This Now-$7 Pickle Fork May Just Be the Greatest Gadget I’ve Ever Seen

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Everybody who eats pickles needs it.

We love pickles in my house—there is always a jar in the refrigerator. Not just because a cold cut sandwich feels incomplete without one but because a pickle makes a perfect tangy, crunchy snack in the middle of the day. But let's be honest, pickles are usually packed so tightly in the jar that removing them is messy work. Your fingers end up stained with pickle juice, and the sour-smelling stuff usually ends up on your counter, too.

There’s a simple solution to a situation most people have come to accept: Chef’n makes this condiment fork specifically designed to help you remove pickles from the jar, without ever actually touching them, and it’s only $7 at Amazon.

Buy it: $7 (was $10); Amazon

This pickle fork uses three needle-like precision tines to remove gherkins, olives, and pickles from the jar. Doing it this way is so much more sanitary than using your fingers, and much less messy.

Now, you might be wondering why you shouldn’t just use a standard size fork instead, but there are a couple problems with that logic: First of all, using a different fork every time you want to eat a pickle means more dishes for you to clean later. Secondly, sometimes a regular fork is too bulky, and the tines are too thick, to properly spike a pickle—let alone an individual olive or gherkin. That’s where the narrow, and more easily maneuverable pickle fork comes in handy.  And you’ll also want to have it handy when you’re camping, and you want to keep potentially dirty hands away from the condiments, as well as at dinner parties so that your guests have an easy to spear olives and other snacks.

If you’re worried about losing track of it in one of your kitchen drawers, the pickle fork comes with a caddy which can be secured around most standard sized jars using the attached band—so no one in your family will have any excuse for leaving a dirty fork on the counter.

More than 9,000 Amazon shoppers have given the pickle fork a perfect rating at Amazon thanks to the fact that it regularly comes in handy. One shopper called the pickle fork a “game changer,” and wrote, “No more struggling to fish out pickles or olives from their jar and spilling pickle juice all over the counter.”

Another shopper wrote “not only is it easy to clean and fits most [jars],” but it’s also a “must-have for any charcuterie board.”

If you and your family eat pickles regularly, this pickle fork isn’t a want—it’s a need. And since it’s on sale for just $7, there’s no reason not to grab one right now.

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