BTW, did you notice that Amazon seems to have lowered the free shipping threshold to $25? A few months ago it was $49 and then they lowered it to $35 to compete with Walmart but I hadn’t heard about the drop to $25.
Cutting something held in your hand with a sharp knife is risky? Who knew? Though not as much as with a not-properly-sharpened one. Those still cut through living flesh just fine, after they bounce or slip on your produce.
But really, folks, maybe this just me being a person who used to have avocado trees in the back yard, but …people, it’s an avocado, it is not the Black Knight, you don’t have to go at it like The Bride vs the Crazy 88, just slice in a calm and considered manner, paying attention. And what’s with that $&%#* knifethrowing-school-dropout method of stabbing the pit??? An appropriately ripe avocado should have the pit come out with minimal pressure if you properly sliced it in half. Just press the blade to it putting the pressure away from yourself. So what if the pit flies off and lands on the floor, you’re not going to eat that. Or even, use your fingernails!
If you do NOT need perfect halves, howeber, as in you are goung to chop it or mash it or slice it thin, then daggummit, just slice it in wedges from around the pit and once more than half of it is exposed, GRAB it.
Well, THIS was predictable.
I happened to be cutting and de-pitting a ripe avocado for dinner tonight, and was holding a ten-inch chef’s knife in my right hand after slicing other salad ingredients, so I went ahead and went at it. Poked myself good in the meaty part of my left hand.
Didn’t sever any nerves or tendons, or even bleed, but gave myself a good Ouchie. Serves me right for starting this stupid thread.
I apologize for laughing.
…do I get to have sex with Meryl Streep, at least?
No,but non-Academy award winning Merle Schtepp is availabe.
Not since 1979.
Great. So this is the Pit thread that doesn’t have any recipes in it? Fine. Hillary’s a lesbian from outer space. When I make avocado-corn soup, do I heat everything together, then chill it, or do I make a creamed corn and chile soup, let it cool, and then stir in the avocado?
Slotted screwdrivers. Evil things. Followed closely by a Philips as they seem to strip so easily. I made is a practice to only buy Robinson screws, if at all possible. No slip and seldom strip.
You misspelled Shtupp.
A. She died.
B. A fact few are familiar with.
Dumbfuck. Get a bagel guillotine and a suitably-sized sharp knife, and learn how to use it… Dumbfuck.
Lots of what I know about cooking, some from my grandma, lots from TV, but much from an engineer’s brain, which requires an ability to form procedures, and the pitfalls at each step. Before coming up with anything you need to visualize every step, and every stupid step Mohammed in assembly will fuck up, with documentation of why he’d fuck it up to wave in his face. Twenty years ago he suggested I would benefit from fasting for Ramadan. I buried him 19 years ago.
Er…yeah, learn your tools, and your target. Sharp paring knife to pierce the skin. Big knife to follow and cut the flesh in twain. Toss the pit to some vegans who will deepfry it or something. A little salt or spice on the meat and you will forget why you bought another 11 of them. Okay, save another for you and tell the co-op, “They only had ten.”
I believe she got caught in a celluloid jam.
As for Julia Child, I went to medical school in Boston and I met a LOT of ER doctors who stitched up her various hand injuries. The lady was NOT good with a knife. (Still love her, though)
Why are you asking us? You’re the – well, you know…
Where’s the mystery in a twelve-sided dice after People have heard of Dungeons & Dragons?
I never thought about it before this Topic made the “News” (that is, GMX front page which is one serious Event and two irrelevant/ funny things), because I don’t like avocadoes, so I don’t eat them - but I do have enough experience with other pits to not try to use a knife on a smooth hard surface, when there’s a teaspoon in my drawer that would probably serve just as well to get a round pit out.
Or, if I would buy an unfamiliar fruit, I’d ask the salesperson in the veggie section. In any non-cheap Supermarket, salespersons should know about their section.
The only reason to open an oyster is to see if there’s a pearl inside.* Just go ahead and buy some pearls and let someone else take the risks.
*(it’s not like there’s anything in there made of food.)
Mentioned that to Wife, who laughed about seeing her cut herself all the time. I had forgotten the first seasons were live.
This isn’t very ranty, and is sorta food oriented… let’s try it in Cafe Society.
So, that SNL sketch with Dan Akroyd where she bleeds to death so hilariously was based on an actual thing? Who gnu?
I’ve seen the tapes and, yeah, but less blood.