Lemons I buy often - we are at home constantly drink tea with them, use the juice and zest for cooking various dishes. But before you use a lemon, I would always mine. Now I tell, what for and why. Everyone should know!
Simply wash the lemons with water from the tap is not enough. Because lemons are covered with a thin layer of paraffin or wax, or something else is clearly not edible and not beneficial.
Lemons film coated with this paraffin that they do not spoil - manner corked "pores" lemon that it has not oxygen.
This film is necessary to wash off. Here there are different ways, someone washes with soap and hot water, someone just scalded with boiling water, some third-party lemons stiff sponge for washing dishes, but that's not enough. Soap cleans bad lemons on wax, so there need other means.
The best thing with this film (in my opinion) handles most ordinary soda or mustard powder. We need to take a little baking soda or powder, rub lemon, rinse with hot water, then repeat. soda or powder particles act on a lemon as a scrub that simply tears off the film.
Lemons then seemed to "come to life", the aroma from them becomes more intense, because the pores are open, and there, as you know, just, and contains essential oils that give the smell.
In general, without a thorough wash lemons can not be used. By the way, one of my friends do not bother and just cuts off the rind. Alternatively, of course, is not bad, but the rind from the lemon is the most valuable, I'm not ready to cut it, I'll be better to wash :))
Write in the comments how you wash before use lemons? Maybe there is still some more effective ways?
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