How to Choose, Use, and Core a Pineapple

Hey y'all. Today's how-to is the trifecta of how-tos. How to choose a pineapple, how to use a

pineapple, and how to core a pineapple. Y'all know that if you reach inside and if you can pick a

leaf out like this, that's a ripe pineapple. So that's how you choose a pineapple. How to use a

pineapple. My mom taught me this trick. I'm going to take the top off, and now when you do a fruit

tray, you hold on to this, and you park it in the back, and you build up the fruit around it. It gives

height to your fruit tray. It's green. It's fruit. It's beautiful. Now how to core a pineapple. We're

going to take the top off. Let's take the bottom off. We're going to take our knife down the side

We want to cut it as close to as we can, but at the same time, we have to get all these brown

prickly spots off. Go around your pineapple, work down to the bottom

So you've got to cut all these eyes out of the pineapple

And now you see the core down in here right here in the center I going to stay right next to that and cut straight down four times around the core

And now we've got four different pieces of pineapple that we can work with

So if you want to do spears, which spears are always fun

or you can do a couple of different cuts, and you can make chunks

There's a delicious fruit salad recipe right here on the network that you can use

I also love a pineapple sandwich. So if you get a hot dog bun, a little bit of mayonnaise

a little bit of mayonnaise, put the pineapple in the hot dog bun

you can eat you a pineapple sandwich. I love to do it that way

And if you're running short on space in your grocery cart, you can take the top

Give it a twist and you can remove it that way. My mom will kill you though because she loves to decorate with them

I'm Jamie Dean and this is how to use a pineapple