Methods to prevent hands from burning when cutting chili peppers:
1. 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 or vinegar, washing your hands with hot water is also good. Capsaicin will evaporate under high temperatures, although not as effective as alcohol and vinegar, it works better than cold water.
2. Lastly, here's a tip: when cutting chili peppers, use the pads of your fingers to hold the pepper instead of using your fingernails. This way, when handling takeout, your hands are less likely to get burned.
3. After wiping your hands with liquor, rinse them with clear water, and the burning sensation will immediately disappear.
4. Rubbing your hands with a little vinegar will stop the burning. The substance in chili peppers that causes the burning sensation is called capsaicin, and since vinegar is acidic, it can neutralize the discomfort caused by capsaicin.
5. Wear rubber gloves.
6. The substance in chili peppers that creates the spicy taste is a type of capsaicin. When cutting chili peppers, capsaicin sticks to the skin, causing microvascular dilation, leading to redness, heat, and accelerating local metabolism. It also stimulates pain nerves, which is why we usually feel a burning sensation on our hands. Generally, it is believed that this is due to capsaicin causing a chemical transformation in the nerve endings of the skin.
7. Capsaicin is soluble in ethanol and alkaline water solutions but not in cold water. In industry, edible alcohol is used as an extractant to extract capsaicin from chili peppers. Therefore, based on this principle, in daily life, you can use alcohol to dissolve capsaicin on your hands. After cutting chili peppers, you can wipe your hands in one direction with an alcohol swab, then wash your hands with clear water and dry them. Repeat three times until the symptoms are relieved.
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