How to Slice a Mango
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As a person living in a tropical country where mango is available everywhere: we use the a normal fruit pealer. U waste too much meat using knife :/
Kazandra Asaha Seriously, he's using the wrong tool for the job. But I guess when you prepare everything with a chef's knife, it's like trying to hammer a screw.
You have no idea how hard the mango is in the UK, feels like plums. Using fruit peeler just wouldn't do the job. Mangos in China however, could be ripen and then it becomes quite soft.
Is it just me or does the mango look unripe. It looks much harder and paler than the kind of mango I buy.
In the US the skin is super thick and not easy to peel with a peeler =/
That mango looks too firm, with the ones in here I only cut in into 3 pieces and then proceed to eat it with a spoon.
You left out the part where you clean the pit by chewing and scraping all the fruit off with your teeth until your mouth becomes sore from all the urushiol.
When the comment section is more informative than the video.
FlesHBoX lmao, i can feel the pain alread
That's the best part.
Is it just me or does the mango look unripe. It looks much harder and paler than the kind of mango I buy. I just a regular potato peeler and it works perfectly without wasting any mango like this method seem to do.
So much waste...
too much
Or you can cut along the flat pit as close as you can, cut cross hatches on the flesh side of the pieces you cut off, invert the mango piece and scrape the pre-cubed mango off the skin. Then just clean up the corners. A friend taught me that and I'm not going back. It even works when you're out roaming the world and you want a snack and it's just you, a mango, and a knife.
That's how I was taught to do it!
How I was trained as well, easy to scrape off the cubed pieces and looks fancy on a plate - fun food!
Yes, that is the correct way!
Why do ALL of the “food experts” waste SOOO much food? Wait, I know; they don’t have to pay for it! Right?
No, it's because they're generally restaurant trained and going for speed over anything else.
I like to use the curved edge of a glass
Fruit peeler for home use would be handy too.
You didn’t show us how to tell the pit from the flesh which is why I never cut mangoes. I just peel them and eat it like an apple
You get those for FREE.... Don't ya?
I usually slice in an angle around the seed to take more flash off. I don't leave it in a rectangle shape.
Eat it like an apple. No waste, and the mango skin tastes great!
No way Jose!
BUT HOW TO TELL WHEN RIPE
About twelve seconds before it starts to spoil
Sort of like avocados, when it’s not totally hard anymore, and has a little give.
Simple and great
Another way that I've been using all my life.
Cut the mango on both sides as close as poss to the flat sides of the pit. Then , holding the ' cheek ' in one hand, scoop out all the pulp with a teaspoon. Cut the remaining strips from the edges of the pit & scoop out the remaining pulp with a spoon.
Why don't you follow the skin with your knife as you roll it around on the board? You'd lose less fruit.
ATK, you're now a shadow of your former self. Be better.
Oh get a grip
Smaller knife, paring knife works great for getting to all the mango meat near the seed - also slices cleaner next to the skin. Might take a few extra seconds, but much less waste, especially when you have paid for the mango fruit to eat.
If anything, slice off the bottom. Hold the mango in your hand, sliced butt end toward you. Use a potato single blade peeler. Peel off the thinnest of peeled skin on the upper one half side of the seed. WHO SAYS you must eat mango in CHUNKS ?! Use the peeler and make mango mandolined slices or spaghetti strips. Slice off that half of the mango from the seed, for the cleanest of all processing. Then turn over, and peel the skin, and continue mandolining the mango meat from the seed. Now you have (modest seconds more ...) the cleanest, and easiest, of edible mango to eat, versus chewing on big onery chunks. Scatter these slices or spaghetti cuts over your salad, much like carrot slices over cole slaw for an easy-eat mango salad.
Could even cut the bottom of the mango. Put on bottom. Then make slice insertions down entire mango. Cut down and off entire sections of mango skin and meat. Lay the smaller mango slices on table top, and filet off the skin for the most meat. Easier to handle the mango and seed. Mere seconds more to process, and much more meat, and a cleaner seed and skins to dispose.
Or you could be using it for a specific application and you just naw on the pit. Especially if you peeping fine dining. Scraps are our lunch.
