[Sca-cooks] Helpful Hint from Whomever #987

[Judith Epstein]

That's true. When the mango is half-peeled and I need to turn it over  
to hold the 'naked' side and peel the 'clothed' side, I grab a paper  
towel or cloth that doesn't shed much lint, and use that to hold the  
slippery mango. Then rinse the mango. Added benefit: it decreases  
still further the chance of bruising the delicate meat of the fruit.

On Aug 2, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

>  The problem with mangoes, in my experience, especially really ripe  
> ones, is that they're really slippery as you peel them; almost like  
> ice, in that gravity alone is enough to produce a sort of  
> frictionless lubricating fluid (a.k.a. juice) between two solid  
> objects. I have yet to run across the mango whose inertial mass is  
> sufficient to offset displacement by even the sharpest knife.