Cutting up mangos?

Hermia

I bought a couple of cheap mangos today. I've never had one before and very nice it was too, but I made a right mess of getting into it. I know I can't eat the skin or the stone, but I didn't know how much of the harder flesh I could eat in the middle. I basically pulverised the poor thing trying to get into it. Is there an easy way to cut one up? Ta!

seraphina

Chop it into two halves around the hard stony bit in the middle.

Make a criss cross grid by cutting a series of lines across the cut surface. Go all the way through the fruit but don't cut through the skin. Repeat at right angles to get your grid. Then put your thumbs on the skin and turn the fruit inside out - it will seperate along the cut lines to give you a series of cubes. Not very easy to describe so have a look here:
http://www.kanjukumango.com/gif/mango-cut.jpg

jenniferpa

You can eat up to the stone if you want to. I normally put them on their side, make a cut all the way round, and using a sharp knife slice down slowly beside the stone on one side keeping as close to the stone as possible, repeat on the otherside, and then cut off any flesh that is left around the stone. It's a little like filleting. To get the flesh off the skin you can either peel the skin off, depending on how ripe it is, scoop it off, or score the flesh one way and then the other (not through the skin) and then just push in from the skin side to turn it inside out.

Jennifer

Omertron

If you look at the mango, it looks like a flattened rugby ball (best I can think of) with the stone being a similar shape in the middle. Stand it on end and slice downwards parallel to the stone, do the same for the other side, then slice along the stone to remove the remaining flesh. Not sure it that's much help?

THIS might explain it a little better.

arkonite_babe

Slice round the stone lengthways, if you get my drift, the mango should then pull apart. You can then cut the flesh into cubes inside the skin, turn the skin inside out and pick the cubes off.

I will see if can find anything that explains it better than I'm doing :rolleyes:

HTH

arkonite_babe

Aha!!

I found one with pictures

Cutting a mango

Omertron

arkonite_babe wrote:

Aha!!

I found one with pictures

Cutting a mango

Nice find, I was looking for the same, but I just throw mine in the blender, skin and all, to make a smoothie

Bossyboots

Um, I tear a piece of the skin and then eat it with a spoon, scooping out the flesh and removing the rest of the skin as I go.

What a common mare I am!

Hermia

Wow! I never knew eating fruit could be so complicated. I probably burned off about 100 calories trying to get into mine this morning!

Penny-Pincher!!

I love Mango! Normally peel it then eat with my hands and end up with it all over my face:eek: ......lurvely!!

PP
xx

Bossyboots

Penny-Pincher!! wrote:

I love Mango! Normally peel it then eat with my hands and end up with it all over my face:eek: ......lurvely!!

PP
xx

A fellow slurper. I get in such a mess doing that and it makes my face a bit sore so that is why I resorted to using a spoon. Much more fun your way but too many tell tale marks left (especially when you've nicked the last one out of the fridge).