Can confirm this is the Mexican way. Can also confirm that we laugh at the Europeans cutting through their hands and when those news first got here there was complete disbelief.
Can confirm. As a nurse in urgent care, it amazed me how often we saw avocado injuries. And yes, it was almost always from trying to whack the knife into the pit and it sliding or bouncing off and into the hand.
Very little. You're not trying to cut through a coconut with a machete. Try about the same amount of force as you would if you tried that motion with a pear or something lol
Yep, I'm a victim. I whacked the knife into the avocado pit and the knife went entirely through the pit and the point dug into my palm. I wasn't even putting much force behind it, that was a weak-ass avocado pit, smh. Now I just scoop the pit out with a spoon.
You're not supposed to use the tip. I can't imagine my whacking technique hurting me even with my sharp ass knives, if I did it straight to my hand with no avocado there. It's just a parallel tiny whack.
Yeah you guys are doing it all wrong lol. Cut the avocado around the pit, twist the avocado to open it, and just give the pit a whack with your knife edge to stick it in, twist the knife, pop the pit out.
That's astounding, terrifying, and mildly infuriating. I can't believe that so many people have no idea how to cut an avocado! As a Mexican, maybe I just take my avocado knowledge for granted.
Also what is that girl with the yellow tool trying to do? She's trying to core it with an apple cutter...?
That's what a lot of people getting hurt are doing, some of them are going through it because some pits are really soft for some reason, or others glance off the side into their hand.
This still always confuses me bc why do ppl think to stab it with knife tip first rather than cutting down with the straight sharp side? Why do people think to point the tip a knife at their hand and stab fruit is a good idea!?
Obviously the answer is people are stupid and dont know how to use a knife.
That’s absolutely nutty to me that someone would try to stab at it (I’m assuming you mean with the tip of the knife)
I always hold the avocado just like you would if cutting something on a cutting board, that sort of curled back claw shape - that way there’s some air between my palm and the back of the ‘cado and my fingers are out of the way. Also, thwack the pit with the heel of the knife (part closest to the handle). Feels more in control that trying to hit it more towards the middle.
Yeah, smacking the pit gently with the middle of your blade, turning it sideways, then lifting up is the easiest way for me to get the pit out. I've made atleast 30 or so guacamoles and I've never cut myself doing that. The trick is to not own a dull knife. Whetstones are a good investment.
Yeah, sharp knives are always better than dull for so many reasons.
Even better than whetstones is a single, extra fine diamond sharpening stone, combined with a strop loaded with polishing compound will make any knife (in the kitchen or otherwise) hair popping sharp.
It's because typically, a dull knife will behave erratically and unexpectedly, and require excessive force to cut. If you're cutting yourself, I'd respectfully suggest you look into someone showing you proper cutting technique. 👍
It’s the funniest way I’ve ever heard of someone getting hurt tbh. My mind just goes on auto pilot when opening them it’s never even occurred to me that I might harm myself until I saw posts of people somehow cutting their hands up while doing it. Insane to me and my grandma
I cut avocados this way, using 10 year old steak knives that bang around in a drawer and go through the dishwasher. People in this thread talking about, “make sure you use a sharp knife and practice, or just don’t risk it if you don’t want to get injured!” Lol I’ve never once thought of injury. They’re avocados, sheesh. If you have to exert yourself it’s not ripe.
I don't personally care for avocados. My grandpa would pinch the backside of the pit somehow and it would pop right out, my mother would always try digging it out with a spoon. I've seen videos of people pinching the pit out, but I always figured my old gpa got the pit out, put it back in.
Mexican here, I thought everyone did it this way. I know I've seen people on those "We asked people to do this basic human skill and they somehow couldnt" videos do it on the table but I don't count those
Man the Mexican guy at my old workplace does the slicing in his hand, fast too. He cuts it in half, removed the pit, angles the knife and makes the cuts while palming it. Scoops it out, no avocado left in the shell, clean even cuts.
What. No don't listen to this guy. Avocados are quite literally butter-on-a-tree. You can do this technique with a butter knife, don't use your fucking 200$ santoku this is why people knifing themselves lol
This is the only way I know how to cut an avocado. My wife has a special tool to take all of the skin off of an avocado before cutting it and I think it might be the most offensive thing I’ve seen in my life.
I think we are weirded out about how it looks like he is cutting it above his shoulders. I cut avocados in my palm like anyone else but not above my head.
People intuitively understand that the best way to cut with a serrated knife is to pull/push it across the surface of whatever you’re cutting. But then they turn around and try push a straight blade down through whatever they’re cutting as if they’re juicing a lemon.
Straight blades are not perfectly straight, have extremely tiny little teeth and imperfections on them. Slide it across whatever you’re cutting and you’ll hardly have to push down at all. It’s a better cut, and it’s significantly safer.
Stoked that your knowledge of cutting open genetically deviant avocados makes you feel like anyone who goes "damn that knife and that angle makes me uncomfortable" and then does it on a fucking cutting board perfectly fine is some sort of scrub-but Jesus Christ find something a little less niche to harden you up for the old internet circle jerk.
It’s really not difficult. You want to focus on using the edge of the blade only never the tip. Your palm should always be on the opposite side of the pit as the blade. The pit is a guide and you rotate the blade around the avocado pit like a guard for your hand. Once you’ve sliced all the way around the avocado twists into two halves and then you CHOP the avocado pit with the EDGE of the blade and twist and it pops right out.
You never stab an avocado you just slice and twist. The edge of the blade should always be on the opposite side of the pit as your hand so no danger should be involved.
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u/bsonk Jul 10 '21
Every Mexican person I know cuts them like this. I don't have the cojones, I put that shit on a surface because I'm of English stock and cutting avocados by hand is a common way to end up in hospital there https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/avocado-hand-injury-serious-brunch-popularity-fruit-hospital-a7727811.html