How To Crack Open Almonds With A Meat Mallet

CaveTools

Hey this is Michael 'Medium Rare' O'Donnell with Cave Tools, and in this quick tutorial we're going to teach you how to easily crack open in almonds with your meat tenderizing mallet. So what you want to do is place the almonds down on a cutting board vertically, and take just one or two quick little hits out and going to pop open the shell and it's going to separate it. From there you can peel off the rest of the shell and you can get your almond. So let's try this one more time, this time we're going to be using the pyramid side of the mallet. We're just going to do a down and outward motion so that it just pops off that top. You can then just peel the rest apart, and then once again you've got your almond and it's incredibly easy. And as you just saw the meat mallet is not just for tenderizing meat, there's a ton of awesome uses for it in the kitchen. Whether you need it for crushing nuts, garlic, hard candy, ice. Pretty much anything else, it's just an incredibly useful to have around the kitchen.