Kindly explain mangoes

[Twiglett]

how do you get the fruit out

can you slit them in half, twist and separate or is that not possible

do you slice and then skin?

what's it all about?

You slice to the side of the stone, then you can score the fruit through in a grid, turn the skin inside out and the cubes just slice off easily. Damn this is hard to write down.....

pmsl at this

I was going to start this thread. They're a PITA, aren't they? They have a sort of flat oval stone - I think you're supposed to look at the shape of the mango and somehow "intuit" which direction to cut. I usually get it wildly wrong and end up with juice everywhere, a few sorry shreds of fruit in the bowl and the majority in the bin. DH makes rude comments when he sees me buying mangoes

Peel with potato peeler.
Cut chunks off vertically
Then attack the stone.
Best done in private however.

ROFL at this!

I've been wondering the same for years but thought I'd be laughed it for asking

thanks

ok how do you know where the side of the stone is from a whole fruit then?

You don't.

Agree, Greensleeves (you've tried this, haven't you!!??) but it adds to the fun no end, twiglett!!!!

It seems that some mangoes cut beautifully when you follow tamum's method, but other times the fruit is a bit less firm or more 'stringy' in texture and then you wonder why you bothered in the first place..........fantastic entertainment for the rest of the household so long as they aren't expecting to actually EAT much of it!

Lakeland have a special mango cuting tool in their latest brochure i noticed as my DH is mad on kitchen gadgets its lined up for his xams present

mmmmmmm lakeland

Eat them in the bath... less messy.

Right OK. Here's an easy way to do it. Slice the cheeks off the mango. So put the mango on a board on its thin side iyswim. Insert knife tip, from the middle out, randomly until you no longer hit the stone. slice down so you have a cheek of fruit with skin still attached. With cheek fruit facing up the way, cut criss-cross with knife without piercing skin. Then invert the cheek so you have a kind of hedge hog looking thing. Then slice off the chunks. Repeat.

Honestly. It does work brilliantly everytime.

Yes I agree with Deux, however, Twiglett, you can slit round through the middle and make sure you slit all the way in thill oyu hit the stone, and then twist gently, it will come off. Then you use a spoon....and then suck the half of stone and use spoon again...(the ladylike way of eating it!)

at sucking being the 'ladylike' way of doing anything

Well.....ok...I just read it again...think I meant using the spoon was ladylike!!!

ROFL at this thread! I always used to eat mangoes in the bath, split them into thirds lengthwise iyswim (either side of the stone) and just gnaw the flesh from the skin; enjoying the sensation of juice dripping down my body.

I was therefore astounded one day at work when a colleague (the wife of a famous cricketer) produced a mango ... I really wondered what she was about to do!
It was a revelation to me that there was a polite way to do it in public

roisin, you are filthy!!

Does fruit juice make your skin smooth, roisin? ROFL

I am the queen of mango cutting as DD (11 months) eats at least three a week!
Blimming things, I brought one on the off chance when she was about 7 months and she's been eating them since.

My mum and I used to debate whose turn it was to suck the stone. Dad kept well out of it - he's far too neat an eater to get involved in such orgiastic non-manners. Only drawback with sucking the stone is that you then have to go and floss the fibres out!

I'm with roisin on this one - the best way I ever ate a mango was sitting in the sea on a Mediterranean beach. Mmmmmmm.

I'm very sentimental about mangoes. They were my dad's favourite fruit.

For my parents' 40th wedding anniversary last month I bought them an Oxfam Unwrapped share in a mango plantation! They were delighted.

What a lovely present roisin.

{{{hugs for you here too}}}

In Tesco today, I noticed they had tear off instructions on how to prepare fruit like mangoes and papaya. Last week they had such an exotic looking fruit I couldn't decide whether it was supposed to be eaten or used as a decoration - wasn't there today and don't know what it was called