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trev_teich

What is the best way to remove the sting before cooking?

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trev_teich

cool! What am I looking at here?

wanghailong_62240

trev_teich

Thank you, for about how long?

Chris_Young_80640

@Trevor — The sting of stinging nettle comes from hairs on the surface of the leave that have a brittle silicate tip (glass basically), but it's the cocktail of chemicals released by glands in these tips that causes the sting. The chemicals include histamines that trigger an inflammatory response in your skin. They're usually disarmed by blanching in lots of hot water. But it's not so much the hot water that disarms them as much as it is the water, which dilutes the irritating chemicals. So you can soak nettles in a large volume of cold water for a while to disarm their sting.

patrick_janoud_62181

well sometimes its enough to soak them in warm water for 10 min but to make sure

you wont end up with an itchy mouth you want to blanch them!thats the only way i know of getting rid of

the stings.