Pineapple Cutters
Most of these devices are stainless steel pineapple cutters, although some have an attractive strong plastic casing. To find out the simplest ways to use your stainless steel pineapple cutters it’s worth taking a look at instructional videos. There are plenty of how-to videos about stainless steel pineapple cutters on YouTube and other sites.
Stainless steel pineapple cutters for the home are compact gadgets comprising a rod with a handle at one end and a circular, slightly spiral blade at the other. To use stainless steel pineapple cutters you cut the top off the pineapple then press the rod into the centre. By turning the handle to twist and push the pineapple cutters down into the fruit you will rotate the spiral blade. Using the pineapple cutters doesn’t take much effort and you soon reach the bottom of the fruit.
The rod on the stainless steel pineapple cutters is hollow and cuts round the core of the fruit as the blade spirals downwards. The blade of the stainless steel pineapple cutters rotates as you turn the handle and cuts the fruit into slices of just the right size. At the same time, the blade of the pineapple cutters separates the slices from the outer peel. When you pull the pineapple cutters out of the fruit you will find the peeled and cored slices all attached to the rod. Simply slide the slices off the pineapple cutters on to a serving dish and you’ve finished.
Using the pineapple cutters in this way also means that you have a neatly prepared pineapple skin which could be used as a serving dish on your table. Alternatively you can cut the top and bottom off with a serrated knife before using your pineapple cutters. When you use the stainless steel pineapple cutters this way you can remove the blade when you’ve cut the whole fruit, then remove the rod and push the slices out of the peel.
If you want your pineapple sliced lengthways it’s best to get melon pineapple cutters. With melon pineapple cutters you can cut melons and other fruit as well as pineapples. The method with melon pineapple cutters is to use the base, which is circular, to support the fruit. You then take a separate part of the melon pineapple cutters to do the slicing. This is a circular gadget that fits around the fruit and you push it down so that it’s central blades core, peel and slice melons and pineapples from top to bottom in long chunks.
Whether you use stainless steel pineapple cutters in the rod design, or melon pineapple cutters, you can find electronic gadgets to do a similar job. Electronic stainless steel pineapple cutters are probably of most use in restaurants. Larger commercial pineapple cutters separate the tasks of coring, peeling and slicing but work in similar ways to the most simple stainless steel pineapple cutters.