Can you cut pineapple the right way?

Everyone keeps their secrets and their recipes in the kitchen, but there are some absolutely essential techniques. With i Dos & Don'ts let's examine some of the most common mistakes in the kitchen and we reveal how to solve them, thanks to the help of The School of Italian Cuisine.

Because pineapple is good

Pineapple is often identified as a food fat burning: it is its stem in particular to be rich in bromelain, a substance that helps digestion and improves the metabolism and the immune system, as well as having properties anti-inflammatory and to favor the reduction of the water retention.

Pineapple is an import fruit that we can find practically all the year, even if we usually associate it with summer, due to its high water content, mineral salts and its low fat content.
To understand if the pineapple is mature they are fundamental color is smell: it must not be green or brown, but must be characterized by yellow – orange nuances, and must give off its typical sweet scent.

How to cut pineapple

Pineapple can be used both in recipes desserts that salted, but the ideal is to consume it fresh. We can get some of them cubes for a fruit salad, cutting it as shown in the video. First of all, remove the leaves and the ends of the fruit. To avoid having to affect the peduncles one by one, make a cut deeper and remove them together with the peel. Cut the pineapple in half and remove the central part, harder and more difficult to chew.

Many other techniques and advice from our chefs await you at the cooking classes of La Scuola de la Cucina Italiana.