1. 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.

Posted at 5:36PM on Aug 30th 2005 by Joseph Dowdy

2. Who the hell doesnt know that?

Posted at 6:57AM on Sep 14th 2005 by Michael G

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

Posted at 2:58AM on Aug 12th 2006 by zack

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

Posted at 2:52AM on Nov 15th 2006 by Alex

5. 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!

Posted at 1:34PM on Dec 12th 2006 by SmartITGuy

6. Hehe, this list owns :)

Posted at 2:05PM on Dec 12th 2006 by Ivan Minic

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

Posted at 10:54PM on Dec 12th 2006 by drunkard

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

Posted at 1:46AM on Dec 13th 2006 by Gavin the photographer

9. Great tips, beer can chicken is really redneck tho.

Posted at 7:19AM on Dec 13th 2006 by Salona TV

10. 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.....

Posted at 9:26PM on Dec 13th 2006 by graphicartist2k5

11. You need to fix the link for number 21?

Posted at 8:28PM on Dec 15th 2006 by trench

12. 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!

Posted at 12:15PM on Jan 8th 2007 by l337 c00x0r

13. "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.

Posted at 5:51PM on Jan 8th 2007 by dj245

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

Posted at 6:57PM on Jan 15th 2007 by A. Nuran