Process chili peppers
Anyone who likes to eat hot, like me, knows the problem that arises when processing chili peppers: they are not only spicy in the food, they also burn in several places, if you touch them with your finger after processing - is especially popular the eye, which one touches carelessly and already in the movement asks what one has actually done.
at dried chili peppers you can make it very easy by wrapping the pods in a sheet of kitchen crepe and then just quasi "crushed" from the outside with your fingers. Then you have a wonderfully coarse chili powder, which you can simply from the kitchen crepe in the pan, the pot, on the plate, etc. can give.
Who else fresh chili peppers would like to use, with the kitchen crepe method absolutely no reasonable result. There is no way around the knife here. But then again, the aforementioned "careless finger" problem comes into play. Especially for (hobby) cooks, who are a little faster with the knife, a rubber glove is not a real alternative, it always throws somewhere wrinkles, the knife does not slip properly, it just feels alien to; and really nice thin cut chili rings you really do not get that way.
Nevertheless, one can safely use even the hottest chili peppers, without having to fear for his eyesight - all you have to do is wash your hands slightly differently than usual:
- After chili processing, add a small dab of edible oil to the chilli hands (20-cent-piece size)
This is rubbed well in your hands, as if you wanted to rub them with hand cream.
15 - 20 seconds are absolutely sufficient. It should by no means move in any way, since that would lead the exercise ad absurdum. - The oily hands are now easily washed with a small blob of rinse. Finished.
The mechanism of action is very simple: The capsaicin, which makes the chili peppers so wonderfully hot, does not dissolve in water at all - that's why it only makes it worse if you try to "extinguish" your "burning" mouth with water. In oil and fat, however, it feels good. It is just lipophilic and hydrophobic - so fat-loving and water-hating. The oil on the hands thus combines perfectly with the capsaicin and absorbs it from the skin surface. Therefore, you should not massage so long until the oil is drawn back, because then the capsaicin would be back on the skin. The capsaicin, which is now bound in the oil, is simply washed off with dishwashing liquid, which is known to be quite aggressive towards fats.
If you want to do something good for your skin afterwards, cream it in, or simply wash it again with a moisturizing soap, because you have just transported the natural fat film of the skin through the dishwashing liquid into nirvana.
Immediately afterwards you can easily wipe the eye, drive over the lips, or touch other sensitive areas without anything burning.
Fiery greetings from Berlin.
