My first stab (pun intended) at cutting a butternut squash I foundit very hard to cut. Used every knife I could find too. Then I thought...........what about my electric knife? That did make it easier by far. Then someone mentioned to stab it all over and bake it so that's what I do these days. I'll fill a cookie sheet with squash of a similar size, take them out when done and put in another cookie sheet full of squash. The 1st sheet is cooling so I go do some sewing. When the 2nd sheet comes out of the oven and if I have another sheet to put in, then it goes in and I start to cut up the 1st sheet of squash. By a couple of hours I have all my squash baked, cut into cubes, bagged and into my freezer for whatever it is I'll make with them. Never tried any kind of squash till I moved to Iowa and my sister introduced me to it. Now I love the stuff.