Soak the lotus seeds in alkaline water with a ratio of 1:10 for one hour. Knead the lotus seeds with your hands. After the skin falls off, soak them in hot water. The flesh of the lotus seeds will swell and become rotten after boiling. Wash the raw chestnuts and put them into a container, add a little salt, immerse them in boiling water, and cover the pot. After 5 minutes, take out the chestnuts and cut them open. The chestnut skin will fall off together with the chestnut shell. This method saves time and effort by removing the chestnut skin.

For "ripe chestnuts", you can also soak them slightly in boiling water to help peel them, but it may affect part of the sweetness; if you are afraid of wasting delicious food, then please "pee them slowly". Then boil the chestnuts you need first in boiling water until they are semi-ripe, then slowly peel them while they are still hot. You can easily peel off the skins. Remember not to let the water cool before peeling, otherwise the inner skin will stick to the chestnut meat. Boil raw chestnuts with skins in boiling water for 5 minutes. Take them out and immediately put them into water with ice cubes for 5 minutes. At this time, it will be easy to peel the chestnut skins.

Salt water boiling method. After washing the chestnuts, use a knife to cut a slit in the middle and put them in salt water. Then put them in a pot and cook them for 10 minutes. Peel them while they are still hot, so they are easier to peel. Because the chestnut skin is very hard, and there is a layer of mucous membrane stuck together inside, which is difficult to remove. But a little tip is that when chestnuts are heated, it is easier to peel them when they are very hot. So when I peel chestnuts, I usually boil a pot of water to heat them.

After cleaning the fresh chestnuts, make a cut on the chestnut, making sure it is above the chestnut, and then put it into the freshly boiled salted water and soak it for 5 minutes. While the chestnut is still fresh, Start peeling when it's hot, peel one piece in 5 seconds, it won't hurt your hands at all, and every piece will be intact. Hold the plastic bag with one hand and throw it against the table about 5 times. Don't pay too much attention or you may break the bag. If the force is too small, the chestnut skin will not break.

Wash the raw chestnuts and put them into a container, add a little salt, immerse them in boiling water, and cover the pot. After 5 minutes, take out the chestnuts and cut them open. The chestnut skin will fall off together with the chestnut shell. This method saves time and effort in removing chestnut skin.