The Easiest Way To Peel A Mango: Try This Brilliant Hack

Eating mangoes can make you feel like you're on a beach somewhere while you're just in your kitchen. The sweet and sour tropical fruit may be very tasty, but it can be messy and a hassle to cut apart. One great way to separate the flesh from the skin without leaving the countertop in disarray is by cutting the mango in thick slices and sliding each down against the edge of a glass. That way, the juicy fruit flesh peels away from the skin and lands directly into the chalice without making a mess. This quick and simple peeling hack will have you slurping on the fresh crop in no time. 

The advantage of the glass method is that most of the juicy messiness ends up in the glass, and you can simply discard the peels. However, if you want to dice the mango, there's another popular mango hack. This has the eater trimming the opposite sides of the fuzzy mango seed to produce three sections. Cut off the fruit around the area that holds the large flat seed. However, for the other two parts, make grid-like cuts into the flesh without scoring the skin, then invert the bowl-shaped halves so that the cubes pop out. You can scoop off the cubes into a bowl or eat the mango straight off the inverted peel. We also have a few more mango-peeling tricks that you should scan before heading to the grocery store.

When finding the best mangoes to eat, check ripeness to ensure that its peeling will remain painless. Fruit that isn't quite right yet will have a tough exterior and will taste tart and sour. Produce that has reached maturity will have soft skin, and will taste much sweeter. When it's time to slice, the flesh will slip off the peel easily. Determine the best fruit to munch on by placing it in your hands to feel its firmness.

If it's too hard, then put it back on the grocery store shelf. Once you gently squeeze it, it should give a little without being too pulpy or spongy. There should almost be no green tint on the peel and if the fruit gives off a fresh sweet smell, it's ready to eat. At home, you can grab a metal spoon and rub the circular part on the skin, massaging it to help separate the fibers. This aids in prying the mango's flesh from the peel easily.