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I love pineapple, but I’ve always been intimidated by its size and spikiness. It always seemed to me like you’d need an industrial knife and some kind of training to cut one. To get my pineapple fix I’ve resorted to purchasing the pre-cut, pre-packaged kind, or to picking all the pineapple chunks out of the fruit salad at staff meetings, but I’ve always wanted to give the real thing a go.
Imagine my delight when I opened up my Williams-Sonoma catalog and saw the Pineapple Easy Slicer. The description reads:
Transform a prickly pineapple into a stack of juicy rings in seconds with the aid of this cleverly designed stainless-steel slicer. Insert the heavy-duty cutting shaft into the top of a trimmed pineapple, apply light pressure and twist the handle. The tool swiftly cores and slices the fruit, leaving its shell intact.
I picked one up this weekend, along with a plump little pineapple. The tool looks like a fat metal rod with a handle on one end and a circular blade on the other. To use it, you lop of the top of the pineapple, insert the blade-end of the tool into the pineapple flesh, and turn.
Surprisingly, the tool works just as advertised. It requires little muscle-power—I’m a whimp and I found that it cuts very easily with very little pressure. Removing the tool does take some wrangling, but nothing the average pineapple eater shouldn’t be able to handle. The pineapple rings remain on the slicer when you remove it. The best part is, if you are careful not to cut to the very bottom, you end up with an empty pineapple bowl, which can be used for things like a yogurt and honey dressing for a fruit salad.
Some things to know: the pineapple rings are in one continuous spiral, so if you want slices you do need to do a little bit of trimming by hand. Also, the core remains in the pineapple, so if you want to use the empty pineapple you need to cut that out as well.
Overall, I found the Easy Pineapple Slicer easy to use and will definitely be buying more whole pineapples in the future.
The Pineapple Easy Slicer cost $24.99 at Williams-Sonoma
