There are some quick food cutting tips that will help you save time in the cooking process.
1. How to cut avocado
In addition to the common way of cutting avocados, which is cutting a vertical circle touching the seed, then rotating half to separate the seed and extract the fruit, this is also a quick and efficient method.
With this method, you don’t need to touch the seed, just cut deep into
the fruit and flip the skin up to easily peel off the avocado skin!
2. How to dice spring onions
Many people often complain about how cutting spring onions can cause stinging and watery eyes. That’s because they don’t know the correct way. The key point here is to keep the root of the onion. First, cut off the bottom part of the onion, then cut it in half lengthwise, peel the onion and still retain the root.
Place the onion facing down on the cutting board, hold it firmly with your hand, and use a sharp knife to cut parallel lines on the surface of the board, then cut parallel vertical lines on the surface of the onion. Finally, just cut the perpendicular lines and you have finely diced spring onions without causing stinging.
3. How to cut seedless lime
Unlike regular limes with seeds, you can cut the lime horizontally and simply squeeze out the juice. Regarding seedless limes, if you cut them horizontally, you will get very little juice even though the lime looks very juicy. The experience is to cut the lime into slices along the fruit and squeeze the juice from these slices. Twisting the core of the lime will extract a considerable amount of lime juice.
4. How to cut and separate pomegranate seeds
Pomegranates are fruits that contain a lot of good vitamins for the body, but many people hesitate to eat pomegranates because it is difficult and time-consuming to separate the seeds! In fact, the things you need to do are very simple: use the pointed tip of a knife to scoop out the bottom part of the pomegranate, then cut off a section to create a flat surface.
Now just cut about 5 equally spaced lines along the pomegranate and use your hand to snap it forcefully, the pomegranate will be separated, revealing the seeds inside, ready to eat or extract the juice which is both great.
5. How to slice a cake
Instead of cutting the corners of the cake, which will expose 2 sides and easily dry out when stored in the refrigerator, try cutting the cake horizontally like this!
If you can’t eat the whole cake, you can place a slice of sandwich bread on top of the unfinished slice to prevent the cake from drying out when you enjoy it next time.