What You’ll Need To Cut an Avocado

Perfect Ingredients and Equipment, One ingredient. The technique is everything!

• • A ripe avocado – Ripe avocados should yield to gentle pressure without leaving indentations or feeling mushy.
  • A sharp knife – An excellent, sharp paring knife will do the trick here.
  • A spoon – Choose a spoon that can easily scoop out the avocado pit.

How To Cut an Avocado Perfectly

Once you’ve done one, you’ll never look back!

• • Make sure the avocado is ripe! You can tell by very lightly squeezing either the two ends of the avocado or the entire avocado! If it feels soft enough to dent and doesn’t provide much resistance, it’s good to go! You can also usually tell by the color. The darker the green, the riper it is.
  • Using a sharp knife, cut into the avocado horizontally until you feel your knife hit the core. Then, rotate the avocado horizontally, cutting a relatively straight line from your original entry point all the way around until the end of your cut reaches where you started cutting. Sometimes the ends won’t match up perfectly, but do your best to make them as close as possible! Otherwise, when you go to pull the sides apart, the uneven connecting line will be visible.
  • Hold the avocado vertically, placing your hands on one of the newly cut halves. Use force to pull these two halves apart, effectively separating one of them from the seed/cure, leaving it fully connected to the other. 
  • While holding the avocado half that is still connected to the seed, use your knife to carefully rock back and forth into the seed, making a significant enough cut/impression that allows you to grip the seed via the blade. Now tilt your knife side to side, and use a small amount of force to pull the seed toward you. It should pop right out!
  • First, discard the seed! Be careful; they are super slippery! The two easiest methods are by either knocking the butt of the blade against a hard surface (I use a cutting board) and knocking the seed off or using a washcloth to pull the seed off the blade by hand. 
  • Time to cut! Using your knife, gently cut diagonal lines through the avocado’s flesh, ensuring to not break through the skin. You, of course, can pick the size of the slices, but I usually go for at least 7 or 8! If you’re looking for cubes, cut diagonally in the opposite direction of your original cuts. Voila!
  • Enjoy! Finally! Using a spoon, Scoop the flesh of the avocado out. You’ll be able to feel the spoon through the skin of the avocado and can make sure you’re entirely scraping it! When all goes as planned, you have the perfect sliced avocado with little to no mess and ready to eat ASAP!

How To Cut an Avocado PerfectlyTips and Tricks/FAQ

This can be a bit tricky the first time, but you’ll get the hang of it in no time!

• If you have a hard time removing the seed, use a spoon! Just scoop it out carefully with a small spoon, and you should be all set! Although you might lose a bit of the flesh along with it, it’s a guaranteed way to be safe and not have to wrestle with the seed needlessly.
• If you’re lucky – you won’t need to scoop! When your avocado is perfectly ripe, you can frequently squeeze the outside of one of the cut halves, and the cubes/slices will fall out on their own- completely separating from the skin without the need for scooping. This is when you know you’re having a good day! 
• Don’t get discouraged; practice makes perfect! Don’t get down on yourself if your slices/cubes come out looking kinda funky the first few times- it’s bound to happen! Just keep practicing, and eventually, you’ll forget how you even cut them in the first place. 

Ways to Serve Your Perfectly Cut Avocado

Are you kidding? The options are endless!

• • Avocado Toast
  • Baby Beet Green Salad
  • Chickpea Sandwich with Avocado, Fresh Dill, and Tahini 
  • Simple Pasta Salad 
  • Cherry Tomato Couscous Salad

Learning how to cut an avocado perfectly every time is super easy. If you give it a try, let me know how it turns out in the comments below.