Forum: lifehacks.stackexchange.com
Tags: <food>
Title: How can I eat an apple without getting sticky fingers?
Question: I really enjoy eating apples, however it is annoying when hands get sticky.   How can I eat an apple so that the juices do not make my hands sticky?

Answers:
sents: text: Counterintuitively, corn on the cob holders can be good for this.
text: They dig into the apple directly, rather than a fork which curves and can cause difficulty in angling it right without biting into metal.
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/180/Tim
score: 14
sents: text: You can make it sort of a caramel apple (without the caramel).
text: Get a popsicle stick or something else similar and stick it in the bottom of the apple.
text: Now you can eat it without get sticky.
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/20/michaelpri
score: 6
sents: text: Take a knife / fork or something and jam
text: it top down into the apple.
text: Then you have a nice handle and can eat all the apple you want.
text: When finished use something other then your hand to strip the apple off the knife / fork and clean it.
text: I do this by laying the apple on the ground, standing on it and pull the knife out to the side.
text: You have to clean your knife afterwards, so it isn't sticky itself.
text: A leaf from a tree can work as hanky in this case.
text: Be careful not to cut yourself or bite on the metal though.
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/129/Angelo Fuchs
score: 4
sents: text: I hold the apple with one hand and eat a circle around the "equator".
text: I then either snap the apple in half and eat the remaining flesh from each half, holding the inner bit of the core and a "dimple".
text: Eating the remaining flesh without snapping the apple in half is possible, but I find this leaves me with a sticky chin.
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/47/James Webster
score: 1
sents: text: I just cut the apple in little pieces like the picture below then
text: I'll just it eat using a fork.
text: This also avoids throwing the remains of an apple , so you can just do anything you want while eating apple.
text: :)
text: I do this when I am so lazy to get up
text: , I just want to eat and play games, or watch movies or focus on programming.
text: :)
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/1251/Cary Bondoc
score: 1
sents: text: First, cut out some paper towels so that they are just bigger then your hand, then eat the apple while holing them.
text: Doing this stops apple juice form getting all over your hands.
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/104/The Idiot Gamer
score: 0
sents: text: Use a corer/slicer.
text: Now that you have eight slices with no more waste, just pick them up with a fork.
answer_details: author: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/users/15/Mooseman
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Ways to eat apples without getting your hands sticky include using corn holders or poking a stick in the bottom of the apple. Another method involves eating around the equator, snapping the apple in half and eating the flesh of each half. Alternateively, you could cut the apple into small piece or hold it using paper towel.
Solutions include using a corn sob holder, a toffee apple type stick, eating the 'equator' first, cutting the apple into pieces, using a paper towel to avoid juices and using a corer/slicer.