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smelly onion hands!

ET03
ET03 Posts: 264 Forumite
in Old style MoneySaving
no need to buy one of those expensive steel soaps
Simply rub your hands over any stainless steel utensils under running water. This works especially well for the odor of garlic, onions or fish.
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  • Queenie
    Queenie Posts: 8,793 Forumite
    another cure .... get hubby to do all the cooking and your hands won't contract cooking smells ever again :D

    You're a wealth of knowledge today ET03 - :T
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  • Curry_Queen
    Curry_Queen Posts: 5,589 Forumite
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    What about when you've been chopping chillies, does it work for that? ... and has anyone else inadvertantly rubbed their eyes afterwards, even several hours later! ... ouch!!! :eek:
    "An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"
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    It is that what you do, good or bad,
    will come back to you three times as strong!
  • Galtizz
    Galtizz Posts: 1,016 Forumite
    Slept with my hand in a bowl of water recently because I chopped loads of birds eye chillis (the hot ones) without putting gloves on, it burnt my finger tips just as though I'd lifted the grill pan out without oven gloves Ouch :eek: they hurt for 2 days and I struggled to hold the steering wheel of my car :o

    I will now always wear gloves so when I take them off my hands won't sting and I can't burn my eyes (haven't had chilli's for a while though)
    When life hands you a lemon, make sure you ask for tequilla and salt ;)
  • Queenie
    Queenie Posts: 8,793 Forumite
    Curry_Queen wrote:
    What about when you've been chopping chillies, does it work for that? ... and has anyone else inadvertantly rubbed their eyes afterwards, even several hours later! ... ouch!!! :eek:

    It *that* why you wear an eye patch? ;)

    I did something similar the first time I used a real chilli ..... sliced it in half lengthways ... saw all those iddy biddy seeds ....



    ... scooped them out using my thumbnail :A .....


    .. :eek: ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :eek:

    Never touched them again until I'd watched Ainsley use a teaspoon :doh:

    Me poor thumb was in agony, once it gets down your cuticles you know it.
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  • Caz2_2
    Caz2_2 Posts: 199 Forumite
    What about when you've been chopping chillies, does it work for that? ... and has anyone else inadvertantly rubbed their eyes afterwards, even several hours later! ... ouch!!!


    yep just now, i always forget that i have chopped chillis, just made 2 different types of curry in 2 slow cookers and eyes are driving me mad..........funny that i had just clicked on this because my hands stink of garlic
  • Curry_Queen
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    Apparently guys have an even worse time of it if they touch certain appendages when visiting the bathroom :rotfl:
    "An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"
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    It is that what you do, good or bad,
    will come back to you three times as strong!
  • Queenie
    Queenie Posts: 8,793 Forumite
    No wonder Ainsely used a spoon - wanna bet he learned the hard way? ;) :rotfl:
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  • MATH
    MATH Posts: 2,941 Forumite
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    Curry_Queen wrote:
    Apparently guys have an even worse time of it if they touch certain appendages when visiting the bathroom :rotfl:

    Havn't had this experience with chillis but after applying olbas oil to a snuffely little MATHLET's Chest. I danced a merry little jig and warbled a sweet little tune I can tell ya:rotfl:
    Life's a beach! Take your shoes off and feel the sand between your toes.
  • Ticklemouse
    Ticklemouse Posts: 5,030 Forumite
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    ROFPMSL @ MATH

    There goes tonight's cuppa - all over my monitor and down DS2's right ear.

    Note to self: Must keep vinegar in study.
  • maryb
    maryb Posts: 4,725 Forumite
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    ET03,
    i found that too.. If you have got a stainless steel sink just wipe down the draining board with your hands when you have finished washing up.
    But what about getting rid of garlic aroma when you've eaten too much?
    I made some garlic bread two days ago and used too much garlic and it's still saying 'remember me?'
    Fortunately for domestic harmony DH ate just as much as me
    It doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!
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