How to Cut an Avocado

A super easy way to cut an avocado. Fast and gets all of it out! Learned this at a Mexican restaurant and used it ever since!

Have you wondered how to cut an avocado? I learned this method while working at a Mexican restaurant in our town. Before that I just cut different ways attempting to do the best I could. Now, cutting an avocado is something I could do in my sleep and I actually enjoy doing it and want to make guacamole all the time.

You take your ripe avocado and slice it all the way around the pit and twist it apart so it looks like this:

A super easy way to cut an avocado. Fast and gets all of it out! Learned this at a Mexican restaurant and used it ever since!

Next, take your knife and carefully hit the pit with part of the blade closer to the handle. Twist the knife while holding the avocado half in the palm of your other hand and the pit will pop out.

A super easy way to cut an avocado. Fast and gets all of it out! Learned this at a Mexican restaurant and used it ever since!

Now, take the knife and make diagonal cuts down and across.

A super easy way to cut an avocado. Fast and gets all of it out! Learned this at a Mexican restaurant and used it ever since!

Finally, take a spoon and slide it in around the skin and let the avocado pieces fall into a bowl.

A super easy way to cut an avocado. Fast and gets all of it out! Learned this at a Mexican restaurant and used it ever since!

If you want to take the avocado out in a complete half, simply don’t make the diagonal slices and simply use the spoon to carefully remove and then slice on a cutting board in your desired shape.

This method is super easy and makes your homemade guacamole come together in minutes!

What’s your favorite way to cut an avocado?

(Here’s my favorite guacamole recipe!)

Homemade Guacamole - easy and delicious! This recipe came from a Mexican restaurant and is so good.

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9 thoughts on “How to Cut an Avocado

  1. Julie

    Stopping by from GTTuesday Link up! Great tip! Sometimes I feel like I must always be doing things the wrong way! Thanks for getting me one step closer to getting it right! πŸ˜‰

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    1. Deanna Michaels Post author

      Thanks for stopping by! Lol, I’m sure there are other great (or better) ways to cut an avocado but this one works wonderful for me (and is so much better than the way I attempted before working at the Mexican restaurant).

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    1. Deanna Michaels Post author

      I’ll say it’s a sign! Guacamole must be made often. πŸ™‚ I agree, it’s such an easy and efficient way to cut them. I was in awe at how simple it was when I first learned.

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