How to Peel and Core a Pineapple

hi I'm Katie from Canyon Ranch Lenox Massachusetts and I'm gonna show you a little bit about picking out and breaking down your pineapple so what we're looking at here two totally different pineapples our pineapples there's a lot of different ways people like to check to see if a pineapple is ready they like to pull the stems they like to smell the bottoms well there's a much more foolproof way to tell whether or not your pineapple is ready not necessarily based on just the color of these two but I wanted you to look at the what we call eyes of the pineapple the eyes of the pineapple should be all the same size as you notice when you get to something like this the eyes are starting to become smaller as they get closer to the head of the pineapple that means that this guy could use a little bit longer to ripen so we're gonna start breaking down our ripe one first and foremost we're gonna take off the top and we're also going to take off the bottom make yourself some nice flat surfaces to work this get rid of these guys now the first cut that you have to make in order to open up your pineapples like what I like to call the sacrificial cut because you have to open it up so you have to see where all those eyes are so what we're gonna do is we're just going to make the first cut straight down and take a look at the inside of your pineapple what happens here is that this forms a nice line just like this forms a nice line if you keep your knife behind that line you will not have to go back and take out all these little pieces afterwards so we're going to keep our knife right behind that line and go ahead and slice and you'll notice that we don't have any extra parts or anything that we have to take out after the fact so we're just going to go ahead and do that for our entire pineapple now the best part about cutting your pineapple that way is if you notice that there's very little pineapple attached to the actual outside of there so you may make a few more cuts than you're used to going around the pineapple but you're going to use lose a lot less of your fruit as you do that so most people are familiar with cutting the pineapples straight down the middle taking the V out of the pineapple and slicing it from that direction well if you wanted to have round pineapples so for instance if you were going to be grilling your pineapple what you would want to do is you're going to go ahead and make yourself some slices so one handy little tip that you can use is to take one of your small little cookie cutters and go ahead and just push down on the center of your pineapple it's going to take that core right out of there for you and then you have yourself some nice rings of pineapple [Music]

Channel: How2Heroes

Views: 1,535,480

Keywords: Pineapple (Ingredient), Food (TV Genre), How-to (Website Category), Fruit (Food), Peel (Food)

Id: ETIUK15L2l0

Length: 2min 49sec (169 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 12 2014