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Stinging hands when washing yam why
The reason is: the mucus of yam contains plant alkali, saponin, contact with the skin will sting.

Solution:

1. If the hand is very itchy, you can wash your hand carefully, and then dip your hand in vinegar, after a while this after a while this itch will gradually disappear! (Reason: acid-base neutralization)

2. You can also roast on the fire, repeatedly turning the palm of the hand, so that the hand is heated. This will break down the saponin that has seeped into your hands.

3. Bring gloves

4. Prepare a pot of boiling water, wash the outer skin of the taro, remove the dirt impurities, then thrown directly into the boiling water to boil a little. Once it's up and running, just make a light cut with a kitchen knife from top to bottom to remove the outer skin effortlessly!

You can soak your hands in a small amount of vinegar in a sink for 5 minutes, then grill your hands over a fire to break down the saponin on the skin of the yam that causes itchy hands. Or cut the yam into sections, soaked in boiling water for 30 minutes after taking out, you can remove the mucus from the skin of the yam, and then peeled, both easy to peel and not easy to itchy hands

5. Feeling itchy, you can use water to rinse, and then wipe dry the water stains, apply a little bit of windex and wipe gently, itchy sense of removal.