The more frugal ways to peel water chestnuts: peeling directly, using a peeler, boiling and peeling, and peeling with a lye solution.

One, direct peeling

To peel water chestnuts, first do not break off the top of the buds, with the forefinger and thumb pinching the buds on one end and the bottom, with a knife like peeling apple skin peeled next to the circle of skin, and then buds and the bottom of the knife prying off, so that peeling is convenient and quick and does not hurt your hands.

Two, with the peeler

Water chestnuts in addition to manual peeling, there is also a fast way to peel water chestnuts is to use the water chestnut peeler peeling. After washing the water chestnuts, put them directly into the water chestnut peeler, and after turning on the machine, the peeled water chestnuts will come out from the other side.

Three, boiled to peel

Water chestnuts after cleaning, put in a pot, after the water boiled and then boiled for about 10 minutes, fish out of the cool water to cool can be quickly peeled; or boiled and then placed in salt water soak for a period of time, and then rinsed in cold water can be quicker peeling.

four, with alkali solution

preparation of 20% concentration of sodium hydroxide, heated to boiling after the water chestnuts will be poured into the 4-5 minutes after the fish out, and then rubbed in water, and then add a concentration of 2% of the hydrochloric acid neutralization and 6 minutes after the water washing, rubbing clean, can be relatively fast to remove the skin of water chestnuts.

What is water chestnut

Water chestnut is a plant of the genus Water chestnut in the family Salicaceae, stoloniferous rhizomes are long and thin, most of the culms, tufted, straight, elongated, terete, 40-100 centimeters high, 2-3 millimeters in diameter. Water chestnut is mostly planted in paddy fields, growing in wet soil, thin-skinned and juicy, very susceptible to water loss and shriveling and rotting and deterioration, mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan and other places with shallow water.

Water chestnut as one of China's characteristic vegetables, usually underground bulbs for food, can be raw, cooked or cooking, especially suitable for making canned food, called "water horseshoe", is one of the main ingredients of the restaurant; and can extract starch, and lotus root, diamond powder called starch three kui.