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Crack an Apple in Half With Your Bare Hands

Introduction: Crack an Apple in Half With Your Bare Hands

Demonstrate your super-human strength by ripping an apple in half with your bare hands. Learn the simple technique here.

If you prefer the video version of the Instructable, you can see the process in this short video.

Step 1: Technique

This trick is all about the technique. As the video explains, humans are not strong enough to simply grab a hold of an apple and rip it apart. The secret is to use your hands in such a way that the harder you grip the more pressure is applied from the stem of the apple outward. Keep this idea in mind as we proceed to the next steps.

Step 2: Wiggle the Fleshy Part of Your Thumbs Into the Stem Area

Remove the stem and then wriggle the base of your thumbs (actually part of your palms) into where the stem was. The rest of your fingers go around the apple and rest on the bottom of the apple.

If you put your hands in this position without the apple and pull your fingers toward your wrists, you will notice that your thumbs roll out. This rolling is the force that will split the apple open.

Step 3: Grip and Roll

With your hands set as described in step 2 squeeze hard and let your thumbs roll outward. You will feel the ripping force increase as your grip tightens. As you grip harder, the apple will break in half.

Step 4: Some Things I Have Learned

There are a few things that I have learned from teaching this to people.

1. Pretty much anyone can do this. I learned it from my mom and even my 12-year-old boy scouts can do it — even the skinny ones.

2. It sometimes helps to use your knee to strengthen your grip. Try pushing on your knee with you fingers as shown in the photo.

3. It sometimes helps to start out with a softer apple or a very crisp ripe one. If the apple is not ripe, it might be more difficult.

4. Size matters. You will eventually be able to crack all sizes, but it may be easier to start with one that fits comforably in your hand — not to big, not too small.

5. If you haven’t already watched the video, then I recomend you do so. Sometimes its just easier to see done.

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TIL I’ve been doing it wrong. I’ve been putting my thumbtips in the stem area and my fingertips at the bottom then pulling them apart top down. This looks much easier.

will this work on normal sized apples, or just those tiny things?

Reply 7 years ago on Introduction

When I was kid, there was a guy in my neighborhood with an amazing garden. He grew apples almost as big as a soccer ball. You could make a whole pie from just one. He often made the gift of one apple to the neighbors. Anyway, I’m not sure this works with his apples, but this will work with most apples you would come across.

Reply 6 years ago on Introduction

I guess I should try it, it’s a little late for apples though, first frost has been and gone.

A few extra tips to people trying this:

1. Start with Gala or Honeycrisp apples, they are the easiest to do, so you can learn the technique. Granny smith and other green apples are damn near impossible when you start out.

2. if the two palms together thing does not work for you, try one palm, and one thumb down in the stem, sometimes thats easier.

3. ‘find the sweet spot’ I always start out by putting a thumb in the stem, and sort of rotating the apple and feeling it, after a little practice, you sort of develop a feel for finding the direction to try and split the apple. They are all different, but there is generally a ‘sweet spot’ which the apple breaks along easier than other angles.

4. remember, your basicly pulling it in half, don’t squeeze to much, but rather, think of it like opening a book that is stuck shut, with the spine at the base of the apple and the pages at the top, where your palms are.

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Have you ever looked at a piece of fruit and thought to yourself, «you suck, fruit, sitting there all smug and happy, I wish I could just destroy you here and now?» If so, read on—your favorite Fat-man is going to show you how you can get your revenge on that happy smug fruit sitting in your fridge by breaking an apple in half with your bare hands.

Step 1: Obtain the Tools of Destruction

Go into your attic and find your hands. Attach them firmly, making sure there are no gaps around the wrist area. Then go find an apple. Any kind will do, although I personally find Braeburn to be the perfect mix of smug and annoying.

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• If you try this with a Granny Smith, there’s no two ways about it—you’re going to hurt yourself. Braeburn apples, Golden Delicious, and smaller or softer varieties work very well.
• This can hurt your thumb. If it hurts, stop.

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