My kids think I am the only one on the planet that can cut an orange “properly.” I love that they think that. Their friends also tell me they love how I cut oranges. Then adults started telling me the same thing, which is when I started to believe there was something special about how I do it.
Hmmm…who woulda thunk it?
In this post I’ll show you my favorite way to cut an orange so you can see just how simple it is to get those picture perfect slices.
How I Cut An Orange
Here’s what I do. I slice the orange down the center. Notice the stem in the picture. It’s important that the orange is cut across the middle, not vertical through the stem part. Make sense??
If you did it right, it will look like this. So pretty. You’ll be able to see triangles with a white pithy center.
This is one of those special oranges that are a pinkish orange color, called a Cara Cara Navel Orange. Yum!! Just another reason why I love Trader Joes.
Ok, now take the knife to the side of the white center, and make a slice.
Do the same on the other side, avoiding the white center.
The goal is to get both the top stem and bottom “dimple” in one slice. Why?
So the white, pithy center is contained in just those two pieces, which leaves the rest of the slices nice and juicy and tender, with no membrane to deal with.
See? Perfect orange slices.
My kids argue over who gets stuck with the two end pieces. Usually, it’s mom!
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Is this how you learned to slice oranges?
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Andrew
September 12, 2016 at 8:53 pmLots of fiber in the center membrane part. The main reason why fruit is considered healthy in the first place and not just as terrible for you as fruit juice. Would recommend you try to eat it.
AmyNewNostalgia
September 12, 2016 at 9:56 pmHi Andrew!
We do eat it, it is just that most of the membrane is contained in 2 pieces. I do not cut it out. I agree, there’s lots of health benefits in the membrane!
Mel Proud
June 21, 2015 at 8:06 pmOh I LOVE this! x
sally
February 16, 2015 at 11:40 amI am SO GLAD someone else cuts them like I do!!!! My whole family says I do it wrong….I say I am the only one who does it right!!! Thanks so much for this. I have to show it to my family!
Millie Russell
August 26, 2016 at 2:19 amI cut it like this too!
AmyNewNostalgia
August 29, 2016 at 12:46 pmIt works so well!
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Lili M
May 24, 2013 at 6:37 amThose oranges make me want an orange:)
Amy (So There, by Amy)
May 23, 2013 at 5:07 pmUMM, hi, this is genius!
I featured your tip on my blog today 🙂
Thank you so much!
http://www.sotherebyamy.com/2013/05/things-i-love-thursdays-kitchen-tips.html
Luzette Colon
April 25, 2013 at 4:07 pmI just cut my first orange this way, thanks to you I will never cut another orange any other way again. I’m a proud mom now lol, thanks for such a simple solution.
Anonymous
March 17, 2013 at 5:35 pmWhat a great idea. Prettier pieces than the way I do it. Can’t wait to try it.
Anonymous
January 5, 2013 at 2:42 amMy mother and grandmother always cut them this way, and I am 75 years old.
Never understood why anybody would cut them any other way.
Anonymous
January 5, 2013 at 2:17 amMy mom has always cut oranges this way (and I’m 50), as a result, I’ve always cut them this way too … on the “equator” (the stem end and navel end being the “poles,” like a globe). Slice just a bit down between the pulp and the skin at each end, and when you bend the ends back, all the sections pop up and you can easily eat them off the peel. I’ve had to be patient with folks who don’t cut them this way, because, is there really any other way? It’s always been obvious to me!
Patricia
December 12, 2012 at 10:39 pmVery clever, Amy!
One that even a non-cook, like me, could handle!
Thank You!
Patricia
thewadebrigade
December 13, 2012 at 3:20 amDoes this work with grape fruit too? I love eating them unpeeled like an orange but hate the proccess of removing the membrane.
Off The Cuff Cooking
March 16, 2012 at 3:56 amNifty — I had not thought of that!
I also have a trick for cutting onions on my blog if you want to check it out!
http://offthecuffcooking.blogspot.com/2011/09/some-tips-about-onions.html
Pamela
May 8, 2011 at 1:16 amWho would have thought there was a craft to it. Your slices look better than any of mine ever have. Now I want to go grocery shopping!
Melanie
May 5, 2011 at 1:37 amLOVE this! I just linked to you at my linky party because this was one of my favorite reads of the week! 🙂 thanks so much! I would love for you to stop my and link up at “Only A Breath”.
Have a great day!
Melanie
erin
May 4, 2011 at 11:02 pmYou’re such a genius! Who taught you that? I hate the way I cut oranges. I did need this tutorial. 🙂 And now I need to run to T.J.s and get some of those yummy looking oranges. 🙂
Robin
May 4, 2011 at 4:45 pmOh my goodness! I end up with the same results when I cut mine!I start out like you, cutting them in half but then I lay the cut side of the orange flat and angle slice it fom there. Voila’! Very cool.
Anonymous
May 4, 2011 at 3:28 pmI can smell the orange essence as I read your entry! What a simple idea for the day and one which will be used often. How refreshing to read about such a good, simple foodie technique!
Marianne
May 4, 2011 at 5:19 amOk you’ve got me. I have refused to buy oranges for such a long time because my kids don’t like the white part. I will buy some next time I go to the grocer and I will use your method of cutting and see what they say then. So easy, but I would never have thunk to cut it that way 🙂