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I can only think of one thing that I avoid doing.

Breaking down a chicken? No problem. Boning a duck? Great fun. Filetting a fish? Ditto. Chopping onions? A breeze. Prepping squid? My favourite kitchen job!

But one of my favourite dishes is 辣子鸡 (là zi jī ) or chicken in chillies. This Sichuan dish requires that 50 grams of dried chillies be snipped in half and then as many of the seeds as possible removed. I'm not squeamish about it or worried about the heat or anything similar. It's just plain boring and always takes longer than you can imagine. 50 g of dried chillies is more than you might think.

So I have to work myself up to it. This means I don't eat it as often as I would like. I need to find a volunteer chilli snipper.

I can only think of one thing that I avoid doing.

Breaking down a chicken? No problem. Boning a duck? Great fun. Filetting a fish? Ditto. Chopping onions? A breeze. Prepping squid? My favourite kitchen job!

But one of my favourite dishes is 辣子鸡 (là zi jī ) or chicken in chillies. This Sichuan dish requires that 50 grams of dried chillies be snipped in half and then as many of the seeds as possible remove. I'm not squeamish about it or worried about the heat of anything similar. It's just plain boring and always takes longer than you can imagine.

So I have to work myself up to it. This means I don't eat it as often as I would like. I need to find a volunteer chilli snipper.

I can only think of one thing that I avoid doing.

Breaking down a chicken? No problem. Boning a duck? Great fun. Filetting a fish? Ditto. Chopping onions? A breeze. Prepping squid? My favourite kitchen job!

But one of my favourite dishes is 辣子鸡 (là zi jī ) or chicken in chillies. This Sichuan dish requires that 50 grams of dried chillies be snipped in half and then as many of the seeds as possible remove. I'm not squeamish about it or worried about the heat of anything similar. It's just plain boring and always takes longer than you can imagine.

So I have to work myself up to it. This means I don't eat it as often as I would like. I need to find a volunteer chilli snipper.

I can only think of one thing that I avoid doing.

Breaking down a chicken? No problem. Boning a duck? Great fun. Filetting a fish? Ditto. Chopping onions? A breeze.

But one of my favourite dishes is 辣子鸡 (là zi jī ) or chicken in chillies. This Sichuan dish requires that 50 grams of dried chillies be snipped in half and then as many of the seeds as possible remove. I'm not squeamish about it or worried about the heat of anything similar. It's just plain boring and always takes longer than you can imagine.

So I have to work myself up to it. This means I don't eat it as often as I would like. I need to find a volunteer chilli snipper.