Brilio.net - Lime is one of the fruits that is often used as a cooking ingredient. Generally, lime juice is used as a food flavoring. Especially foods with soup such as soto, meatballs, rawon, noodles, and others.
Lime juice can add a sour and fresh taste to food. Apart from adding a delicious taste to food, lime is also commonly used to remove fishy odors and remove oily stains on cooking utensils.
Small pieces of cayenne pepper, lime juice have many health benefits too, you know. Reporting from kemenkes.go.id, lime has benefits for increasing immunity, improving digestion, treating respiratory tract disorders, reducing weight, and others.
So, to take advantage of these many benefits, you need to take the juice or water from lime. However, because it is small and hard, lime juice tends to be difficult to squeeze. Even if it is possible, usually only a little water is produced because it is not completely squeezed out.
Many people end up buying an orange squeezer so that the resulting water can come out optimally. There are others who heat limes in the microwave for a while, so that the juice is easy to squeeze.
But who would have thought, you could also squeeze lime juice optimally without using this equipment, you know. The owner of the account @cozieadjah17 on TikTok shares a trick so that a lot of lime juice comes out.
" Tips for squeezing limes to get lots of juice without any hassle, " he wrote.
How to squeeze limes so that the juice is abundant and fresh.
Before squeezing the juice, don't cut the lime straight away. Try rolling the lime on a flat place first, such as on a table or cutting board. This technique is done so that the lime juice is squeezed from the inside, so it will be easier to squeeze when it is cut.
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After rolling it for a while, prepare the knife and cutting board you have at home. Make sure the cutting board and knife are clean or do not have any remaining ingredients. So, you can't cut it carelessly either. Most people usually cut lime into two parts. This will actually make the resulting lime juice less than optimal.
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To cut it, hold the lime with the stem end facing up. Then, start cutting the lime at the end in a standing position. Then, cut the lime again on one side, leaving a middle section.
After the lime is split into three, remove the lime seeds using the tip of a knife. After the seeds come out, the lime is now ready to be squeezed. Then, prepare a container such as a glass to hold the lime juice.
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Squeeze the lime pieces one by one using your hands. Continue squeezing the other lime pieces evenly so that all the juice comes out. With this trick, more lime juice will come out, you know. Your fingers also don't need to squeeze as hard as they can. Now, the lime juice is ready for you to use as needed. Very easy, right?