it is best to wear gloves, so as to ensure that capsaicin will not enter our hand skin at all.