Prep Solutions Single Stainless Steel Pineapple Corer & Slicer

It took two or three days to deliver this item, and given the holiday season volume, I expected that. There was a great deal at my local grocery store for fresh pineapples for $0.77. I bought 3 of them the first day and carved one of them and realized that this one pineapple had the same amount as 3 to 5 cans of it which sell for about $2.25 each. So, I went back on Christmas Eve and bought 12 more of them. Assuming that each pineapple produces 4 cans @ $2.25 each, my purchase of 15 fresh pineapples are worth about $140 of the canned product. And, I only paid $11 for 15 pineapples. So, I have all of these pineapples that needed to be carved and cored and de-seeded. I tried doing it the hard way, but getting the seeds out is way too hard. So, I bought this corer-slicer. I just now tried it out, and it worked in about 1 minute. It's a little effort to push it in while turning it, but it's not that bad. Once you push it all the way that it will go, it stops when it hits bottom. Then, you pull it out. The result is a helix of pineapple slices ready for immediate use or for storage. There have been critics that say that a lot is wasted on the sides because the blade should be a larger diameter. This blade is 3.25 inches diameter. The bottom of my pineapple measures about 5.25 inches. However, the top diameter is much smaller. Because of the oval shape, this 3.25 inch blade seems to do the best job. As a matter of fact, I just looked inside the cored pineapple that I just did, and the rest of it on the sides are where the seeds begin. So, this tool got the best of the fruit and bypassed all of the seeds. This is a great product for the price, and I would buy it again.

It works great, better than I expected. The only problem I had was with mis-shaped pineapples. I'll be careful to pick out pineapples that are not leaning to one side in the future.