Fruit Hacks

This week on Life Hack Lab I decided to get fruity.

By that I mean I tested out some fruit related life hacks.


Break An Apple In Half Life Hack:

For the first life hack, all you need is an apple, two hands and the will of a warrior. The first life hack I found for this week is ripping an apple in half with your bare hands! At this point you might be thinking, “how can this be a helpful life hack?” Oh ye of little faith.

Imagine if you will, you and a buddy are hiking through the woods when suddenly the two of you realize your stomachs are empty and you need to eat. Unfortunately, your friend only brought one apple to eat. Or at least, it would be unfortunate if you hadn’t learned this amazing life hack from this blog. Your friend looks on in astonishment as you tear the delicious treat asunder. You then toss him his half as you feast on your splendor.

                   

To break an apple in half with your hands you need to remove the stem and place the apple between your hands. Put the bottom parts of your thumbs into the crevasse were the stem was and begin pushing into the apple and pulling your thumbs apart. I used the tips of my thumbs to help get the apple cracking. You can see me do this in the video below. 

Initially, I was skeptical about this life hack. The apple I saw this done to online was small. I decided if the hack didn’t also work on a bigger apple I would fail the life hack. To my amazement, it did work. The apple ended up taking me about 35 seconds to split in half, but I think with some practice I could have done it in half the time. This apple life hack is approved.

Already Cut Banana Life Hack:

Up next, I found a life hack that isn’t very useful but could be fun to surprise people with. Watch the video below to see what the life hack is.



With this hack, you can have an unsuspecting person peel a banana only to find that it has miraculously been cut into small pieces already. But how does it work? You take something like a needle or safety pin and poke a hole into the banana. Once the pin is inside the banana, move it back and forth horizontally to cut the inside of the banana. Then take out the pin and repeat a few times moving further down the banana with each puncture.

 

 

Is it a practical way to cut a banana? No really. But it’s a cool trick that’s bound to blow somebody’s mind.

 

Strawberry Life Hack:

Lastly, I discovered a quick and easy way to get rid of the stem from a strawberry. If you push a straw through the center of a strawberry from the bottom up it will pop those annoying leaves out of the top of the tiny fruit. Check out the photos of how I did this below.

                   

This life hack is simple and perhaps allows you to have more strawberry left than cutting the leaves off. The only slight negative is the weird tube shaped piece of strawberry attached to the stem that is left over afterwards. If you can get passed how strange it looks I suppose you could eat this part too. This strawberry life hack is approved.

Come back next week to see me test out some more interesting life hacks.