RECOVERY. The hand or wrist will be placed in a splint to protect the surgical work. Sutures are removed in the office at 2 weeks. Once the tissues are healed between 4-6 weeks, the splints are removed and motion rehabilitation is started to overcome the stiffness that has set in.
Steps. 1  1. Thoroughly wash the apple with water. 2  2. Peel the apple. 3  3. Core the apple.  4. Soak the apple in a mixture of lemon juice and salt (1 cup of lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of salt) for about 15-30 1  minutes. 5. Carve the face as desired, exaggerating the features.  6. Dip your finished face in the lemon juice mixture again. 7. Place the apple in a food dehydrator or in a warm, dry, well ventilated place. You can insert a wire into the apple to hang it, pierce the center with a long skewer and put it in a vase, or place it on a rack.
Dear christineg, Apples decompose much faster if they are cut open than if they are left whole. To see why this is so, consider the mechanism by which an intact apple matures. The apple breathes, as it were, through its peel. It takes in oxygen and converts it to carbon dioxide, which is in return released through the peel. The conversion of oxygen to carbon dioxide causes the cells of the apple to decompose. This is oxidation, the same process whereby cars rust and eventually fall apart. Similarly, during the oxidation of an apple, its starch decomposes into sugar, which decomposes further into organic materials.