How to cut avocado safely?
Was watching jamie oliver talk about avocados.
He mentioned that most people cut their hand trying to take the seed out of avocados because people use the knife and twist method. Not that it matters, but personally I would believe that, except that I don't think its people mostly cutting their hand from taking the seed out with the knife & twist method. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure some people have cut themselves that way. But I'm thinking the most dangerous part is actually from dicing the avocado inside of the skin and that is probably where most of the accidents happen.
The skin is quite thick on the avocado. It gives you an impression its very hard and hard to cut through or penetrate. So you might hold the avocado in the palm of your hand and start dicing them. Then the knife cuts through the skin and cut yourself. I think most people would cut themselves that way most? Not that it matters but I think that part he said was not accurate.
I bring it up because thats when I am most scared of cutting myself when handling avocados. Taking the seed out with the knife & twist part never scared me. Its actually dicing the avocado with the skin on that scares me.
With that said, it leads me to ask how you guys do it? My current method is to hold the avocado halves by the two ends only with a few fingers, leaving the rest of the avocado fully unsupported in the air. Then I dice as usual so that even if the knife cuts through the skin of the avocado, its not cutting into my palms next.
He mentioned that most people cut their hand trying to take the seed out of avocados because people use the knife and twist method. Not that it matters, but personally I would believe that, except that I don't think its people mostly cutting their hand from taking the seed out with the knife & twist method. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure some people have cut themselves that way. But I'm thinking the most dangerous part is actually from dicing the avocado inside of the skin and that is probably where most of the accidents happen.
The skin is quite thick on the avocado. It gives you an impression its very hard and hard to cut through or penetrate. So you might hold the avocado in the palm of your hand and start dicing them. Then the knife cuts through the skin and cut yourself. I think most people would cut themselves that way most? Not that it matters but I think that part he said was not accurate.
I bring it up because thats when I am most scared of cutting myself when handling avocados. Taking the seed out with the knife & twist part never scared me. Its actually dicing the avocado with the skin on that scares me.
With that said, it leads me to ask how you guys do it? My current method is to hold the avocado halves by the two ends only with a few fingers, leaving the rest of the avocado fully unsupported in the air. Then I dice as usual so that even if the knife cuts through the skin of the avocado, its not cutting into my palms next.