How to Cut a Pineapple

Cutting pineapples may seem difficult, but it's really a children's game. There are several ways of cutting it, with additional tools or without, so I'm going to illustrate a few of them.

The easiest way: using a pineapple cutter

By far, the easiest way of cutting a pineapple is using a pineapple cutter: this tool consists of a sharp spiral, much like Archimedes' screw, that cuts its way into pineapples' flesh with a spiral-shaped cut, leaving the core intact. You can find pineapple cutters of different sizes, to make sure you don't leave out too much flesh.

• First, get a pineapple cutter like the one in the picture.
  
  A pineapple cutter
• Then, remove the crown with a sharp knife.
  
  Slice the crown away
• Put the cutter at the center of the cut side, then turn the spiral around, the result is shown in the picture.
  
  Here's how your pineapple looks after using the cutter

Cutting pineapples like a local

A second method, that tends to preserve the most flesh, is cutting them like a local:

• Remove the crown with a sharp knife
  
  Slice the crown away
• Then, remove the outer shell, don't worry about the "eyes", we'll take care of them later.
  
  Removing the outer skin
• Remove the eyes spots cutting v-shaped grooves on the fruit.
  
  Removing pineapple eye spots
• In the end, your fruit will look like the picture. You can proceed to slice it if you want.
  
  A cut pineapple