It's safe, easy, and prevents you from wasting a single slice of your precious avocado. 🥑
Instead, you’ll keep the two pieces together, turn the whole avocado on its side, and create another cut along the equator. You should end up with four sections of the fruit. Next, you’ll do the twist. Grabbing the avocado along the sides, gently twist the fruit to dislodge it from the pit—and you magically end up with four equal pieces. Depending on how ripe your avocado is, you can then easily remove the peel with your fingers before popping out and discarding the pit with your fingers .
All to say: After much deliberation and testing, we can confidently affirm that this avocado-cutting hack might just be our favorite yet. For starters, it eliminates the threat of injury from removing the pit with a knife: As you twist the four pieces apart, the pit becomes exposed and easily pluckable without damaging the flesh of your handMeanwhile, the carefully positioned cuts help ensure that your avocado's delicate insides are minimally handled or squished while cutting.
It’s safe to say that we’re big fans of this simple way to cut an avocado, which can also be applied to other fruits with large pits like peaches, nectarines, or plums. And while it seems just as easy as the good ol’ way you’ve cut avocados in the past, this quartered method helps remove the pit more safely and keeps the flesh intact, too. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at the difference an extra cut can make in the final result.