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cutting a pineapple-the horror
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OSPAM (JLove98905) wrote:
> I'm one of those people who is usually too lazy to buy a whole pineapple and
> cut it up. So when I bought a pineapple with plans to do so, I was very proud
> of myself. However, pride was quickly replaced with frustration and
> disappointment when I cut myself trying to follow the directions. A big,
> sharp
> knife and a slippery pineapple, I discovered, do not cooperate.
>
> I followed the directions on the label, which briefly went as follows: Cut
> the
> head off. Quarter the pineapple, and remove the quartered core lengthwise
> from
> each portion. Then, use the knife to slide just under the skin, freeing it
> from
> the meat. The rest is easy.
>
> I got as far as quartering the pineapple before I cut myself. Removing the
> core
> was not as straightforward as it looked....the way I was holding the piece
> down
> while de-coring put my hand right in the way of the knife. After taking a
> time
> out to recover, I had to continue with the process, although I wasn't able to
> properly hold anything down with my left hand due to the cut. (Pineapple
> juice
> stings, by the way.) Also, perhaps because my knife was too big, I couldn't
> really follow the curve of the skin to free it without losing a lot of
> rounded
> meaty bits.
>
> I'm a bit traumatized. Surely there must be a better way? What's the right
> knife? (I used my new santoku knife, which cut the pineapple like butter, but
> is perhaps too big.)
> -Jen
> Half the people you know are below average. -Steven Wright
>
>
Probably the knife...
Personally, I take a chefs knife and cut off the head, then cut the
pineapple into 8ths, not just quarters.
I then switch to a lighter fillet knife to core and peel.
A large knife is too bulky to finish the delcate work.
HTH? :-)
K.
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