How to Pick Out a Pineapple

Video Transcript

"Today, we're going to talk about how to pick out a fresh pineapple. A lot of misconceptions with the pineapple. A lot of people touch it all over the place, squeeze it, talk to it, whatever, listen to it...nothing like that is going to tell you if it's ripe. There's really only one way to tell if it's ripe and that is to pull on these leaves on the top. Not from the outside right here, 'cause this is where it's going to be most green. You want to go from the top, right from the top, and if you just give a nice little tug on them like that, even the weight of the thing itself should be able to pull them out like that, you know, right from the top, just like that, come out really easy. That one is ripe. If they're going to be a little bit too much like that, that's not coming out, that one is probably not going to be quite as ripe. It's going to be a lot more rough if you were to cut this open. The one's that pull out, just like that, really easy, are going to be the ripest that you could find. It's going to be really nice and soft, not, not too soft, but it's going to be about the perfect pineapple, just as long as the tops come out like that really easy. Basically the only thing you can look for on a pineapple because there's not going to be a lot of bruising or scabs that you can see anyway on them because that skin is so thick, you know. So, the only way to tell is to pull from the top like that, and they're coming off so these one's are pretty ripe. Good to go. There's a few here that are not coming out, so that one's not good to go. You want to go with the ones that pull right out of the top."