Tips for peeling chestnuts, tips for peeling chestnuts

The chestnut shelling method is as follows:

Hot water soaking method: Wash the raw chestnuts and put them in a utensil, add a little refined salt, soak them in boiling water, and cover the pot. After 5 minutes, take out the chestnuts and cut them, and the chestnut skin will fall off together with the chestnut shell, which saves time and effort to remove the chestnut skin.

Chopsticks stirring method: put all two cloves of chestnuts, put them in a basin after shelling, add boiling water to soak for a while, stir with chopsticks, and the skin of the chestnuts will be separated from the chestnut meat. The soaking time should not be too long, otherwise it will affect the nutritional content of chestnuts.

Refrigerator freezing method: After the chestnuts are cooked, they are cooled and placed in the refrigerator for two hours to separate the shell meat. In this way, the chestnut coat is peeled quickly, and the chestnut flesh is complete.

Microwave heating method: cut the shell of the raw chestnuts you bought with scissors, and heat them in the microwave for 30 seconds at high temperature, and the inner layer of clothing and meat will automatically detach. Before using this method to remove chestnuts, be sure to cut the shell, otherwise it may cause microwave failure.

Thermal expansion and cold contraction method: peel off the shell of the chestnuts with a knife, boil them in boiling water for 3-5 minutes, and soak them in cold water for 3-5 minutes immediately after taking them out, it is easy to peel off the chestnuts, and the taste remains the same.

Sun exposure method: Put the raw chestnuts to be eaten in the sun for a day, and the chestnut shells will crack.

Three ways to peel chestnuts].

Chestnuts are also my favorite, and I always have the impression in my heart that chestnuts are so difficult to peel, probably because I didn't know how to peel them when I was a child.

One day, I searched the Internet and looked at several methods, and I was curious, do so many methods really work? Can it really be that easy to peel? Which method is more practical and convenient?

So I chose three methods to experiment, and the results turned out to be really practical, at least all three of them I used were pretty good. The fastest and most time-saving is the microwave method.

Ingredient breakdown. Chestnuts, boiling water, pots, scissors, microwave.

1. The first method: boiling water blisters to peel off the chestnuts.

2. Wash the chestnuts. Bring water to a boil in a pot, turn off the heat and add the chestnuts.

3. Cover the pot and soak for 5 minutes.

4. Take out the chestnut and cut a hole with scissors.

5. The appearance of peeling off is very complete.

6. A very beautiful chestnut is peeled out.

7. The second method: chestnuts peeled by microwave method.

8. The surface of the boiling blister on the left > the microwave method on the right, the surface of the boiling blister is moister and darker, and the surface of the microwave is drier and lighter in color, and the feel will be harder.

9. Wash the chestnuts and cut a hole on the surface with scissors, both left and right, and connect them into a symmetrical mouth, so that it will crack accurately.

10. Put it in the microwave oven and simmer on high heat for one minute, then you can take it out.

11. Wrap the microwave tray in a cloth and let the chestnuts cool slightly. With a light break of the hand, the chestnut is peeled out, very quickly.

12. The third method: chestnuts peeled by shelling and soaking in water.

13. First cut the outer shell of the chestnut with scissors and peel it off.

14. Boil water in a pot or the water temperature of seventy or eighty degrees is enough, and put in the chestnuts with peeled shells.

15. Soak for five minutes, remove and drain the water, and you can easily peel off the coat at this time.

Recently, it is the season of fresh chestnuts on the market, and I often see the chestnuts piled up into a hill in the vegetable market, which looks gratifying. Chestnuts belong to the nut category, but they are the most common, and they are also very affordable, and the general public can afford them.

Chestnut has a high nutritional value, rich in fructose, starch, protein, crude fiber, various vitamins and minerals, which is really good for human health.

There are many ways to eat chestnuts, such as fried chestnuts with sugar, which is also a common street food. Chestnuts can also be stewed and stewed, such as chestnut stewed chicken, chestnut stew, chestnut porridge, etc., and can also be ground into powder to make a variety of snacks.

Friends who like to eat chestnuts will find such a problem, the chestnut shell is not easy to peel, there is a layer of fluff in the middle, which adheres to the pulp, it is difficult to get it down, scraping, rubbing, rubbing, etc. with a knife will hurt the pulp, affecting the appearance and even the taste. So what is a good way to quickly peel chestnuts without hurting the pulp, here are a few small methods to ensure that the chestnuts peeled out are smooth and complete.

Method 1: Boil the blister.

1. Put some water in the pot, bring to a boil, and you can put some salt.

2. Make a cut in the chestnut with a knife.

3. Soak the chestnuts in boiling water for 5 minutes, peel off the shell and skin of the chestnuts while they are hot, and you will find that the chestnut shells are really easy to peel.

