Oxo Good Grips Mango Splitter | 
| Brand: Oxo
List Price: $14.50
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Rating:  125 reviews
Sales Rank: 492
Color: White
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 4.3 x 8.5 x 2.5
MPN: 1067504
Model: 1067504
UPC: 719812014579
EAN: 0719812014579
ASIN: B000AREB5S
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| Features:
| • | Mango splitter makes the fruit no longer a chore to prepare | | • | Slices fruit cleanly in half, leaving almost nothing behind on the seed | | • | Single-press convenience; soft, comfortable handles provide a secure grip | | • | Sharp, sturdy, stainless-steel blades; dishwasher-safe | | • | Measures 5-1/4 by 6-3/4 by 2 inches; limited lifetime warranty |
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Amazon.com Review
There's nothing as luscious as a ripe mango. Growing in popularity, mangoes are now available in many stores year-round and can be eaten fresh, cubed into salads, or sliced and baked on top of chicken breasts. Helping prepare the fruit for eating is this ingenious mango splitter from OXO. The splitter is a circular white plastic device with sharp stainless-steel blades in the center and OXO's signature black comfort handles on two sides. Holding both handles, the user pushes the blades down through the mango from the top, separating the seed from two halves of mango. The flesh can then be cubed or sliced off the skin on those two halves. After the prep work, the mango splitter slips right into the dishwasher for hassle-free cleaning. --Ann Bieri
Product Description
A Mango is a sweet, delicious fruit. It can be difficult to peel and slice, however. Traditionally cooks instruct people that the following steps should be followed to open a Mango - Cut off the stem of the mango; Hold the fruit upright, cupping it in the palm of your hand; With the other hand, use a potato peeler or a paring knife to cut away the peel, following the curves of the fruit; Lay the fruit on its flat end and slice lengthwise, working around the flat seed in the middle. Cut the fruit into thin slices as desired.; Stand the mango upright or otherwise move around to carve away the remaining flesh surrounding the seed. OR you can use the Oxo Good Grips Mango Splitter.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 120 more reviews...
 A long time coming August 11, 2005
Justin M. Park (NY)
110 out of 116 found this review helpful
This little invention I just bought cuts out a lot of mango and a lot of BS. I pay about $1.50 per mango, so losing flesh in cutting the things up is like a punch in the throat. Mangoes are well connected to their skin and seed, making it hard not to waste or at least end up with a million little hacked off pieces and cut up hands.
I didn't give it 5 stars simply because there is still a small bit of waste, but given the stubborn nature of the mango, that's inevitable. Someday someone will breed a mango that just pops away from the seed like a peach.
There's a slight learning curve on the tool, but I got it on my first try. I doesn't look like it should work but it does. Amazing and rewarding the first time you use it and have two robust shoulders taken off the seed.
 It Works! April 14, 2006
Eric Eskin (Wilmington, DE USA)
66 out of 67 found this review helpful
Always avoided buying Mangos because of the hassle cutting them. Noticed this tool on Amazon and decided to give it a try (although I did not expect it to work). The design is quite ingenious. The cutting blade is flexible enough to "hug" the pit and cut the fruit away. I would highly recommend.
Works quite well for medium to somewhat large mangoes December 16, 2005
Pimpernel Sandybanks (Santa Cruz)
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
I agree with the earlier poster that this device allows you to make mango salsa much faster. Yes there is still a little cutting to get meat off the seed, but most of the work is done instantly and painlessly.
Pros:
Makes seeding a mango almost instant
Cons:
I don't know what I'll do when this device eventually dulls (sharpening it will be difficult)
It doesn't handle the largest sizes of mangoes
Hairy pits June 20, 2006
Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
The problem with mangos is that the pit is well-secured inside the fruit by a pit with long, tough fibers attached. The pit is an inconvenient flat oblong, slippery under the knife. However, if you admire the "peach soaked in turpentine" exotic taste (and I certainly do) you might wonder if there isn't some way to cut out the flesh of the mango without a long, hard struggle.
This device is positioned over the mango like an apple corer, allowing you to cut the fibers around the pit and release it from (most) of the meat. While there is still some waste, and while mangos and their pits vary in size, this is pretty good.
It certainly beats my current method of mango preparation, which is to slice along side of the pit, making two shallow halves. I dice the fruit inside the hull and slice it off that tough skin with a knife positioned flat along the skin. I get cubes of mango, and then I either try to trim the pit or I nibble it as a cook's tidbit.
This cutter is faster by far than my old method and a lot neater. Big thumbs up to OXO for figuring this out.
I wish I'd thought of this October 12, 2005
J. Pointer (LA, CA)
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
If you eat mango & have ever wished there was an easier way of getting to the edible part, then buy one of these things.
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