Kitchen Ninja: A Hack For Slicing Cherry Tomatoes

Slicing cherry tomatoes individually can be kind of time consuming. While we're never opposed to just eating them whole, sometimes you've got to slice into them. Here's a quick tip for halving handfuls of cherry tomatoes at a time, using a few things you probably have lying around your kitchen. 

If you've got any other tips or tricks for dealing with tomatoes, share them with us in the comments!!

You need two lids from plastic containers, fill one with the tomatoes. 

Place the other on top. 

Hold the top lid to keep everything in place and carefully slice through the tomatoes. 

And that's it, instantly halved cherry tomatoes. Now go enjoy the rest of tomato season. 

Eat them.

Peel them.

Grow them.

 

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Comments

[puzzled500]

12:33 PM on 08/14/2012

A serrated knife works perfectly.

[kerryandjanie]

11:55 AM on 08/14/2012

I stab them with a two-pronged tiny shell fish fork and cut them easily. Works with grapes to. I use the little forks for olives and other things like sardines that I don't want to pick up by hand because of the oil or liquid they're in.

[lken06880]

10:58 AM on 08/14/2012

This is a tip for the stupid cook, since when is halving a cherry tomato a big chore?

[LudeDude714]

10:34 AM on 08/14/2012

Nice tip but I would never use it, I can slice up just as many in the time it would take to arrange them all inside two lids. You want them cut evenly, so all the stem tops would have to be facing the same way, unless you just put them in any old way. But still, with the time I spent in kitchens, my father was a chef, I worked as a chef, and my German made Henckel knives I could slice through a box of cherry tomatoes probably faster then using this trick. But it is a nice tip for the home cook the home cooks.

[dickn2000]

10:29 AM on 08/14/2012

But they're sliced the wrong direction.

[Jane Coombs]

06:56 PM on 08/13/2012

This tip also works for grapes. Been doing it for years!

[plantbasedpunk]

01:52 PM on 08/13/2012

Very clever. I probably will still cut them one at a time, though. I'm pretty nifty with a knife so it doesn't take long. Probably less time that it would to wash 2 lids by hand.

[garystartswithg]

01:40 PM on 08/13/2012

depending on how ripe your tomatoes are a bread knife might come in handy. you can get a knife just for tomatoes, but its just a small version of a bread knife.

[Mex-Chef]

10:47 PM on 08/12/2012

Great idea! I hate when people serve them whole and out they fly when the fork misses.

[howeverfaraway]

06:07 PM on 08/12/2012

Great idea! I always slice them because I don't like biting into them whole. You never know if you're gonna get "the big squirt" or the "little squirt". ;)

[CCateringC]

02:27 PM on 08/12/2012

Ha ha this is a method we have used on numerous occasions. Just never really thought to share it. So props to you for sharing and thank you.

[Reverend Billy Bob]

06:52 PM on 08/10/2012

Brilliant~!