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KNIFE SKILLS: How to Cut a Bell Pepper There are two camps when it comes to cutting peppers: those who cut skin side up and those who cut skin side down I used to be in the former, finding that having the skin up was the only way I could break through it with my knife The flesh would act as support while the knife cut through the skin Then I realized that with a really sharp knife, cutting through the skin when the pepper faces down is not a problem, and cutting that way prevents you from compressing the flesh To cut a bell pepper, start by splitting it lengthwise in half through the stem with a sharp knife Pull out the stem and seedy core and discard Pull out the white ribs with your fingertips For pepper strips, place each pepper half skin side down on the cutting board and slice lengthwise into strips of even width For dice, hold a few strips at a time and slice across them