Chopping fresh cranberries

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Are there any good ways to chop fresh cranberries? It tends to end up a bit tedious for me, not catching too many at a time with the knife, and chasing after the ones that roll away. (And I don't have any machines that'd do this for me.)

Best Answer

You might consider trying slicing them in half first, so at the very least, they're not a round sphere that's liable to roll away. Here's the typical procedure for cherry tomatoes, grapes, pitted olives, etc:

  1. Place a few of them on your cutting surface (as many as would fit comfortably in the palm of your hand
  2. place the palm of your non-knife hand on top of the items.
  3. arc your fingers up as best you can
  4. slice horizontally with a very sharp knife, parallel to your hand and the cutting surface.

If that's small enough, stop, otherwise pile up a bunch of halves, and run your knife through like anything else.

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