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Place the mango on a steady cutting board. Use your non-dominant hand to put the mango upright on the cutting board. You will cut the mango from the top down. The dominant hand holds a serrated blade.

Use a serrated knife to cut the mango into three pieces. There is a flat seed in the middle of a mango that cannot be cut into it. The mango is also oval in shape. When cutting a mango into three pieces, you need to cut two parallel pieces on either side of the seed, usually about 2 cm thick.

• The two flattest edges of a mango are called the "mango cheeks."
• When cutting a mango, try to cut it so that the cheeks have as much meat as possible, since this is what you will eat.
• In the end you should have three pieces of the mango: two pieces with thick flesh and the middle with seeds.

Cut the umbrella on the mango cheek. Use a knife to cut the vertical and horizontal lines on the cheeks of the mango. Each cut should be about 1.5 cm apart and not cut off the shell.

Press the shell under the mango cheek so that the flesh of the mango sticks out. The pieces of mango will spread out to look like a hedgehog's back, so this mango cut is also known as a "hedgehog pattern". Now you're ready to take out most of the mango meat.

Use a pruning knife to remove the pieces of the mango from the skin. Now you can cut the mango pieces out of the skin and enjoy. Remember to be careful because the peel of the mango is very thin. If you cut off the shell, you can also cut it by hand. Sometimes, if the mango is fully ripe, you can peel each piece of the mango with your hand. Many people like to eat mangoes right on the peel!

Use a small knife to cut around the seeds. Place the mango with the seeds on the cutting board and cut around the seeds with a knife. It can be difficult to know the exact location of a mango seed, but usually where you cut it hard it is the seed. Mango seeds are also oval in shape.

Peel off the rest of the mango meat. Use your fingers to gently peel the peeled piece of the mango with the seeds. Mango peels are very thin and easy to peel off. advertisement

Method 2 of 2: Cut the corn style

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   Wash the mango. Hold the mango under cool running water and gently rub it with your hands while washing. You can also use a vegetable wash brush to scrub the mango peel, but this is not necessary as you will not be eating the peel.

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   Peel the mango with a vegetable blade. The dominant hand holds a planer, the opposite hand holds the mango upright. Gently move the blade of the blade to move each long stroke along the mango.
   • You don't have to press too hard when peeling a mango.
   • Rotate the mango while peeling if necessary.
   • Be careful: hands can be very slippery when you peel a mango.

3. 

   Cut the head and tail of the mango. The mango fruit has an elongated shape. The ends of the mango are small on the sides and have a rounded tip. Cut the ends of the mango into flat surfaces.

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   Plug the two forks to hold the corn on the ends of the mango. The two pointed teeth of the fork holding the corn will easily sink into the mango. You will hold the fork to hold the corn while cutting off the mango to dry your hands and prevent it from getting slippery.

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   Use a knife to cut the mango into three pieces. The mango has a flat seed in the middle that you can't cut through. Even the mango is oval in shape. When cutting the mango into three pieces, you'll cut two parallel pieces on either side of the seed, about 2 cm thick.
   • The two flattest edges of the mango are called the "mango cheeks", and these are the two pieces you are cutting.
   • When cutting a mango, make an effort to cut as much as possible on the remaining cheek meat, since this is what you will eat.
   • Finally you should have three pieces of the mango: two on the sides and one in the middle with the seeds.

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   Cut out the flesh of the mango. Use the same knife to cut the flesh of the mango, just remove the seeds. Perform the same movement as when peeling a mango: Bring the blade from the top to the tail of the mango and cut the flesh off.
   • When the knife doesn't cut any more of the mango meat, you've reached the seed.
   • Now you can enjoy the mango.
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Advice

• Make sure the mango is ripe. Ripe mangoes will not be too stiff and a bit soft. You can gently press the mango to see if it's ripe or not.
• Caution: The mango is very slippery!
• Ripe mangoes will be very fragrant. The mango will also "sink" a little when you press lightly on the peel.

What you need

• Serrated knife
• Pruning knives
• Chopping board
• Ripe mango
• Vegetable knife
• Fork holding corn