You know those moments in life when you learn something so simple, yet so genius your jaw literally drops? I had one of those while mindlessly scrolling on TikTok. The app can teach us so much! I cook for a living, so I'm pretty confident in my knife skills, but I never love getting the pit out of an avocado. Forcing the knife into the pit is always a bit of a risk (I've heard one too many horror stories about trips to the ER!), but now I don't even need a knife.
This TikTok video shows you how to push the pit out with just hands, without damaging any of the avocado. Simply place your index and middle finger on each side of the pit and push the center with your thumb. The pit will pop right out without taking any of the flesh with it.
I was absolutely floored. It's shockingly easy and hard to believe it's not a widely known technique. Now I'm ready to eat all of the stuffed avocado recipes!
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Heads up! This trick works best with perfectly ripe avocados. The firmer your avocado is, the harder it may be. (But that also means your avocado just isn't ready to be eaten yet.)
Makinze is currently senior food editor at Delish, where she develops recipes, creates, and hosts recipe videos and is our current baking queen. She is our expert pie crimper, believes you should always have the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies on hand, and everyone needs to know a perfect roast chicken recipe.
