How to peel a banana

break it!

Aussie bananas are most of the time thick, hard, and huge.

Not like the typical Asian bananas which are tiny with soft, thin skin.

It's BANANA I'm talking about. 

Don't think of something else! Hahaha.

I once complained to a colleague about how difficult it is to peel it from the top, especially if the banana is still 5% green.

It's like playing Tug-of-war with the banana.

And he said, Don't you know it's easier to peel from the bottom?

From then on, I started peeling from the bottom. 

There's nothing to 'grip' and pull at the bottom, so it has to be done like how we peel oranges. 

But the gum from the banana skin always leaves stain in my nails. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

After 2 years...

I realised, we have been treating it with too much care and wasting too much time.

There must be a better way to do it.

If top and bottom don't work, middle it is.

So I tried breaking it like breaking a sugar cane but with less force of course.

Voila!

It only takes less than 2 seconds, without staining the nails, and you can eat it in parts (convenient when multitasking).

I thought I should share this banana-breaking strategy, for people out there who also tend to struggle with thick banana skin.

    

P.S: Slow application of force would mash/bruise the banana, make it out-of-shape and looks disgusting. Apply all your force instantaneously.