Summary: Watch an expert chef break down and section a pineapple in this free online cooking video.
Louis Ortiz is a professional chef instructor at a culinary institute. He has been working in the culinary industry for 10 years.read more
"Now we are going to show you how to clean and carve and actually break down a pineapple. I am going to go ahead and take off the top. Just make a nice even parallel with your cutting surface and we are going to cut this remaining piece into quarters. Now that I have a foot it will be a little less dangerous to cut on. So I am going to cut straight down through the middle of the core into 2 halves and I am going to cut down the middle of the core this way so that we can make quarters. That is the actual breakdown of a full pineapple. "