Method 2: Microwave oven ding.

1. Make a cut on the top of the chestnut shell with a knife.

2. Put the chestnuts in the microwave on high heat for one minute.

3. Take it out, you can easily peel off the shell of the chestnut.

Method 3: Sun exposure.

1. Fresh chestnuts are not easy to peel, so they can be exposed to the sun for a day.

2. The next day, when peeling chestnuts, you will find that the chestnut shells become very easy to peel.

These are the methods I have tried to peel chestnuts, and I will share them with you, the methods are simple and anyone can learn. Friends who like to eat chestnuts should remember to collect them, and you can easily peel chestnuts next time.

1. Dry chestnuts in the sun.

Put the chestnuts that you want to eat in the sun for a period of time, the shell of the chestnuts will crack, and you can gently peel it off with your hands.

2. Stir with chopsticks.

Cut the chestnuts, remove the shells and put them in a basin, soak them in water for a period of time, not too long, stir them with chopsticks for a while, and the skin of the chestnuts will be detached from the chestnut flesh.

3. Heat in the microwave.

Cut the outer shell of the raw chestnuts with scissors and heat them in the microwave for one minute to cause the chestnut skin and chestnuts to detach automatically.

4. Soak in boiling water.

Wash the chestnuts and put them in a container, put a little salt, soak them in boiling water, cover them with a lid, and after a few minutes, take them out and cut them to let the chestnut shells fall off together.

The above is to introduce you to the tips of peeling chestnuts, I hope it can help you.

Here's how to quickly peel chestnuts:

Tools Ingredients: scissors, cutting boards, kitchen knives, basins, boiling water, bottle caps.

1. After the chestnut is bought, put it on the balcony to dry for 2-3 days, so that part of the moisture in the pulp can evaporate, so that the pulp and the peel can be ground to produce a certain gap. Numbers.

2. After drying, each chestnut is cut with scissors.

3. You can also cut directly with a kitchen knife without scissors, and when chopping, we put a plastic bottle cap under the chestnut, so that the chestnut will not run around, and you don't have to worry about chopping it.

4. After cutting the opening, put it in the basin, add boiling water, pay attention here, be sure to boil boiling water, so that the temperature is the highest, the boiling water can be added more, not more than 5 cm of chestnuts, and then let the chestnuts soak in it.

5. When the boiling water is not hot, you can start peeling the chestnuts.

6. After soaking, the chestnut with the belt shell can be peeled off very easily. Soaking in boiling water can make the chestnut shell soft, so it will not be difficult to peel it off, and the skin inside will swell and become easy to fall off after being soaked in boiling water, so you can peel it off very easily.

7. After the chestnut is peeled out, it will be soaked in water, and it will oxidize in contact with the air for a long time, which will cause the chestnut to turn black, but the chestnut that has turned black due to oxidation can be eaten with potatoes, but the appearance is a little ugly.

I don't know how you eat it, but if it's cooked, before you cook it, use a small fruit knife to cut the chestnuts, and when they're cooked, the chestnuts are easy to peel.

How to peel chestnuts

Step 1: We must first make an opening for the chestnut, so that when it will be cooked, the water can enter, the heat expansion and cold contraction will separate the flesh and peel, and use scissors to cut a long hole in one of the chestnuts, and the shell should be completely cut open, and the mouth should be longer.

Step 2: Put water in the pot to submerge the chestnuts and add about 2 tablespoons of salt, which can soften the peel and vegetables (dehydrated) and make it easier to operate.

Step 3: **Cook for 5 minutes, and you don't need to be fully cooked, because some chestnuts also need to be reprocessed and heated, if you eat them directly, of course, you can cook them for a while, and they can be fully cooked in about 10 minutes.

Step 4: Boiled chestnuts are fished out, don't overuse cold water, otherwise the shell will be retracted immediately and the previous efforts will be abandoned, keep the chestnuts a certain heat, I use the Zhenmi lifting electric hot pot, when the key rises, the hot water below can continue to keep the slag macro temperature for the chestnuts, peeling chestnuts is more suitable, you can peel it when it is not hot. Such as a wide book.

Step 5: At this time, the husk is already very soft, easily tear the husk along the opening, squeeze it hard or completely tear it out, and a complete yellow-orange-orange flesh will be peeled out.

Peeling chestnuts is actually like those raw chestnuts are not easy to open, you directly boil water in the pot, and then wash the chestnuts and put them in the pot to boil with boiling water, and then the chestnuts can be peeled is very simple, directly with your hands to make it will be known to open, you can try it, this method is very simple, and it is easy to peel.