Pineapple Cutting 101
 

How to Cut a Pineapple

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit

Pineapples (Ananas comosus) are best eaten fresh. It is easy to slice a pineapple at home rather than resorting to the pre-cut variety available in a can with additives and preservatives. Get fresh with a pineapple!

Steps

1. Choose a good quality pineapple. Use your sense of smell - the pineapple must smell sweet and fresh. If you detect an odor that suggests fermentation or there is no sweetness present, skip that pineapple. Also avoid pineapples that are bruised or mushy to the touch.
   
2. Place the pineapple on its side.
   
3. Cut the crown and the stem off of the pineapple.
   
4. Stand the pineapple up on one end. Slice the skin off from top to bottom. Leave as much flesh as possible remaining on the pineapple.
   
5. Remove the eye spots. Eye spots are on a diagonal on the pineapple. Cut a V-shaped groove along the diagonal line and remove a set of eye spots each cut. The remaining flesh is ready for cutting now.
   
6. Cut the pineapple. The type of cut depends on how you want to use the pineapple. You can choose from these cuts:
   
   • Cut pineapple circles. Simply cut the pineapple circle slices in a width suited for your needs. Core each circle slice after cutting.
     
   • Cut the pineapple into halves, then quarters for cubes or wedges. For each quarter, cut off the core that will be on its edge.
     
   
   
7. Add the pineapple to your recipe or meal. It is delicious eaten as it is with nothing added or you can add yogurt, whipped cream, crushed nuts etc. Or use it to make pineapple upside-down cake, as an addition to a meat dish or as a decoration atop a dessert.
   

Tips

• The white fibrous matter in the core tastes bitter but some people like this taste. It is safe to eat, and healthy (it contains antioxidants), but it may not be to your texture (tough), although the taste is mild and quite appealing.
  
• Pineapples are low in fat and cholesterol free. They contain vitamin C and trace essential nutrients. And they are brimful of great fiber.
  

Warnings

• Like always, exercise caution around knives.
  

Related wikiHows

• How to Grow a Pineapple
  
• How to Eat Cherries
  
• How to Make Pineapple Fritters
  
• How to Make a Pineapple Upside Down Cake
  
• How to Grow Dwarf Pineapples
  
• How to Tell if a Pineapple Is Ripe
  

Article provided by wikiHow, a wiki how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Cut a Pineapple. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.

Learn By The Drop has created some excellent tutorials for users getting started learning Drupal CMS

You can see more tutorials at:



http://learnbythedrop.com/gettingstarted

Labels: drupal, tutorials

Powerfull CMS gives us an excellent video tutorial for Drupal installations on godaddy

Related Reading:

Drupal Install

http://drupal.org/node/231371

Stadius.com gives a great tutorial on setting file permissions on Windows system.

In the UNIX/LINUX world we can just use 'chmod' to change the file permissions on a file with the standard ftp client.

Unfortunality, this is not so easy in the Windows world, for some reason M$ did not see it 'fit' to include CHMOD as a valid command in their ftp client.

But here are some free clients to help you get around that problem.


Read More...

Related Reading:

WinSCP Portable - Script Commands

Read More..

Ever have an audio file that you want to embed in a wordpress.org site?

Whether your just starting to blog, and/or podcast, you will eventually want to have one of those little audio players on your site, to allow people to listen easily.

One of the easy ways to do this is to use a little program called the "Pickle Player". The pickle player is a nice little app that alllows you to paste the location of your mp3 file and it gives you back some code to embed in your blog.

However, if you're on a wordpress.com blog this won't work. Wordpress does not allow the <embed> tag in posts, so instead you have to use a special wordpress code/tag as follows

[audio http://www.archive.org/download/BradDetcheveryAboutBWebCentral.com/aboutbwebcentral.mp3]

This will produce the following player





Ref: http://support.wordpress.com/audio/

Labels: audio-embed, blogger, blogging, web log

The folks over at commoncraft have brought us another of their awesome videos, helping the world understand things.

This one teaches us what Phising means, and why it is a dangerous thing to watch out for.

Enjoy