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Brace yourself for the most amazing kitchen hack you’ll ever read between now and precisely three to five minutes from now. When you next see your friends, or you strike up a conversation with the fella bagging your groceries – you’ll be sure to tell them about this, won’t you? I mean, everyone needs to know that the squeezing of limes and lemons has been done wrong for years but you now know the correct way to do it – so you shall therefore enlighten the world on the correct squeezage procedure of limes and lemons.

The Right Way to Squeeze a Lime (or a lemon)

I recently learned this trick, and it’s a good thing. I think I was well on my way to being diagnosed with lime-squeezing-induced carpal tunnel in my right hand. This hack has saved me, no doubt. It’s here to save you too.

All nonsense aside (and by nonsense, I mean completely necessary life-changing information) – this tip is really cool. You’ll need a lime or a lemon (was that not obvious?) and you’ll need a strong pair of tongs.

First things first: Roll the unsliced lime or lemon along the counter-top, pressing it down as you roll. This will soften the fruit and make it easier to juice.

Next, cut your lime or lemon in half. Grab one half with your tongs, like so:

squeezing lime 1

Now (aiming downward, for the love) squeeze that lime or lemon with all your might (I use two hands because I’m a weakling like that). Continue the rolling, the slicing, and the squeezing until you have all the juice you need.

squeezing lime 2

The tong trick helps prevent juice from getting all over your hand and running down your arm and up your sleeve. Not that this would actually happen, but now it most definitely won’t. Plus you won’t get lime-squeezing-induced carpal tunnel, so I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief there.

I first tried this trick while making BLT Chopped Salad, and I’m pretty sure I’ve made it clear that I have been eating that salad three meals a day for the past eleventy days or so because I love it so much. I’ve learned to just squeeze the lime directly onto the salad because life’s too short to squeeze it into a jar for the purpose of making a dressing. Just squeeze it directly, then pour in the oil, and sprinkle with salt.

Then, because you are amazingly efficient, you can use your lime squeezing tongs to toss the salad altogether (thus mixing the lime juice, olive oil, and salt along with all the other ingredients) and then to serve the salad with those very tongs. If by now tongs are not your favorite kitchen gadget, I believe you need to go back and read this post more thoroughly. Or maybe you just haven’t made this salad yet, for reasons I will never understand.

Grab you some limes (or lemons) and grab you some tongs and commence the squeezing.

Now you tell me. Is that not the most amazing kitchen hack you’ve read in the last three to five minutes? And have you made this salad yet? Do it already.

It’s all about lemon juice.

Hey, I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. I simply learned this trick accidentally, so I decided to tell you to do it on purpose. After all, you might be like me and have water spots on your glasses and toxins in your liver. Not to worry – there’s a lemon for that.

Not sure if you have toxins in your liver? (And everybody looked down as if to examine their liver and check for toxins.) I can just about guarantee we can all use a good liver cleanse. We all breathe in toxins when we’re outside or when we’re around chemicals of any kind, and surely we’re ingesting them – even if we are very careful about what we eat.

Oh no!! Our livers are toxic! Relax. Our livers are made to process out toxins. Our world simply gives them a little more than they can handle sometimes. A lemon-liver boost is just what the doctor ordered.

Lemon Water Detox - Simple!

For me, this happened literally. One of my natural doctors suggested that my liver and immune system would benefit from drinking lemon juice in a glass of water each day. It sounded easy enough – plus, I love that this is such a super inexpensive de-tox option. So I started adding lemon juice to a glass of water once or twice each day.

How’s the taste? Well, pucker up. I don’t add sugar (because wouldn’t that just defeat the purpose?) so my lemon juice water is quite tart. Now that I’m used to the taste though, I find it to be rather refreshing and I’ve started to crave it each day.

And then. Then!!!!!! I noticed that when I rinse my glass afterward, all the spots that had been hanging out were wiped away. Just like that. So it would appear that lemon juice cleanses my liver and my drinking glasses at the same time because it’s just so efficient and awesome like that.

Here. I took a picture of two drinking glasses to show you the difference. I considered also putting two livers side by side so we could all see the effectiveness of drinking lemon water but wouldn’t you know it. My camera battery died. Seriously. That’s the only reason I didn’t stage that picture. The only reason.

spots on glass

What have we learned here today?

Laura has hard water.
Our livers love lemons.
Lemon juice beats hard water stains.

So here is my advice to you today (and tomorrow): Add about 2 Tablespoons of lemon juice to a 12 ounce glass of water. Drink it down. Do this once or twice or three times each day. Feel confident about this lovely boost you are giving your liver – helping it to do its job for you more effectively. And then watch as your drinking glasses become more sparkly each time you drink your lemon water.

After all, as they always say, if life gives you lemons – go cleanse your liver. Or your drinking glasses. Or both. At the same time. Rock on.

Ever tried drinking straight lemon water? How do you like it?!

The Right Way to Squeeze a Lime or Lemon (How cool is this?!)

How To Clean Your Liver and Your Drinking Glasses At the Same Time