Using the tip of your knife, or a sharp paring or utility knife, cut around this core and remove it. Lay one of the slices flat on your chopping board you will see there is a clearly marked tough core. Lay the pineapple on its side and, taking a chef’s knife, slice down smoothly along the length of the pineapple to cut it into circular slices.Ģ. As a bonus, the pineapple looks pretty if you are going to cut it into rings or large wedges. Repeat, following the spiral lines across the whole pineapple there is a small amount of wastage but nothing like as much as the peel method, and it is much quicker than trying to remove the eyes individually. Repeat this on the other side of the eyes and you should then be able to lift out a thin, v-shaped wedge of pineapple containing all the eyes in that section.
Line your knife up diagonally along a line of eyes and make a shallow cut with the whole blade, angling slightly underneath the eyes. Look closely at the pineapple and you will see that the eyes follow a spiral pattern running down and around the pineapple. A method which saves both time and wastage is to cut out several pineapple eyes at once, but with precision.
#HOW TO CUT A PINEAPPLE SKIN#
Instead of removing the peel as thinly as possible to avoid losing pineapple flesh as above, cut thicker slices to include about half an inch of flesh the eyes are in this part near the skin – but so is the sweetest part of the fruit.Ĭ. This is time-consuming but it works, and there is almost no wastage.ī. Using the very tip of your chef’s knife, or the sharp point of a small paring knife, cut carefully around each eye until it can be removed.
There are three main ways to remove these, but you must balance time against food wastage:Ī. You should now see that the pineapple flesh has lots of little tough brown spots these are called pineapple eyes. Try not to cut away too much of the edible pineapple flesh if your knife is sharp enough you should be able to just take the skin. Remove the tough outer skin by slicing sections from top to bottom and then turning the pineapple repeat until all the skin has been cut away. Stand the pineapple up so that the base is resting on the chopping board. Cut off the base of the pineapple so it will sit flat on your chopping board.ģ. Place the pineapple on its side on a chopping board and, using a sharp chef’s knife, slice off the top to remove the spiky green leaves.Ģ. Whether you want to cut your pineapple into rings or chunks, the first steps are the same you need to remove the tough skin and the small inedible ‘eyes’. How Do You Prepare A Whole Pineapple Quickly And Easily?