Kitchen Tricks: How to Cut and Save an Avocado [Video]

Ever take the time to carefully dice an avocado for a salad or guacamole, only to have it end up in awkward chunks, or going brown before you get a chance to put it on the table? With these easy tricks, you’ll be able to not only get nice, evenly diced avocado, but will be able to store it, fresh and green, for later use! 

Thanks to Bar Lilly and The Broker Inn

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Video Transcript:

I’m Chris Tavano for Tundra Restaurant Supply, and we’re here in the kitchen of Bar Lilly at The Broker Inn, in Boulder, Colorado. Next knife know-how video we’re going to do is to teach you how to properly cut and pit and avocado and actually store them without oxidizing and turning brown. 

First things first, which I already did, is you might want to take out the stem and the sticker, as you don’t want that falling in your food. Be safe and put it right on the cutting board, get your knife vertical and you’re going to press down on the back of it until you can feel the nut, and then you just spin it right around that nut. It should slide open just like that. A lot of people take their pit out with the blade. If it’s too ripe, you’re knife is going to go right through that pit. For now, I’m just going to do it on the side of the cutting board.

Save your pit because that was going to help store your avocado for later. From here, we just make nice little slits on the bias with the tip of your knife. You just want to feel the skin so it’s the stopping point for the tip of blade. You have a nice biased cut all the way around like that. Get a spoon, nice little bowl, give it a squeeze on all sides to loosen up those little diamonds that we made and everything should just slide right out. A lot of times we want to store this and we notice that the avocado turns brown.

Basically what’s happening is it’s oxidizing. One, never store in a metal bowl, metal helps vegetables oxidize. Two, if you store the pit with it, it helps eliminate those gases. Three, would be a little bit acidity, so you can get a little wedge of lemon juice and just squirt. The acidity helps stop the oxidization.

You want to get a nice piece of plastic wrap, get everything air tight. The less oxygen around the avocado, the less it’s going to oxidize itself.

From there, that’s a good way to store your avocado for a good day without it browning very much around the edges. That’s another episode of knife know how kitchen efficiency tricks. Here’s to a better mise en place. 

 

About Nathan Combs

By day: Videographer for Tundra Restaurant Supply. By different time of day: Hiking, biking, skiing and hammock enthusiast. And by night... do whatever I want. No job.

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