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Cut Pineapple, Mango, and Melon
Food & Cooking

Cut Pineapple, Mango, and Melon

Three fruits, a sharp knife, and pieces you would actually put in a bowl

40 min4 photographed stepsBeginner

You will break down a pineapple (eyes out), a mango (not a stringy massacre), and a melon without wasting half the flesh or putting a hole in your hand. Board, towel, sharp knife. How-to, not a garnish contest.

What you'll learn

  • Towel under the board
  • Pineapple: ends, rind, eyes, core
  • Mango: stand it on the fat side, slice off the cheeks, score, invert
  • Melon: stable wedge, scoop seeds, cut off rind

Inside this course

  • The boardA sliding board is how you visit urgent care.
  • PineappleTop and bottom, stand it, rind down, eyes out, core last.
  • MangoThe pit is a flat oval. Cheeks first.
  • Melon, then the bowlStable, seeds out, rind off, cubes.

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Towel, board, sharp knife, fruit dry
01Towel, board, sharp knife, fruit dry

Damp towel under the board. Dry the fruit so it doesn't skate. Fingers curled, knuckles as a fence. You are not sawing toward your palm.

Clear the sink. Pineapple juice goes everywhere.

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Towel, board, sharp knife, fruit dry

Step 1

Towel, board, sharp knife, fruit dry

Cut the plume and the base, then the rind

Step 2

Cut the plume and the base, then the rind

Stand on the fat end, slice beside the pit

Step 3

Stand on the fat end, slice beside the pit

Halve, spoon seeds, wedges, rind, cube

Step 4

Halve, spoon seeds, wedges, rind, cube

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