How to Properly Cut a Lemon or Lime

[texruss]

Give me a break and look at the results...the intent is to have a wedge that fits on a glass for a home party, or restaurant setting instead of a little sick looking piece of fruit drowning in a glass requiring the user to fish it out like a dead minnow. Salud!

[texruss]

It was as much a training film for using Moviemaker for my teachers as it was for cutting limes. Yes, it was a bad slippery board, no the knife was not dull, but very sharp. But I can assure you I have cut thousands of limes and lemons on great wooden boards and crappy plastic ones and never cut my fingers.

[texruss]

Loved the comments...even the EFFing crackhead comment (now deleted by his request) the user came back months later and begged me to remove ...(nervous about employer search bots? *;-)

As for the slippery board, dull knife...in my defense I was traveling that day training teachers 40 miles from my home about Windows Moviemaker and I just had bare essentials for a "kitchen" tutorial on cutting fruit and filmed it myself with a tripod while they were at lunch.

[BaconMuffinz313]

Lmao at the commentz

[0011486]

Thanks for this video, I almost ended up cutting it wrong!

[lukekegray]

How about ' How to properly stop a chopping board from moving all over the work top so i don't at some point in the very near future slice off an appendage and bleed out '??

Try a fairly damp paper towel under the board that will stop the movement

[texruss]

@lukekegray

Good idea..I will try that the next time I am in such a primitive kitchen like a school classroom. *;-)

[absolutaces89]

Wow, the last time I tried to cut limes for my rum and cokes one night at a party, I tried it the "obvious" way by slicing down the middle and then trying to symmetrically cuts the wedges, while on about my 3rd lime I cut my index finger a little bit which resulted in a poor beer pong performance that nice due to my inability to grip the ball properly! Now round 2, I thought to myself "there must be a tutorial online" and sure enough after just 1 try I now have a bag of lime wedges! THANK YOU!!!

[texruss]

@absolutaces89

Glad to help...it is a fairly easy trick and one you will never forget. Now a master chef or bartender may have some ungodly unnatural weird work of art slicing technique...I'll have to try one of those some day. *;-)

[BaconMuffinz313]

THANK YOU!!!

[IndyScan]

My life is now complete. It would have been better if his dull knife and wobbly mini cutting board would have ended up in an injury...

[texruss]

@IndyScan

Au contraire my friend. My hands look very nice for my age and I am VERY careful in the kitchen. Thanks for the vote of confidence however. >:->

[jonsangster]

Informative video!

[codzorz1]

wat does the beginning story hav to do with cutting them?

[texruss]

@codzorz1

You must not get out much...try googling fecal matter in lemon slices

[neccrew]

Ughhh !!! I've cut through a dozen lemons without any success... Do you think you can do a "Cutting a Lemon For Dummies" version too, for those having difficulty? Thanks

[texruss]

That sounds like a good idea...perhaps even call it A Dummy Cutting a Lemon for Dummies. lol Maybe you need textual clues instead of visual....whack off the ends, sit it on a flat end and cut straight through the top, Then score along the middle laterally .....uh...on second thought....just use pause at each step in Full Screen YouTube mode. *;-) Take care and you will get it perfect! Cheers!

[LalidatorClan]

you took the time. wow. but thx

[zhaozhou1]

Thank you. :)

[reedsheldon88]

If you don't cut a lemon or lime lengthwise it is very annoying to squeeze the slice into your drink. Plus when you cut a lemon lengthwise equally everyone has the same size lemon. Who wants the short stubbly little lemon the comes from the end. Oh and BTW you need to sharpen your knife.

[texruss]

@reedsheldon88

Actually the shorter wedges are easier to squeeze so size doesn't matter. Who wants boring uniformity anyway? *;-)

[kidshamrock1997]

I was getting nerous for his fingers, that chopping board was sliding all over the place!

[texruss]

@kidshamrock1997

You should see me kill an angry rattlesnake threatening my family or pets...then you will see I am very unlikely to cut myself in such a mundane affair as cutting fruit. Now cutting the head off a 5-foot rattlesnake trying to kill you...that takes nerves of steel. And I don't kill snakes unless they threaten my habitat...as the great herpetologist Laurence Klauber said: I hold no brief for rattlers in civilized habitats.

[Alfonsoyslas]

thanks

[ladeuxiemeetoile]

thank you for the demo :)

[tasiol88]

OMG !! how u do that ?. it must be some kind of magic.

[h3rshel]

very helpful...thank you

[3000cheerios]

as weird as this sounds... im kinda glad i watched that

[mattcarpanini]

Often, the word "genius" is over-used. But rarely have I seen a human being more fitting for that title than this man.

[pompodore]

I have always wanted to know that. Thank you!!

[auziebabe911]

WOW!

[HITmanThief]

Great lime cutting! I wish I could do it like that