Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I absolutely love Fresh Sweet Pineapple, as does the rest of my family. I had purchased several whole pineapples and went through the painstaking process of cutting it up.. miserable is what that is. So, then we went to purchase the pre-cut pieces from our grocer and I'd find more and more pieces with the inedible core in the batch so we stopped buying it and gave up... until Del Monte published a coupon on coupons dot com with a deal for pineapples, buy two save $1.25, and our grocer had a sale on pineapples 2 for $2.50, we brought home 2 pineapples for $1.25!! I couldn't pass that up, was a fantastic deal!! but then I had to cut them up and I put that off until I figured out a better way to cut them up.. I went to amazon.com later that night and I looked at what my options were and found this little guy! I ordered it and with my 2 day shipping I got it in time to cut them both up.. It literally took a minute and a half to cut one of up, I was so excited! We can have fresh pineapple again!!! It is actually very very neat how this works, it does the corkscrew type drive into the fruit slicing a perfect circular chunk out of the center of the pineapple, sliced into about 1/4 inch deep circles. *You might want to do this in a clean sink, there is a lot of juice that will come out of your fruit* 1) First you'll slice the cap off the pineapple 2) Connect your handle to the top of the Slicer 3) Locate the Core and center the core cut out over the top of the core 4) Put Slight to moderate pressure and twist clockwise, fast or slow, doesn't matter, it will cut the same. 5) Once you've hit the bottom of the fruit you'll know, the sound will change, or you'll break through the bottom with your blade, continue to turn clockwise and pull rather than push and you'll pull out a perfectly circular hollow tube of pineapple. (The core and the Exterior of the pineapple will be left in the fruit in most cases, in a few cases you might end up removing the core as well, don't worry about that yet) 6) Take the Handle off the Cutter and place the dicer/wedger over the metal on top of a cutting board, or protected surface, otherwise the teeth on the bottom of the blade will cut into whatever you place it on 7) SPEED MATTERS HERE: Quickly and swiftly press down as hard as you're able on the dicer/wedger and it will cut your pieces into chunks - just like you buy in a can of pineapple. Don't forget the remaining juice in the cored out fruit if you like that, if not you, maybe your kids or husband, my son jumped after it and so did my husband. ~ If your core didn't come out when you pulled it from the fruit then take a wooden spoon or other item and stick in the NOT JAGGED EDGE of the slicer and gently push out, not to fast as not to jam your hand into the end of even the unsharp end. Be extremely careful, this item is sharp and metal. NUTRITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: Pineapple, raw (from pineapplefacts dot info) Pineapple is an excellent source of vitamin C and manganese. It's a very good source of vitamin B1. It's a good source of vitamin B6, copper, magnesium, and dietary fiber. Bromelain is is a proteolytic enzyme (enzymes that digest protein) found in pineapple, and to a greater extent in pineapple stems. Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) Carbohydrates 12.63 g Dietary fiber 1.4 g Fat 0.12 g Protein 0.54 g Thiamine (Vit. B1) 0.079 mg Riboflavin (Vit. B2) 0.031 mg Niacin (Vit. B3) 0.489 mg Pantothenic acid (B5) 0.205 mg Vitamin B6 0.110 mg Folate (Vit. B9) 15 'g Vitamin C 36.2 mg Calcium 13 mg Iron 0.28 mg Magnesium 12 mg Phosphorus 8 mg Potassium 115 mg Zinc 0.10 mg I would recommend this item all day long, in the end this will last longer and you should find it much more durable than the plastic version, even in the same brand. I hope to have helped you with your purchasing decision. Thanks for reading!