DH Cuts Tomatoes Vertically -AIBU To Be Outraged

[LochinverSwimmingPool]

Every. Single. Morning.

Why can't he cut them horizontally, like a normal person?

Bah.

You are wrong. He and the rest of us are right...

How do you cut a tomato horizontally?

I've never seen anyone cut them horizontally

I agree with the op.

My DM cuts bread horizontally but that’s a whole different thread.

For salads, vertically, for grilling horizontally

what?
you cut tomatos around the 'equator'?
that's all wrong.

YABU. Cutting them vertically is the way God intended. Sorry to be the one to break it to you, OP.

@Ekofisk

How do you cut a tomato horizontally?

Rotate it 90 degrees then cut it vertically?

I actually do both. Vertically if I'm slicing them, but I'd cut them in half horizontally if I'm grilling them because they don't wobble as much.

I cut baby plum tomatoes lengthways (to add another element!).

Never seen anyone cut tomatoes horizontally.

Eh? Is there another way??

I see. OP is referring to the tomato stalk position?

WTF?

I do not know anyone who cuts tomatoes vertically. Well - other than DH.

You are all VVVU.

You are all wrong.

You cut around the equator/ horizontally for frying / grilling / stuffing.

And vertically for salads. It’s obvious.

Of course you cut them vertically and take out the stalky bit, if you do it horizontally then one side has all the stalky bit.

@Ekofisk

I see. OP is referring to the tomato stalk position?

Yes.

If one cuts a tomato horizontally, the nasty bit where the stalk was remains in its own half, and I can offload it on to DH's plate, leaving the nice half without the stalk for myself.

@eosmum

Of course you cut them vertically and take out the stalky bit, if you do it horizontally then one side has all the stalky bit.

EXACTLY my point. Thank heavens for some sanity on here.

You mean he cuts them top to bottom? Do you turn them on their side to cut them (I have a hangover - trying to imagine is too hard).

I do the same as you IM0GEN. Apart from for stuffing — I just take a little 'lid' off, rather than halving them.

Err, if you cut your tomato in half vertically you will still have two halves for grilling?!

Yes as IM0GEN says.
You are the wrong 'un OP

@IM0GEN

You are all wrong.

You cut around the equator/ horizontally for frying / grilling / stuffing.

And vertically for salads. It’s obvious.

Why vertically for salads, though?

My mum always cut them vertically so that’s how I did it, then I got a job preparing salad for a sandwich bar and was taught to cut them horizontally.

They definitely look better cut horizontally and I can’t do it any other way now.

YABVU
Also you have tomatoes for breakfast every day?!

If you cut a tomato horizontally then every slice has the stalk going through the middle

You're wrong and your DH is right OP