I can't believe that you guys don't have my favorite food hack!

Here's how to split an avacado:

1. Get a nice long knife (although practice will permit using a steak knife in the future).
2. Pick a point near the stem end of the avacado.
3. Lay the knife into the avacado and continue pressing the knife through the skin all the way down and then back up the other side of the avacado returning to the original place you entered the avacado.
4. With both hands on both halves of the avacado, twist.
5. Grab the knife and the half with the seed in it in your non-knife hand.
6. Send the middle of the knife blade into the avacado with as much momentum as is safe so that you get a nice satisfying CHOCK sound.
7. Again, with both hands, twist.
8. To get the seed off the knife safely, send the back of the blade askew of the edge of your sink or other hard container hitting the seed on the edge.
9. The slippery seed comes flying off the knife with no mess of trying to mix a sharp blade, a slippery avacado and your valuable fingers.
BONUS
If you want to get slices of your avacado into a salad without difficulty, draw several lengthwise lines into the avacado half with your knife and make sure the point goes all the way down into the skin's inside...then squeeze the avacado over your salad and, voila!, the slices drop down into your yummy salad.

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Who the hell doesnt know that?

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thats not really a food hack. that show youre supposed to take the seed out of an avocado

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"thats not really a food hack. that show youre supposed to take the seed out of an avocado" - absolutely.

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To stop cut/chopped lettuce from wilting or turning brown/rusty, rinse it in water with a bit of lemon juice in it. It will keep for DAYS!

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Hehe, this list owns :)

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best food hack -- to keep your beer/cocktail from sticking to its napkin or coaster, sprinkle a little salt on the coaster.

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My favorite hack is using vitamin B12 to avoid hangovers. Take one before drinking and one before sleeping with a glass of water.

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Great tips, beer can chicken is really redneck tho.

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why in the hell is everything nowadays called a "hack"? all this list contains are things that most grandmothers know how to do, if not most mothers. how about asking them how to do these things, instead of calling them "hacks", just so you can feel all "l337" while you're cooking. so that would mean that your mom or grandmother are teh l337 haxxors just because they know how to do most of the things on this list. i wonder if they know that they're so l337.....

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You need to fix the link for number 21?

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It's a far L337er hax0r who understands the chemical properties of spicy foods than who just scarfs bag after bag of Doritos. Hacking is just using things in unexpected ways, enabled by a superior comprehension of the systems, their behaviors, and their attributes. More power to geeks in the kitchen!

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"Making "bad" vodka "good" using a Brita filter"

Not a very good idea. While the first few batches of vodak you get are arguably better, you have to filter several times, and lose alcohol in the process due to evaporation, filter losses, etc. This burns out the filter surprisingly fast. We blasted through a $7 filter on one 1 Liter bottle of cheap vodak. You would be much better off buying top shelf.

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To keep a home-made mayonnaise from separating, make it with a bit of dijon mustard.

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Love this list. Beer Can Chicken is delicious!

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Nice article, I will have to give these food hacks a shot.

http://www.hackfu.org

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