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Hey guys, I'm Talia Chai and welcome to Real Food Live
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And today I'm going to show you a fancy little knife skill, how to dice a pineapple
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Really really simple guys, not much to it, but follow along and you will always feel
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confident when you are in the fruit section. You can just pick one of these babies up and not be intimidated
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All you need is a bowl and a knife. So I'm going to lay the pineapple down on its side, cut off the top, which I think looks
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really pretty. Kind of maybe you could use it as decoration, I don't know, get creative
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Cut off the bottom. And now I stand it up vertically, just like that
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This is the easy part. All I'm going to do is I'm going to take my knife and I'm going to score around the edges
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removing the skin and then any of those little circular kind of burrs, those fibrous things
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that if someone doesn't cut those off, they kind of burn your mouth and cut the inside
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of your mouth. We don't want to do that. So we'll get rid of as much as we can in this first cut and then I like to go through, look
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around and see if I missed any and get them in the second cut
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Now summer is approaching, so it's pineapple time, right? Smoothies, daiquiris, blended everything or just to snack on
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So now I'm just going to spin it around and look, see if I missed anything
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I see a little green fibrous bit there that can go away
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See what else? One over here. So that's all you're doing, just cleaning it up a little bit and that's it
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Now we know there's that fibrous core in the middle, so now I'm going to cut, whoop, slippery
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I'm going to cut slabs around the core. So as close to the core as I can, just cutting around it though because we're not going to
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be eating that part. All right, there we go. So this is the core over here
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Discard that. And now I have four cute little pineapple slabs. So this is really the easy part
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All I'm going to do is cut it lengthwise like this and then crosswise, just the way you
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would dice anything. Look at that, gorgeous chunks. This smells so good
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This is a really nice ripe pineapple. A little trick that I like to use when I'm in the market or the grocery store is to smell
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the bottom of the pineapple and it should smell exactly like a ripe pineapple
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I don't know how else to describe it, but as long as the bottom smells super ripe, you
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know you've got a good one. If it doesn't smell like anything, it is not ripe
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That's my little tip for selecting pineapples. Our last little slab, done
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There you have it, beautifully diced pineapple. And if you have any extra, a little tip of mine would be to put it in an airtight container
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and store it in the freezer and then you can throw frozen pineapple chunks into anything
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that you're making blended. It will be so, so, so delicious. So thanks for watching guys and I will see you in the next video
