Now this may seem funny to every person that has grown up with pineapples around. But believe me, it isn't when you get that strange fruit into your hands for the first time in your life. When I was young, by which I mean 1980's. In Poland there was almost no way to get a pineapple, there was no import working for regular people. From time to time someone had a canned pineapple, sent as a gift from U.S. or Australia and if you just tasted it, you considered yourself lucky. Then in the beginning of 1990's it all changed and I bought my first, whole, fresh pineapple. Incredible feeling. But... what next? I remember inspecting the fruit with intention of finding some point where to start peeling it. When I used knife, it was either really hard to slice, or I was almost smashing it. As a result of all this, I've ended up with wasted remaining of the fruit, just a little bit of it eaten, and a feeling, that pineapples are not good at all.
But it was then. Some time later I learned to prepare pineapple with a knife. I'm not good with it at all, but I manage to do that as an average amateur does. However, you don't have to use knife anymore to prepare a pineapple. It doesn't have to be that tough at all. Ladies and gentleman. I proudly announce the device with a meaningful name 'pineapple slicer'.
Pine Apples
This accessory is specifically designed to take out all the goods from pineapples. It has a solid handle, a tubular core and a cutting, spiral disc. Thanks to its construction it leaves the internal core and external skin of the pineapple, and extracts only the most juicy and tasteful part. But that's not all, this juicy part is also being cut into a nice spiral. If you cut this spiral from one side, it changes in a series of delicious pineapple rings. A perfect solution.
How do you operate that? Impossibly easy. All you have to do is cut the top of your pineapple. Then you put the cutting part of the slicer to the uncovered fruit interior, and rotate it while gently pushing towards the bottom of the fruit. The pineapple slicer works like a cutting screw. You screw it down the fruit and it cuts everything for you. At the end, all you need to do is just pull the slicer from the fruit, and here you go. Usually the handle of the pineapple slicer can be removed and the fruit spiral slides down from the tubular part. And here you go, pineapple sliced and ready.
Having the spiral, you can leave it as is, you can cut it into full circles, half circles, or do anything you want with it. It's all tasty, no wooden-like parts. Remember, that the other part of the pineapple, the one you don't eat, can serve as a cocktail glass, or salad bowl.
There are also other types of pineapple slicers, but they all are some modifications of the one described here and usually lack some functions.
And what experience with pineapples do you have? Are they your old friends, or complete strangers?
A Fruit You've Never Seen Before - Pineapple
Krzysztof Zborowski,
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