Blame it on the avocado toast. Apparently, people are injuring themselves at increasing rates, trying to get into their precious avocados.
It’s enough of an issue that it has a name: “avocado hand.” Joy Behar recently talked about her avocado-related injury on “The View,” and even our national treasure Meryl Streep fell victim to avocado hand back in 2012.
I have also accidentally grazed my hand with a knife while opening up an avocado, leading to a fainting spell in which my father in law had to catch me and help my unconscious body down to the floor of my kitchen. Thankfully, I didn’t need a trip to the emergency room. The only thing I needed to overcome was my embarrassment.
Since that incident, I learned to be especially careful cutting open my avocados, using a duller knife. But that doesn’t always get the job done, especially when it comes to removing the pit inside.
Then, my husband bought me one of the best kitchen gadgets I’ve ever used. I can now bid farewell to “avocado hand” forever.
Meet OXO’s Good Grips 3-in-1 Avocado Slicer. Sure, there are more seemingly essential kitchen gadgets out there, especially ones that have more than one function. But honestly, I’ve used this little guy more often in the last week than I have used the food processor we got on our wedding registry nine years ago.
For $9.99, this gadget helps to split, pit, and slice avocados without the worry of “avocado hand.”
Last week, I pulled out this little gadget while my friends Linda and Ellen were over for dinner. Linda promptly ordered it from Amazon on her phone that night.
She also shared her own favorite avocado gadget with me: the Evriholder Avo Saver Avocado Holder. It’s perfect to use when you only want to eat half an avocado and preserve the other half.
So, when it came to making some breakfast for dinner last night, my little OXO friend was the perfect helper to make some yummy avocado toast with a soft-boiled egg.
