Posted on 05/03/2022 7:07:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
Not exactly. You take a sharp knife and ‘chop’ into the pit. That is intended to give you traction to twist the pit out. Only problem is that the knife may glance off the pit and hit the fingers of the hand stabilizing the Avocado. Any knife sharp enough to bit into an avocado pit will send you to the ER.
No it's not
Soft avocados are rare in the off-season when they are trucking them up from Mexico. Most of the black avocados that I get are pretty firm.
Hold the avocado half with the pit in the palm of your hand, swing the knife PARALLEL to your hand catching the pit with the length of the blade, not the tip. Twist the pit out of the fruit. Trying to pierce the pit with the tip of the blade aimed at your palm is visibly suicidal and those who try it are of a lower mental order.
Score the avocado fruit with the tip of the knife and scoop our either slices or diced chunks, depending on your preference, with a large spoon. The chef at my local taco wagon can do a dozen avocados in 49 seconds. His hands are free of scars. He operates his blade with the confidence of a Viking berserker.
Agreed. Both my husband and I just don’t understand the attraction to avocados. They are tasteless and fattening. When made into guacamole, it is barely tolerable.
Of course, when we lived in Hawaii, we didn’t like poi either.
Knives slip and I would never use one in that manner. Pits are easy to remove with a spoon why use a knife to remove a pit.
Traction is more accurately provided by use of a spoon. Knife is a short cut because it’s in your hand but it’s a poor choice.
Chefs do lots of things that less experienced folks should avoid.
They switched my link!..............
“The first rule: Never use a sharp knife”
Dull knives cause more injuries than sharp knives because you have to use more force with a dull knife.
https://lifehacker.com/keep-your-knives-sharp-dull-knives-cause-more-injuries-5849430
The idiot author should stick to butter knives. The rest of us will be fine.
Stick a fork in it - pop - You’re done.
Wonder if this guy’s writing a book on this?
;-)
Weird. I’ve never had an avocado incident.
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