Yes, slice a mango before peeling it. In previous years I peeled first, and doing that with but a single mango should have been enough to tell me that that
isn't the right approach. Instead, I kept trying to learn how to slice a peeled
mango without launching it across the room (or cutting myself).
I guess it was my inability to slice without launching (or without coming perilously close to cutting a finger) that led me to try a whole new approach, as shown in this series of chronological photographs taken this very evening:
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A perfectly soft mango (softening accelerated by the
mango's having been enclosed in a paper bag,
to collect the ethylene exhaled by its skin) |
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I've sliced the right half away from the mango's fibrous seed |
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Now both sides have been sliced away from the seed
(shown in the lower left) |
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Ooh, I forgot; at this point I do a bit of peeling,
of the skin around the narrow perimeter of the seed
(sometimes I get a single long piece of skin, but not this time) |
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Now I've sliced away the flesh from around the seed edges |
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And I've sliced one side into eight segments |
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...and wrapped the other half for having in the morning |
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Now I've sliced the side segments
(and already put the skin into the compost collecting container) |
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I've halved my wife's segments,
arrayed them casually on a small plate, and
provided a round toothpick for dainty eating |
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Now I've added eight large strawberry halves to her plate |
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The chef likes to delectate over smaller pieces,
and to do so still in the kitchen, off the cutting board |
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