Common methods for peeling fruits and vegetables

　　Skillfully Peeling Red Date Skin

　　Soak the dried dates in water for 3 hours, then put them in a pot and boil. After the dates are completely soaked and swollen, it is easy to pick them up and peel them.

　　How to Peel Potatoes

　　Potato skins are difficult to peel, but they have thin skins. You can rub them with a washing steel wool while running water under the faucet, and the potato skins can be quickly wiped off.

　　How to remove broad bean shells

　　Put the dried broad beans into a ceramic or enamel vessel, add an appropriate amount of alkali, pour boiling water and simmer for a quarter of an hour. After soaking until soft, it is easy to peel the beans. Rinse the beans with water after peeling them off.

　　Peel the grapefruit skillfully

　　Before peeling the grapefruit, knead it on the table. After kneading, cut the grapefruit in the middle. After the grapefruit is kneaded, the fiber connecting the flesh and peel is destroyed, so it only takes one cut out. If you only eat half and want to save the other half, just put the intact grapefruit peel you just peeled off on the remaining half of the grapefruit.

　　How to remove peach skin

　　Soak the peaches in boiling water for 1 minute, then immerse them in cold water. Remove and peel off the skin easily with your hands.

　　Peel chestnuts skillfully

　　At the center of the concave surface of the chestnut, pinch it horizontally with your thumb, and there will be a small opening. Use both hands to push up and down on both sides of the opening, and the shell will open a little. The shell is gone, now it’s time to remove the hard skin inside. Put the shelled chestnuts into this bowl, pour in boiling water and salt, cover and simmer for 5 minutes. After opening, the skins will be peeled off. The principle is that there are fibrous connections between the kernel and the peel of chestnuts, and the gap between them is very small. Only ionic substances can enter and separate them. There are very few ionic substances in clear water, and salt can be completely soluble in water. Its components, sodium ions and chloride ions, can enter between the kernel and the pulp to separate them.

　　Peeling walnuts skillfully

　　Treat the walnuts a little before cracking them. First put the walnuts into the steamer, turn on the heat, and steam for five minutes after the water boils. Then pour the steamed walnuts into a basin of cold water. This is called cooling the walnuts so that they won’t burn your hands when you peel them. Soak for a while and see the results. Still complete. It turns out that there are some gaps in the walnut shell. When steaming, water vapor enters the inside. When the kernel inside encounters water, the hardness decreases and the ductility increases. So when you knock it again, the soft kernels will not be brittle.

　　Peeling Mango Skillfully

　　After washing the mango, hold it with chopsticks and roast it on the gas stove for a while. It needs to be roasted evenly. It takes about 5 to 7 seconds. Take it off and cut it into four equal slits with a knife, and then peel the mango skin. Haha, the skin and flesh are completely separated. It is no longer difficult for the skin to come down with our beloved pulp, so everyone can eat the meat as cleanly as possible.

　　Peel oranges skillfully

　　You can put the orange on the table, press it with your palms and slowly rub it back and forth. As long as you rub it evenly for a while and then peel it, the orange will be as easy to peel as an orange, making it clean and convenient to eat.

　　Peel tomatoes skillfully

　　take one tomato , use a small spoon or the ridged end of chopsticks to scrape the tomato. After scraping the whole tomato, draw a cross on the top of the tomato and peel off the tomato skin with your hands.

　　clever peeling Grape Skin

　　Remove the grapes one by one, wash them in water, put them in a crisper box and freeze them in the refrigerator. After freezing, take it out and pour it into water to soak it slightly. At this time, just squeeze it gently with your hands and the skin of the grapes will be peeled off.

　　Peel garlic skillfully

　　Peeling garlic is a very laborious task, especially horse tooth garlic. If you break the garlic into pieces, soak it in warm water, take it out and let it dry for two or three minutes before peeling it off, you can peel it off with your hands, which is very convenient.

　　Peeling lotus seeds skillfully

　　Wash the lotus seeds, then put them into freshly boiled boiling water, add an appropriate amount of alkali, simmer for a while, pour out the lotus seeds, and rub them vigorously, the skin of the lotus seeds will fall off quickly.

　　Skillfully Peeling Taro Scalp

　　After the taro is steamed, take it out of the pot and let it cool; use a knife to cut off both ends of the taro until the inner flesh is slightly visible; then use a knife to cut the taro in half from the middle; then stick a toothpick between the taro scalp and the taro meat. You don't need to pierce it very deeply. Slowly Slowly draw a circle between the skin and the meat, as close to one side of the skin as possible. When the taro skin and meat are basically separated, gently squeeze it with both hands, and the complete half of the taro will be easily peeled off, and your hands will be clean, saving time and effort.

　　Skillfully Peeling Longan Bark

　　Because the longan skin is relatively dry, when peeling, some shredded skin often sticks to the longan meat and is difficult to pinch off. At this time, you can use half a basin of clean warm water that is not hot to touch, and soak the longan in the water for about two minutes. The skin of the longan will become soft when it is wet with water. This is the best time to peel the longan skin, and no more broken skin will stick to the longan meat.