Capsicum (or green capsicum) is often used to add an extra element of crunch and spice to our cooking. Belonging to the bell pepper or sweet pepper family, this shiny and round ingredient has a slightly sweet but unique zing. According to the book ‘Healing Foods’ by DK Publishing House, capsicums are excellent for eyes, bones, skin and heart due to their vitamin C and antioxidant content. Due to its health benefits and crunchy taste, it is a great addition to our salads, stir fry and vegetable preparations. However, the process of removing its core can often be tedious. A cooking hack that recently surfaced on Reddit shows a really quick and easy trick to cut capsicum that will take your preparation time off. Wondering what this amazing hack is?
Take a look and see for yourself.
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The clip of the cooking hack was shared in the sub-reddit r/Oddly satisfying by user u/danruse, where it received 13.7k upvotes and hundreds of comments in a short amount of time. The simple yet effective trick for slicing capsicum or capsicum requires no additional equipment, and just a normal kitchen knife.
To hack capsicum, first you have to slice the vegetable from above so that the stem comes out. Make sure the entire top comes off and only the inner tube is left inside the vegetable. Repeat the same process for the bottom. The resulting cylindrical structure can be cut from either side to form an open roll, and the seeds of the bell pepper can only be removed by hand!
how easy and brilliant it is Cooking Hack Good? Reddit users gave their reactions to this hack to cut capsicum and capsicum. One user wrote, “He spent all his time talking about the top and the stem, but the real mind blowing magic was cutting/opening it.” “I’ve been doing this wrong for 20 years,” said another. Some Reddit users also said that they had always been using this trick, saying, “I’ve always cut my peppers like this and I don’t have food prep. company, I think we’re talented!”
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