Having tried another mango cutter that was completely useless, I nevertheless picked up one of these today and was pleasantly suprised. I just used it for the first time, to make mango salsa, and could hardly believe how easily and neatly it cut the flesh in half and away from the pit with just about no waste at all. Once it was halved, I chopped the mango in the skin then removed it fairly evenly from the skin. Not as waste-free as with avocados, it did leave a little meat on the skin that I scraped off, so there was a little mushy fruit. I think it probably won't work so well with larger mangos. Now I won't procrastinate using those mangos more often for dread of handling the slippery fruit. We'll be having Martha Stewart's wonderful mango tartlets a lot more often now.