How to Properly Pick a Cucumber?

[EarlyBird]

All,

This is perhaps the most basic question you'll ever find here, but being such a newbie I need to ask: once a cucumber is ready to be picked, how should it be picked?


Do I just pull it off, twist it off, cut the stem holding it off?

I figure that if I do it wrong I may keep a new cucumber from growing in it's place, or damage the plant, or something.

Is there a "proper" way to going about it? Thanks! I'm a bit embarrassed, but there you go!