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Old 22-09-2016, 16:25
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Ok, I have looked at how to video's and I would like to know how you get one peeled and de stoned without the slippery suckers sliding out of my hands the minute it is cut.
Maybe they were overripe but I have never prepared a fresh one, did 3 today and let's say I was not in the best of moods when I had finished, one even landed out of my hands, off the chopping board and on to the floor. I don't have good grip and that didn't help.

Hints and tips on preparing them please? Should I have brought hard as bullet ones? These was slightly overripe, could that be why I had problems?
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Old 22-09-2016, 16:37
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Once peeled, just use a fork or skewer in your left hand to hold it in place while you slice it up with your right. (Or other way around).
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Old 22-09-2016, 16:58
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There was an episode of Poirot where David Suchet gave a demonstration of how to peel and seed a mango at table. It was mighty impressive. You sliced the skin and then cut around the seed to loosen it. Then folded the skin back and voila!

Me, I usually cut down to the seed and peel the slices after.
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Old 22-09-2016, 17:14
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I buy them already peeled and de-stoned in Sainsbury's
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Old 22-09-2016, 17:43
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Hard to explain but I do a thing where you slice around the stone to give you bits that still have skin on. You can then slice down to the skin to give a chess board effect, you then fold it inside out and the cubes pop out for you to easily trim off. I know I've explained that terribly.
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Old 22-09-2016, 17:48
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Hard to explain but I do a thing where you slice around the stone to give you bits that still have skin on. You can then slice down to the skin to give a chess board effect, you then fold it inside out and the cubes pop out for you to easily trim off. I know I've explained that terribly.
This is how I do it - yes it is hard to explain!

http://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes...e_a_mango.html

If the mango is over-ripe, it doesn't work as well.

I also peel the skin off the stone at the end and eat the remaining flesh off the stone - very messy!
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Old 23-09-2016, 20:55
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If it's overripe, the best solution is to eat it in the bath.
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Old 23-09-2016, 23:34
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I don't peel it........I slice each side lengthways along the side of the stone........then cut each of those halves into slices with the skin still on then nibble it like a melon slice down to the skin

the middle bit still has the stone in........it's easy to peel back the skin from that and just nibble at it down to the stone
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Old 24-09-2016, 12:12
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I buy it ready prepared because I make a right mess of it.
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Old 24-09-2016, 14:05
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Hard to explain but I do a thing where you slice around the stone to give you bits that still have skin on. You can then slice down to the skin to give a chess board effect, you then fold it inside out and the cubes pop out for you to easily trim off. I know I've explained that terribly.
Yes, that's how I do it too. Mango stones are notorious buggers to get out, what I usually do is take the two sides off as near to the stone as I can get, then peel the middle bit and chomp on it myself, not very elegantly I will admit.
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