I relized this might be useful on its own, so I yanked it out of a previous post…
They’re shaped kind of like flattened footballs, and they have a big gnarly seed in the middle shaped roughly like the mango itself.
To cut a mango, you should hold it stem-end-up on your cutting board. Using a nice, sharp knife, cut the two flat sides off, leaving a sort of mango hockey puck behind.
Take each mango hemisphere (ignore the puck for a moment) and, using your knife, score a grid into the fruit.
Cut into the fruit deeply, but don’t pierce the skin. It won’t work, and you’ll cut yourself.
Turn the mango slice inside out and the sections pop out. Use the back of your thumb to peel them off of the skin.
Now, take the mango hockey puck, and slice the long sides off. You’ll have to experiment with where to slice. Too close to the stem and you’ll hit seed.
Slice off the two sides. They can easily be peeled from the skin and chopped up.
This will leave you with a mango brick with a stem on one end and a big gnarly seed in the middle. Take this to the kitchen sink and gnaw on it greedily. It is your reward for a job well done.
(be sure to wash the sticky mango juice off your chin. you barbarian.)
