How to Cut a Tomato
Learn how to cut a tomato into slices and wedges for your next recipe
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 1 tomato
Instructions
How to cut a tomato into slices
- Wash the tomato to get any unwanted material off like dirt and pesticides.
- Remove the tomato stem by twisting it.
- Cut the ends off of the tomato, if the non-stem end is not too hard you can go ahead and leave it.
- Slice the tomato into 1/4" to 3/8" slices.
How to cut a tomato into wedges
- Wash the tomato
- Cut the tomato in half equally cutting vertically through with the stem side is up.
- Cut the tomato halves into quarters, in the end, you should get about 8 wedges. You want to make sure that you keep some of the centers of the tomato in every piece so that it stays intact.
- Remove the part of the stem that is woody on the top of the tomato.