00:00:02avocados people love them loads of
00:00:05people buy them and did you know the
00:00:06biggest and most common reason for a cut
00:00:08across the palm is avocados so you might
00:00:11as well know how to do it properly
00:00:12safely and quickly
00:00:14so get your avocado right you want to go
00:00:16straight smack bang in the middle get a
00:00:18sharp knife carefully and slowly and
00:00:21smoothly cut through find the stone in
00:00:24the middle then move out and just rock
00:00:27it around never applying never ever
00:00:30applying too much pressure that’s one of
00:00:32the reasons that if you have a blunt
00:00:33knife it’s even more dangerous than the
00:00:35sharp knife because you have to really
00:00:36really push it and then when it goes off
00:00:38with the old fingers so we’re just
00:00:41moving it around like that once you’ve
00:00:43done that it will just click out like
00:00:45that and there you go beautiful avocado
00:00:48if it doesn’t click out that it ain’t
00:00:50right when you shouldn’t have bought it
00:00:52in the first place if you’re ever Kardos
00:00:54not ripe just pop it in a brown paper
00:00:55bag of a banana
00:00:56it’ll be good in a day and a half no
00:00:58worries at all and then a lot of people
00:01:01kind of get geeky and try and sort of
00:01:02you know peel the avocado like this
00:01:05nothing wrong with that you can use like
00:01:07a little knife to do it or just peel it
00:01:09off like that as you can see it’s fairly
00:01:10fiddly you can do it slightly cleaner
00:01:12using a knife like this but I want to
00:01:15give you an alternative that I think’s
00:01:16much easier and less stress and sort of
00:01:18less bitty so let me just finish this so
00:01:21you can see what I’ve done so that’s
00:01:22what we want to achieve a peeled piece
00:01:24of avocado we’re going to get rid of
00:01:26your skin and stuff here and then while
00:01:29we’re talking about it the avocado stone
00:01:32this is where the cuts happen guys
00:01:34because people put them in their hand
00:01:36and if they’re not experienced you know
00:01:38they see chefs just flick it which is
00:01:41what I do and then twist it which is
00:01:43what I do and it comes out right you
00:01:45shouldn’t do that unless you’re an
00:01:47advanced cook you put the avocado down
00:01:49like that you get hands all the way away
00:01:51from it you just tap it like that then
00:01:53you twist it out and then at no point
00:01:55does your hand and the knife get
00:01:57anywhere near each other but basically
00:01:58the cuts happen when that happens not
00:02:00pretty so peeling it nice and quickly
00:02:04instead of trying to peel it with your
00:02:05knife or your fingers just get a nice
00:02:07big spoon like this in here and just rub
00:02:10it around the perimeter of the skin
00:02:14about that and you can get the whole lot
00:02:16out in one by that which is dead easy
00:02:19look that’s completely clean in there
00:02:21the other way to do it
00:02:22now just to prepare another one nice and
00:02:24quickly knife in find the stone roll it
00:02:28around find other end twist it
00:02:30put your stone down tap it twist it out
00:02:33it comes now another way to do it which
00:02:35i think is kind of cute
00:02:36is instead of doing one whole half just
00:02:39get a teaspoon or this spoon and do
00:02:41lovely little kind of scoop outs and
00:02:45that for a salad
00:02:46looks dead cute you’ve got a nice sort
00:02:49of wave to it you can see that lovely
00:02:50wave you get to it which is nice sort of
00:02:51shapes and again it’s dead quick and you
00:02:57don’t have to be uptight to do it so
00:02:58there you go I’m now exactly an avocado
00:03:00but your minds will do it properly and
00:03:01safely and also make it look nice if you
00:03:04want a bit be a bit 1980s that’s one of
00:03:06my first jobs as a chef you can
00:03:08basically get that piece of avocado
00:03:10sliced not quite to the end I never do
00:03:14this by the way but I can’t stop myself
00:03:15from doing it and just slice all the way
00:03:17down like that
00:03:18and when you’ve done it you go like that
00:03:20and you have a nice little fan our takes
00:03:23me back to the 80s rock and roll
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