The pineapple hack makes peeling the outer shell simple.
Summer is the time to refresh, and there’s a hack that can introduce you to an easy, hassle-free way to enjoy your pineapple.
Just imagine if you could slightly pull at one circular protrusion sticking out of a pineapple and have a ready-made piece come out. Would you do it? If so, there’s a hack that lets you keep picking juicy new pieces from the peel. If you only have a few now, you could refrigerate the rest for later.
The Steps
With a few simple steps, you can open each protrusion on the outside, with an inside piece of pineapple attached to it using your hands. First, you want to remove the top or crown of the pineapple by turning it. It will simply then just twist off. Next, you bang the pineapple against a hard surface. This loosens the pineapple inside. For the next step, you roll the pineapple back and forth a few times. Then, just merely grab a protrusion sticking out from the pineapple and peel it off with a wedge of fruit attached to it. Now, you have a fresh piece of pineapple, and you could then dispose of the peel.
Picking the Right Pineapple
You want a golden yellow pineapple with a sweet, tropical aroma at the base.
In a Yahoo Life article, Melissa Mackay, Vice President of Marketing at OU kosher-certified Del Monte North America, gave insight into how to tell if a pineapple is ripe. She says, “Smell the base of the fruit to check for a sweet, tropical aroma. If there’s no smell, it’s probably a little underripe.” But she says that “if the smell is fermented or sour, the pineapple may be overripe or starting to spoil.”
In terms of color, she advises to “look out for pineapples that are mostly golden yellow in color. A little green is OK, but an all-green pineapple will more than likely be way too tart. If you notice that the base of the fruit is beginning to turn dark orange, the fruit is probably verging on overripe.”
Beracha On Pineapple
Because pineapples grow on low plants rather than trees, the appropriate beracha is Borei Pri Ha’adama.
It’s true that pineapple sounds like a fruit, but it grows on a plant. Therefore, the OU holds that the proper beracha is Borei Pri Ha’adama. Interestingly, based on certain other considerations, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, zt”l, from Israel, held the beracha was Borei Pri Ha’etz.
OU Kosher Recipe for Pineapple Avocado Salsa
https://oukosher.org/recipes/pineapple-avocado-salsa-pareve/