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Is it possible to do the wrist-flip-trick backwards? I don't really see how it would be. I'm horrible at opening bananas anyway (peeling them I can do no problem), but I hardly see how anything is more efficient than the wrist-flip-trick.

I'll bite. What's the wrist-flip trick?

I tend to open a banana by cutting the tip off. A tool-using animal, that's me.

I cut the tip off, too, but I am scoffed at by the non-tool-using animals of my acquaintance.

My sister-in-law is a runner, and she has this way of holding a banana by the stem end, with the curve going skyward, and then flicking her wrist downward just enough that the banana essentially half-peels itself but does not fall off onto the ground, leaving you with a neatly emptied skin. Mark does it this way now, and I think Timprov does, too, but he can speak for himself when he wakes up, if he cares to.

That's pretty much it. Grsp the stem in the V of your hand, with your thumb on the inside of the curve and your index finger on the outside. Flip like you're turning a doorknob. It takes about two seconds to completely open a ripe banana that way.