Wait, where's the pit?!
There's an easier, less waste way to do it. First cut the two meaty sides off from the pit (there are many ways to do this). Then separate the meat from the skin using a spoon (as long as the mango is ripe, a spoon should be able to do the job since it isn't fibrous near the skin). Now you're free to slice it any way you want.
DO NOT CUT MANGO LIKE THIS.
That's a lot of wastage there.
And yet another way.. cut the base off as you did but then cut the fruit down each side of the Flat Seed...
Then take a ridged plastic cup and peel the meat out of the skin.. Bob’s Uncle, So Easy and don’t waste hardly a drop of fruit...
Our Kent tree is dropping 10 or so a day so we need to be quick in our processing...
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I said Peel but it is more like Scooping out the meat from skin...
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That’s the rawest mango I’ve ever seen
Beautiful cut Love it😋🤗😍♥️♥️
I disagree with this method.
omg, just use a potato peeler.
Neville Longbottom it’s not cleaner or more narrow. I feel I need to do a video on this even ripe mangos in North America (not Mexico) suck.
The skin is the best part!!!
Mango is one of the few fruits I try to get frozen, that way there is no waste of flesh, also they are sure to be ripe.
Thank you! I was making a total mess of my mangoes. Not anymore.
Never saw that chef at ATK, who is he and is he new?
I didn't know how to before I watch this video. Thanks! 🙄
A better way: cut the mango almost at the center all the way around down to the pit. Hold both sides and twist. One side should rotate off the pit. Cut that into long strips and then insert a sharp knife between skin and meat, hold the skin down on the counter while you draw the knife between the skin and meat - similar to how you would take the skin off a fillet of fish.
You can do the other half in a similar way and then what little is left on the pit can be cut off.
:) done this so many times over the years as my daughter is a mango addict.
Never saw that chef at ATK is he new?
How about a Pomegranate and Jackfruit next? Also Pineapple! :)
Juicy and deeper orange. "Chefs" always have to have neat a un-messy looking but it's not flavorful. I bought a bag of frozen and its the same- bland. When I use just a little fresh and Ripe in a smoothie , it bursta with zingy flavor!
What's wrong with the hedgehog method?
What a fantastically American way to eat a mango - utter trite.
I just eat the whole thing🙆♂️
Come on team. Others have mentioned it already ....chew up the pit to avoid and any wastage and use a peeler for the skin. You guys don't mind wasting product because it doesn't come out of your pocket. Fire your producer.
Or eat the skins...they taste great
This guy needs to go to Australia and learn the real way to eat mango
Howtobasic in the beginning
hi @america's test kitchen, while there are better ways to cut a mango, what I really wanted to say was - don't say divide and conquer, its reminiscent of the British Indian colonisation which continues to ravage India to this day. I know there's too many things to be careful about. I try, I hope you do too. And THANK YOU for all the wonderful content. There are many that you do that are super useful.
Is is generally attributed to Philip of Macedonia, so roughly 300 B.C., I never associated it with Great Britain or India. I would assume that *America's* Test Kitchen wouldn't either, so any offense is very likely not meant as such. My best to you from Germany.
Noppeeee
when does this get meta
does anyone not cut a mango that way?
Too much mango wasted on the peel and pit. Also this method only works for semi ripe mangos, not fully ripe soft ones. However good effort for showing people how to cut a mango, some minor tweaks that are already in the comments and this video will help a lot of people.
what the actual shit, i'm offended
No no no. Florida girl here and that is not how you cut a mango.
What a waste
Western mangoes look so pale.
he doesnt even know how to cut a mango
Have any of you actually ate a mango. The meat near the skin is no good. If you go to close to the pit the meat is fibrous. Everyone’s a critic.
Will Sturdy If your meat is fibrous then your mango is too old. My pit meat is fine when it's at the correct ripeness.
Will.... Sit Down.
Depends on the mango type.
Will Sturdy This is true for my mangoes.
It should be noted that this is American Test Kitchen. If you have access to beautiful mangos good for you, but mangos here are tougher, it’s all we can get.
Horrible, what a waste