Seems to me that I get a lot of waste when eating a mango or two. I basicly cut off the cheeks, now these are easy to comsume. Now how to deal with the rest, just seems to me there is a lot of juicey tender fruit left there and it seems awful hard to deal with ( and messy), any help on the matter may improve my eating habits.
cheers
blaze
goinsoon said
07:20 AM Feb 3, 2012
I guess you could try sitting in an empty bath in thr nuddy and eat it like an apple
Then just grab the pip & suck hell out of it then wash your hands, and face, and lap, and floor.
Cheers Neil
Thats about what I do but mine dont get cubed, just dig it ot with a spoon and eat. the pip bit is the problem and your discription is fitting
cheers
blaze
johnq said
10:25 AM Feb 3, 2012
An alternative method for a properly ripe string-less mango is to put a single cut around the mango in line with the seed in the middle. Cut to leading edge of the seed, it is one cut all around instead of the two usually done.
Then get a large shallow spoon, slide it in upside down on the pit one one side and gently work it to cut/ease the flesh away from the seed. That section falls off. Do the same with the other side. Use the spoon again to ease the flesh in one piece off one side at a time. Alternatively you could score each side into cubes as described by others.
There is very little flesh left on the seed or skin with this method, although the mango lover still gets to suck the seed.
sufil said
11:51 AM Feb 3, 2012
Just chuck em to the chooks I say!! No mess, no smell, no sticky fingers!!
jules47 said
03:14 PM Feb 3, 2012
I agree with you suful - can't stand them!
Ma said
03:26 PM Feb 3, 2012
You phillistines................. you don't know what's good for you, Mango in any which way or form are delicious.
Maybe it's got something to do with them being readily available up there and scarce as hen's teeth down here and when you can get them they cost an arm and a leg....................how much is freight do you suppose...........anyone got a tree........
Red Dog said
04:46 PM Feb 3, 2012
Just go for it thats what we do and it does help if you are outside.
Vic said
04:54 PM Feb 3, 2012
Slightly OT,
If you want to grow a Mango Tree from the seed, get some loose compost in a pot lightly covered in leaf litter, leave some of the "meat" on the seed when you eat the mango and lay it on it's side just under the surface of the top of the soil/compost/leaf litter so it can't be seen and water like you would any other plant, can't remember now how long it take to shoot, but it worked for me.
Don't dry the mango seed out, just straight from the mango. In the wild they grow from ripe mango's falling off the tree into leaf litter below.
_wombat_ said
05:17 PM Feb 3, 2012
Mrs W has a recipe for mango crush, I'll try to get a copy later
Ma said
06:03 PM Feb 3, 2012
That would be great Vic, if only they would grow on the South Coast NSW but I don't think it gets hot enough or something, maybe not enough humidity
Happywanderer said
06:36 PM Feb 3, 2012
When I cut the cheek I slightly curve the knife against the stone. It takes a bit more of the flesh that way and leaves very little to make a mess of your face when you suck on whats left.
Dougwe said
06:46 PM Feb 3, 2012
Tasty viddles though, any way they come.
Beth54 said
03:35 AM Feb 4, 2012
As a Qlder, I can tell you the best way to eat them is just eat them over the kitchen sink and wash face and arms when finished. None of this fiddling around cutting cheeks off...just get into it!
Ma said
03:39 AM Feb 4, 2012
My sentiments too Beth although I'm not a QLD'er that's how I like to eat them too
Dougwe said
03:48 AM Feb 4, 2012
Hi Vic, what's the flag in your new av, I can't quite work it out sorry
_wombat_ said
03:54 AM Feb 4, 2012
Dougwe wrote:
Hi Vic, what's the flag in your new av, I can't quite work it out sorry
Hutt River flag WA
goinsoon said
04:01 AM Feb 4, 2012
I think the best way is to eat them in the nuddy in an empty bathtub
Beth54 said
04:02 AM Feb 4, 2012
Or make mango ice cream! Yummo!
