Place your palm flat on top of the fruit. Keep your fingers curled away like a tiger’s paw. Safety first, party second.
Slide the knife through the center in one smooth, confident motion. Don’t saw back and forth like a maniac. One clean cut.
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You’ll feel it pop as the knife passes through the membrane. That sound is pure satisfaction.
What Just Happened?
Congratulations. You now have two perfect hemispheres. They should look like tiny, yellow-orange planets.
If juice runs down your wrist, lick it. You earned that. Grapefruit juice is nature’s sour candy.
And here’s a quirky fact: that white pith? It’s packed with pectin, a fiber that helps lower cholesterol. Don’t scrape it off like a monster.