How to Cut a Pineapple like a Rock Star
 
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Serves: About 4 cups
Ingredients
  • 1 Pineapple
Instructions
  1. If your pineapple is not ripe,* or if you want warm pineapple (I think it tastes best warm) preheat oven to 350F convection bake. If you question whether it is ripe, bake it. It will be sweeter once baked.
  2. Rinse your pineapple under running water.
  3. Carefully slice off the top of your pineapple as close to the stem as possible.
  4. Dry your pineapple.
  5. Rub the outside with a small amount of oil (I used extra light olive oil).
  6. Bake your pineapple for 15 - 20 minutes or until it is fragrant and the skin turns lightish brown/yellow.
  7. Remove from oven and let it cool until it is easily handleable.
  8. Place the cut side of your pineapple down on a cutting board and begin slicing away the outer layer. Don't slice too deep, only enough to remove the skin.
  9. When you remove the skin, you will see "eyes" all around your pineapple (the brown circles). If you slice too deeply you will remove the eyes, which is what most people do when they don't use this technique. You will lose a lot of delicious pineapple if you are not careful to remove only the outer skin.
  10. Notice that the eyes are arranged in a diagonal pattern. Because of this you can cut each line of eyes out in a single string.
  11. Starting at the top, make a continuous slice directed at a 45 degree angle along a line of eyes. Now slice on the other side of the same row of eyes at a 45 degree angle.
  12. Excise the eyes by gently pulling them out in one single string.
  13. Continue this process around your entire pineapple.
  14. Discard all your strings of eyes.
  15. Remove any remaining skin or unwanted crust from the ends of your pineapple.
  16. Slice the pineapple in half vertically.
  17. Slice each half lengthwise again.
  18. At the center of your pineapple is a pale core. Slice that out. Remove only the really hard part. What remains of the core is really delicious, so don't cut too much away. Warning: the core is the most acidic part. Suck on the core for the most intensely pineapple-burnt mouth of your life!
  19. Slice your pineapple sections into bite-sized chunks.
  20. Enjoy responsibly.
  21. Alternatively you could slice your pineapple into wheels and then carve out the core. Slice it horizontally rather than vertically as in step 16 to achieve this. Either way, delicious!
Notes
* A ripe pineapple will smell sweet at the base.
Recipe by at https://www.thescratchartist.com/how-to-cut-a-pineapple-like-a-rock-star/