what is the best and safest way to peel and cut mangos.?

Question

my daughter and i always eat them by hand. for now i just cut the sides and we eat till we hit the skin and then the rest to the seed. my daughter loves mango and would love to pack mango for her morning snack for back to school. she can't really eat it the way she eats it at home, to messy, lol. thanks. also, if you need a special kind of utensils, please name them. thanks

Answer 1

Mangos are so good, yet so hard to eat! There are a lot of "how to cut a mango" websites. Basically the idea is "cut big hunks of mango off the seed" then "cut in a grid pattern" and fillet off the skin. When you're done with that, go back at the seed to get any mango that's left. (see source 1)

I recommend using the cubes for your daughter's lunch and eating the mango on the seed right away. Because mango is delicate, you might plan on putting it in a hard container - like Gladware.

Despite only having one function, mango splitters are not effective. They are either so dull that they make the mango into a mashed, unusable orange blob OR they are so sharp that you're gonna hurt yourself if you look at it wrong (and the sharp ones still don't work very well, imho).

Answer 2

Cut the mango in 1/2 as close to the pit on either side. Score it into squares, up to, but not through the skin. Now "pop" the skin inside out and the squares will pop up. Now just cut them off against the skin. There will still be a little mango on the sides; just peel the skin off and cut from the pit.

Answer 3

I just cut each side off w/ a knife, passing close to the pit, then score the fruit, then turn the halves "inside-out" so the cut fruit stands up. Then slice it off the skin.

But if you want "safe"... buy one of those mango corers. It does the coring and slicing for you, and you can either peel the skin off of each slice, or peel before you core/cut it.

Answer 4

cut horizontally around the fruit until reaching the beginning.
Twist, yank the two halves apart. Score up to, but not thorough the skin, in a grid-like pattern. Invert section of skin and knock off the pieces.
hope that makes sense on your end