{"id":16382,"date":"2012-04-17T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T09:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=16382"},"modified":"2017-02-25T19:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:39:59","slug":"useful-tips-for-kitchen-such-cutting-chillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/04\/17\/useful-tips-for-kitchen-such-cutting-chillies\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Tips for Kitchen &#038; Such &#8211; Cutting Chillies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a novice at cooking and baking, I&#8217;m constantly learning how to be efficient, effective and smart in the kitchen. Yang would tell you that I have a long way to go &#8211; and it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to cutting chillies, do you use a knife or a pair of scissors? I used to chop chillies on a chopping board. What I greatly disliked was the spiciness left on my fingers and the chopping board. It was hard to remove by washing and I often rub my eyes with my fingers after that! Yeah, silly me and imagine the burning sensation my poor eyes were suffering from. And if I cut fruits on the same chopping board within a short period of time, I get fruits laced with chilli flavour. :(<\/p>\n<p>I have since learnt to cut chillies with a pair of scissors instead. Just hold the green stalks while cutting the chillies and none of my fingers will come into contact with the spicy chemicals (i.e. capsaicin) of the cut chillies.<\/p>\n<p>A simple and neat solution! :)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16394\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16394 \" title=\"chillies and scissors blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/chillies-and-scissors-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/chillies-and-scissors-blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/chillies-and-scissors-blog-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chilli padi &#8230;. ssssSSSS&#8230;..AAHHHHHH!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a novice at cooking and baking, I&#8217;m constantly learning how to be efficient, effective and smart in the kitchen. Yang would tell you that I have a long way to go &#8211; and it&#8217;s true. When it comes to<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/04\/17\/useful-tips-for-kitchen-such-cutting-chillies\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Useful Tips for Kitchen &#038; Such &#8211; Cutting Chillies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home","wpcat-6-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/chillies-and-scissors-blog.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}