How to get the smell of garlic off of your hands after cooking

The smell of garlic on your hands isn't so pleasant when you've been done with dinner for hours. Here's how to get rid of the lingering garlicky smell.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• lemon juice
• a silver spoon
• running water
• hand soap
• hand towel

1. Hold the lemon juice and spoon in your hands and slowly pour lemon juice onto the spoon as you rub your fingers against the spoon.

2. Rub thoroughly. The lemon juice adds acidity to the garlic on your hands and interacts with the spoon to remove this unwanted smell.

3. After having rubbed thoroughly, you can rub your fingers/hands with the spoon alone until the rest of the odor is gone.

4. Now, wash hands with hand soap and dry with a hand towel. The garlic is now an odor of the past!!!

Tips & Warnings

• If you have open wounds or cuts on your hands, the lemon juice may sting.

[Thims]

on 12/9/2008 This advice is quite sour! ;-) I'm at a lost as to the function of the spoon though? Really, should this surpise anyone? Great article.