_wombat_ said
04:20 AM Feb 4, 2012
goinsoon wrote:
I think the best way is to eat them in the nuddy in an empty bathtub
you would not want to drop the nut would you
Cruising Granny said
04:26 AM Feb 4, 2012
I don't care, nor do I stand on ceremony. Just slurp until there's nothing left. The only ones I have trouble eating are the turpentine (common) mango, the original mango to which all the other stock is grafted. The Peach or Kensington Pride or Bowen, the Calypso or Fruit Salad, lemon, R2E3 is a huge mango the size of a small rock melon. There's strawberry, banana and about 20 other species of mango. Most can be tasted at least once at the Broome Mango Festival in November when the first ones ripen. They also grow mango trees as street trees. A huge tree with a massive root system and shade canopy. In Qld I see they prune them radically to allow easy picking. In the west they leave the trees huge so the bats can have the top fruit and leave the lower fruit for the pickers. Just lurv mango. Currently $1.20 ea at a fruit market at Salisbury, SA.
Beth54 said
07:31 PM Feb 4, 2012
I wouldn't bother with the turpentine CG when there is such a great variety around these days.
Seems to me that I get a lot of waste when eating a mango or two. I basicly cut off the cheeks, now these are easy to comsume. Now how to deal with the rest, just seems to me there is a lot of juicey tender fruit left there and it seems awful hard to deal with ( and messy), any help on the matter may improve my eating habits.
cheers
blaze
I guess you could try sitting in an empty bath in thr nuddy and eat it like an apple
Then just grab the pip & suck hell out of it then wash your hands, and face, and lap, and floor.
Cheers Neil
Thats about what I do but mine dont get cubed, just dig it ot with a spoon and eat. the pip bit is the problem and your discription is fitting
cheers
blaze
Then get a large shallow spoon, slide it in upside down on the pit one one side and gently work it to cut/ease the flesh away from the seed. That section falls off. Do the same with the other side. Use the spoon again to ease the flesh in one piece off one side at a time. Alternatively you could score each side into cubes as described by others.
There is very little flesh left on the seed or skin with this method, although the mango lover still gets to suck the seed.
You phillistines.................
you don't know what's good for you, Mango in any which way or form are delicious.
Maybe it's got something to do with them being readily available up there and scarce as hen's teeth down here and when you can get them they cost an arm and a leg....................how much is freight do you suppose...........anyone got a tree........
Just go for it thats what we do and it does help if you are outside.
Slightly OT,
If you want to grow a Mango Tree from the seed, get some loose compost in a pot lightly covered in leaf litter, leave some of the "meat" on the seed when you eat the mango and lay it on it's side just under the surface of the top of the soil/compost/leaf litter so it can't be seen and water like you would any other plant, can't remember now how long it take to shoot, but it worked for me.
Don't dry the mango seed out, just straight from the mango. In the wild they grow from ripe mango's falling off the tree into leaf litter below.
Mrs W has a recipe for mango crush, I'll try to get a copy later
That would be great Vic, if only they would grow on the South Coast NSW but I don't think it gets hot enough or something, maybe not enough humidity
As a Qlder, I can tell you the best way to eat them is just eat them over the kitchen sink and wash face and arms when finished. None of this fiddling around cutting cheeks off...just get into it!
My sentiments too Beth although I'm not a QLD'er that's how I like to eat them too
Hi Vic, what's the flag in your new av, I can't quite work it out sorry
Hutt River flag WA
I think the best way is to eat them in the nuddy in an empty bathtub
Or make mango ice cream! Yummo!
you would not want to drop the nut would you
The only ones I have trouble eating are the turpentine (common) mango, the original mango to which all the other stock is grafted.
The Peach or Kensington Pride or Bowen, the Calypso or Fruit Salad, lemon, R2E3 is a huge mango the size of a small rock melon.
There's strawberry, banana and about 20 other species of mango. Most can be tasted at least once at the Broome Mango Festival in November when the first ones ripen.
They also grow mango trees as street trees. A huge tree with a massive root system and shade canopy.
In Qld I see they prune them radically to allow easy picking.
In the west they leave the trees huge so the bats can have the top fruit and leave the lower fruit for the pickers.
Just lurv mango. Currently $1.20 ea at a fruit market at Salisbury, SA.
I wouldn't bother with the turpentine CG when there is such a great variety around these days.
Mareeba is another great place for them.