Mano de Agucate. Advocado hand
For those of you Canucks and Gringos there is a way to remove the pit from the aguacate with out stabing your hand!
Take the agucate on your hand, the pointy end normaly has the little thingy where the fuit hung on the tree, hold the advocado so that the thingy is in the same direction as the little thumb (or big thumb) now take a knife, the sharper the better and hold the knife as if you were going to cut bread or saw the aguacate and start next to the thingy and cut down turning the aguacare so that the cut is North to South and then South to North, you will feel the knife agains the pit, a perfect cut starts and ends at the same point.
Now place the knife down and hold the two halfs one on each hand and gently twist in opposite directions, you should end with one half with no pit and the other half with the pit.
Take the half with the pit on one hand and the knife on the other hand, hold the knife the same way as you did while cutting the agucate, pointy end towards the thingy and holding the knife give the pit a choping blow, it does take a little force and good aim, once the knife has landed and the pit and knife move together twist both to relrase the pit.
DO NOT try to STAB the pit with the pointy end of the knife, that is how you end with mano de agucate "advocado hand" known to the Emergency personel and doctors that have to patch the stab on your had when the pointy sharp knife glanced of the side of the pit and agucates being soft your had is a good target, if this method is too intimidating use a cutting board to slice the aguacate, again North to South and hold the aguacate and chop the pit do not stab.
Enjoy the agucates, the guacamole, the pico de gallo etc.
The original name of the agucate in Nahuatl is ajuacatl and tomato is tomatl and peanuts are called cacahuatl, chocolate is xocolatl.
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