How do you slice your tomatoes?

Opportunity can be patient

In quarters vertically, then 8ths with a horizontal cut through each

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Guaranteed I’ll forget the next time I have the opportunity.

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It matters not, you have already done it in your mind

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very close to my style tbh, but I don’t do the horizontal cut.

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That’s essentially a whole slice being thrown away unnecessarily. If you’re going to do B you should at least use that bit and just pull out the stem

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How are those chunks of tomato working out in your cheese and tomato sandwich?

This is how I B

nicer tbh. get a nice fleshy piece of tomato rather than minimal flesh but loads of soggy juice.

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not on cheese book so somewhat non existently, I usually just pop the 8ths on top of whatever I’m cooking though

why are these labelled ‘a’ and ‘b’ when they have the perfectly good names ‘polar’ and ‘equatorial’

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I prefer to cut my tomatoes according to the placement of the sun at the various equinoxes on the day they were picked

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I was going to go with longitudinal and latitudinal but I can never remember which is which

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IN THE MORNING
WHEN THE SUN SHINES
ON YOUR TOMATO

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tricky precession/polar wander/co-ordinate calculation there

admirable but utterly pointless

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You get odd-shaped chunks though which is fun

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Oh!

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Makes a difference to the aroma as well

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tomatoes are risotto

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