{"id":651,"date":"2012-07-10T23:43:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2013-10-03T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T21:13:23","slug":"how-to-easily-peeleat-a-mexican-mango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"How to easily peel\/eat a Mexican Mango"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center   \" alt=\"IMAG1386\" src=\"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/mango\/IMAG1386.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peeled Mango ready to eat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-710\" style=\"width: 112px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-710    \" title=\"original\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/original.jpg\" width=\"112\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/original.jpg 485w, https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/original-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/original-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/original-37x37.jpg 37w, https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/original-128x128.jpg 128w, https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/original-184x184.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OXO Mango Pitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eating a mango always seems to be messy business. They are very tasty, but they have a huge seed in the middle, and they are very juicy. I have tried mango pitters before, but if your mango is too ripe, it will just get squashed. Even if you do pit the seed out, you still have mango juice all over the place now.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up I would watch my mom cut mangoes. She would do what I refer to as the &#8220;flower technique,&#8221; or inversion technique.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/soupbelly.com\/2009\/05\/21\/thai-sticky-coconut-rice-with-mango\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Mango Flower\/Inversion\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/soupbelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dsc_0030.jpg\" width=\"151\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flower\/Inversion Technique for eating Mangoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She slices the Mango vertically, (lateral to each side of the seed). Then she will slice cross hatches in the mango. Then invert the mango, pushing on the skin of the mango. It makes eating the meat of the mango easier. [image to the left obtained via a google search which led me to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/soupbelly.com\/2009\/05\/21\/thai-sticky-coconut-rice-with-mango\/\">http:\/\/soupbelly.com\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>*disclaimer, I have not tried this on the big mangoes, just the mini Mexican Atulfo Mangoes*<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I never seen these mini mangoes before until I went to Beijing, China. Odd thing is once I came back from China, I noticed that we should the mini mangoes here in Ohio. Eitherway, I saw someone there eating what seemed to be an oddly shaped banana, but on closer examination, this lady was eating a mango. She had peeled the skin off like a banana. Interestingly it works well with these Mini Mangoes, and is better if the mango is ripe. So here is my take on peeling mangoes. The benefits are great: 1. you dont waste any of the mango, 2. it is less laborious to peel and eat a mango. Unfortunately it does not solve the problem of the mess after.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"shutterset_\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/mango\/IMAG1383.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" alt=\"IMAG1383\" src=\"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/mango\/thumbs\/thumbs_IMAG1383.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Step: 1. Cut the mango skin superficially at 90 deg angles all the way down. Makes it easier to peel (without the skin breaking off mid peel)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"shutterset_\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/mango\/IMAG1385.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left\" alt=\"IMAG1385\" src=\"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/mango\/thumbs\/thumbs_IMAG1385.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Step 2. Peel the mango gently.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"shutterset_\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/mango\/IMAG1388.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left\" alt=\"IMAG1388\" src=\"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/mango\/thumbs\/thumbs_IMAG1388.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Step 3. Eat the mango.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously if you are out and about, and do not happen to carry knives with you, you can easily enough just peel the mango without cutting. This is just a tad messier, but better than not eating a mango at all.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How to grow a mango from seed\" href=\"https:\/\/haughtypenguin.com\/?p=653\">on to sprouting and growing a mango tree from a seed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating a mango always seems to be messy business. They are very tasty, but they have a huge seed in the middle, and they are very juicy. I have tried mango pitters before, but if your mango is too ripe, it will just get squashed. 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