More questions about feeding earthworms

So I've recently started feeding seymore earthworms. At first, I gota few from my garden. they were pretty small and he was able to swallow them hole. But it's winter and they're hard to find so I got some nightcrawlers from the store and they're HUGE.

After giving him a big daddy and watching him get thrashed around the tank by this worm sticking 4 inches out of his mouth (he refused to let go LOL) I had to cut it off just outside of his mouth. NOW I read that oh yeah, I should be cutting them into 1-2" lengths. duh.

So my question is, how do you go about doing this? Do you jsut lay the wiggling worm out and hack it up? Do you freeze it first? Then, after you've cut this worm into say, 3 pieces, what do you do with the 2 remaining pieces when he only eats 1? OBviously they die. do you stick this bleeding, dying worm chunk back in the container and feed it the next day? am I missing something? YUCK!!

After that...tell your friends you stayed up late cutting worms with a pair of scissors in your basement feeding your Axies! Gavin

I suppose that you could freeze it first, but freezing makes them rather mushy - I wouldn't recommend it.. Here is an illustrated guide:
Caudata Culture Articles - How to Feed a Large Worm to a Small Newt

thank you so much...that was exactly what I was looking for! I had browsed through all the axolotl specific info, but not the general caudata info.