I've seen people go to great lengths to chop up a bell pepper. There's the technique where you saw around the stem (sometimes while poking your hand a few times) and then awkwardly scoop out the innards with your fingers. Or the chopping in half method which leaves some delicate interior cutting to remove the white parts. Now watch the LA Times test kitchen break down a bell pepper in no time — without any scooping, sawing or dainty carving!
The first step to bell pepper bliss? We've showed you our method, and the LA Times test kitchen takes things one step further. Cut off the top and bottom of the pepper to create an even flat base for chopping. Then place the pepper on end and slice the sides off from the middle. No fuss!
→ Watch the video: Test Kitchen video tip: Breaking down a bell pepper at the Los Angeles Times
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I prefer to make cuts from the top to the bottom around the pepper, holding the stem, then the seeds stay with the top and you can slice the sections however you need to.
You use the video technique without slicing off the top and bottom, and thus saving a bit more of the pepper from the trash (or extra cuts if you want to get the good stuff from the top and bottom)
That only works if the pepper isn't oddly shaped and you can stand it on end after slicing off the top and bottom. I like the longish, curvy red field peppers, so I'll have to keep on slicing them in half, top to bottom, first.
Seems a lot of pepper going to waste. Course I watched video without sound so not sure what she was saying. But she did push the innards off with the ends. Cooking shows seem to promote waste. They never scrape out the bowls or pans, always leave so much behind. None of that vegetable waste should be going in the garbage, should go to compost or a worm bin.
you dont waste any if you do just like she did and then chop off the good parts of the top and the bottom.
alternately you can just cut the pepper in half from top to bottom and pull out the ribs and seeds then chop accordingly..