At home we often cook cucumber, inspite of throwing the inside seeds, collect them in a bowl add little sugar, keep in refrigerator for an hour, take out and apply on your face, let it stay till it is dried, wash with cool water, it gives freshness to the face in dry skin & it has cooling effect too.

Good tip, but I dont really cook cucumbers and haven't really heard of cucumbers being cooked. I generally eat the seeds as they are in the cucumbers and never de-seed cucumbers.

The cucumber which we eat as salad is different, and i mentioned about the one which we use for cooking, it is famous in India, and really don't know about other countries.

What do you mean different from what we eat? Is there any sort of cucumbers made only for facial care? I thought those regular cucumbers that we also eat here is fine.

There are no cucumbers made specially for facials, there are types of cucumbers which can be cooked & can be eaten directly as salads, they help in giving cooling effect in various manner.

I was not aware that you could cook cucumbers; in fact, this is the first time I have ever heard about it. Plus, I eat the cucumbers with the seeds. I am not quite sure why they have to be removed and frankly, I wonder, since the seeds take up most of the cucumbers, isn't it kind of a waste to just use the rest?

Yeah, there are cooking cucumbers too, there taste is light bitter, they more popular in India and don't know about other countries, may be because of that many of you are confused, and in this cooking cucumber seeds can easily be taken out, and those seeds can be applied to the face as a pack.

How to collect the cucumber seeds from the cucumber? its hard to collect, and even after collecting it and keeping it in refridgerator, its not easily sticking to face, its falling down, anything else to be added to it? to make it applied on face?

inside the cucumber there are seeds which can be collected very easily along with that you'll get juice like think, you can apply that. And always think that there are various types of cucumbers not one, cucumders family is very big, there are cucmbers which can be eaten raw ones and some to be cooked.

I think Kantha is talking about the gourd family. I think specifically
Kantha is talking about the bottle gourd and calling it cucumber.

-F

Hi! Farce, Sorry to tell you that i know the difference between the Gourd and cucumber.

Ok, sorry if I misinterpreted. can you get a picture of what you are
talking about? maybe from google images?

thanks
-F

I googled it and look what I found!!!

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber]Cucumber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]

here it says

"The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon."

-F

Dear Farce,
What you have googled is correct, and i was talking about the yellow coloured cucumber which you find in the site.

OK, I got to the bottom of this confusion. You are talking about
dosakaya? This is available in Andhra and is probably not known
by people outside Andhra. By default the only cucumbers seen
by most of us is the slender green ones that are eaten raw/salads.

OK Here's a picture to help you. Also has the seeds part that Kantha
mentioned.

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That is the reason why i Farce, i mentioned that these cucumbers are mostly found in India, and donno about other places, and the site and picture you have uploaded is they exact one which i mean, you can see the seeds also can be seperated easily.

Hey haven't you guys seen the slightly bigger and fatter cucumbers ? It's called vellarikka in malayalam ....

@ Farce and Kantha - isnt this a type of melon???

It looks like a cantalupe melon but I think this is different.

-F

No Sara, this is cucumber, and in Telugu it is called as Dosakaya. If u have any doubt refer to the site updated by Farce, it will be cleared.

this is cucumber










but it is cantalupe melon

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