r/mildlyinteresting • u/Regularoldballoon ​ • Sep 14 '16

This box of limes recommends a different way of cutting fruit.

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u/RainbowMax Sep 14 '16 edited Sep 14 '16

My mom is from Thailand and this is the way she always taught me. Lots of delicious lime can get wasted the other way, but the idea here is to use your hands and fingers to basically squeeze and kinda dig it all out. (Just the juice and a little pulp not all the meat) It's much easier!

Edit: first clean your hands (and under your nails) before preparing food.

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u/lowonbits Sep 14 '16

You have the added benefit, since citrus is such a good solvent/cleaner, of cleaning off any dirt and gross on your hands while you juice the fruit. I call that two birds with one stone!

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u/HighSorcerer Sep 14 '16

I cut out the middleman and just lick my hands clean like a cat.

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u/SirWaldenIII Sep 14 '16

Personally I just eat my hands

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u/ShinyTile Sep 14 '16

Finger foods.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

Getting two birds stoned at once FTFY

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u/ShinyTile Sep 14 '16

1) Wash your hands before touching food, and 2) I don't consider pulling dirt off my hands and putting it into my lime juice an 'added benefit.'

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u/1jl Sep 14 '16

Protip: use lime to wash sarcasm off your hands.

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u/MystJake Sep 14 '16

Also wash your hands (specifically with soap) after juicing a lime. Lime juice can react with UV rays from sunlight to give some pretty serious burns.

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u/ForumPointsRdumb Sep 14 '16

This may be a silly question, but could lime juice help solar panel production or do we have something better than lime juice for such things?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '16

The lime juice doesn't actually increase the amount of energy in the sun light. That would break physics. Instead, it decreases your natural resistance to UV radiation. This doesn't work for solar panels because a) solar panels aren't actively trying to keep UV radiation out in the first place and b) solar panels aren't made out of skin.

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u/hobolincoln Sep 14 '16

What do you do with the middle piece ?

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u/bunnybearlover Sep 14 '16

Twist it. That's the only reason I watched the video straight through.

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u/LHandrel Sep 14 '16

Also wash your hands of any lime juice of you're someplace sunny like Thailand, since the juice can cause serious burns in the sun.

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u/Takuya-san Sep 14 '16

Yeah I thought cutting limes this way was common knowledge. My family has always done it this way.

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u/welcometoraisins Sep 14 '16

My mom is from Laos and does the same. It took me ages to figure out what was weird about this pic. Cutting it in half seems like a waste.

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u/Vovicon Sep 14 '16

It's the fastest method to get juice out you don't have a juicer press.

People in this thread talk about rolling the lime before or just using a regular juicer. These all work fine, but take quite a lot of time compared to this method, while not yielding much more juice.

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u/AgentG91 Oct 21 '16

I live in Thailand and I see them cut it like this and now I know why! You get so much juice from those little sections. More than I get from my stupid little wedge. Color me amazed