How to cut an Avocado!
Follow These Steps
- Cut the avocado in half. Using a sharp chef’s knife, slice through the avocado lengthwise until you feel the knife hit the pit. …
- Remove the pit. …
- If dicing, score the flesh of the avocado without piercing the skin. …
- If slicing, scoop out and slice.
For ripe avocados, the outer skin or peel is easy to remove.
- Simply slice the avocado in half or cut into wedges as shown in the photo.
- Grasp the outer dark layer or skin and pull it away from the inner green flesh of the fruit.
How can you tell if an avocado is ripe?
Gently squeeze the avocado without applying pressure from your fingertips, as this can cause bruising. If the avocado yields to firm, gentle pressure, it is ripe and ready to eat. If the avocado does not yield to gentle pressure, it is “firm” and will be ripe in a couple of days.
Can you keep half an avocado in the fridge?
Store Fresh Cut Ripe Avocados. Sprinkle cut, mashed or sliced fruit with lemon or lime juice or another acidic agent and place in an air-tight container or tightly covered clear plastic wrap. The fruit can be stored in your refrigerator for a day.
How to get the stone (pit) out of an avocado?
- Halve the avocado by cutting around the seed lengthwise. Rotate the two halves apart.
- Take the half with the seed and hack a sharp knife in the pit, as if you were hitting it with an axe. Be careful with your fingers! …
- If you remove the knife with a turning motion, the stone should come with it.
