Is this really how to eat a pineapple? FEMAIL puts viral technique to the test with VERY messy results
- Video shared on TikTok shows snacker pulling pineapple pieces from the outside
- It went viral after Lewis McCluskey, 21, from Middlesbrough, shared it on Twitter
- Video shows pulling at skin breaks off triangular piece with no need for chopping
- The hack blew viewers' minds on Twitter - but we weren't impressed
Preparing and eating a pineapple is a notoriously messy business, but a video which went viral yesterday claimed to be the answer to our prayers.
The footage, shared on TikTok by user Dillon Roberts, showed a snacker casually pulling out chunks of the juicy fruit piece-by-piece after chopping off the spiky top by tugging at the skin towards the centre.
The clever hack, which went viral after it was later shared on Twitter by Lewis McCluskey, a 21-year-old biomedical sciences student from Middlesbrough, suggested you can enjoy munching on pyramid-shaped pieces without the need for chopping.
So have we REALLY been eating pineapple wrong all these years? Femail's Hayley Richardson put the hack to the test to see if it really is as easy as it looks....
The clever hack, shared on TikTok by user Dillon Roberts, showed a snacker casually pulling out chunks of the juicy fruit piece-by-piece after chopping off the spiky top by tugging at the skin towards the centre
Femail's Hayley Richardson decided to put the trick to the test to see whether it was as easy as it looked - and a less messy way of enjoying the fruit
For me, no fruit salad is complete without a healthy portion of pineapple. But I'm often put off buying it if it's not pre-prepared.
Chopping up the citrus fruit takes considerable time and effort - and I always feel like I end up wasting half the fruit when shaving off the rough skin with a knife.
I was eager to try this new 'mind-blowing' method, and after whipping off the leafy top I set to work.
The video went viral after it was shared on Twitter by Lewis McCluskey, a 21-year-old biomedical sciences student from Middlesbrough
Or at least, I tried to. Admittedly I wasn't working with the ripest pineapple, but it still oozed sticky juice all over my hands as I tried in vain to pull off a pyramid chunk from the outside.
I dug in my thumbnail (which was both mega unhygienic and bad for my manicure) to try to release a chunk, but in the end I gave up and used the knife to help release the fruit.
Hayley battled to pull a segment of pineapple away from the skin, but it was hard work - and pretty messy as well
In response to the video, one Twitter user explained that pineapples are actually a collection of fused berries, which makes this technique of pulling away individual pieces possible.
He wrote: 'As the fruit grows, the individual berries coalesce together. Each "eye" is a single individual berry.
'They may seem fused together, but if you start from the top, you can pluck each eye, one by one.'
I am yet to be convinced that it's as easy as all that.
Hayley was not impressed by the results. Rather than a tasty pyramid of pineapple, we was left with stumpy chunks, an aching thumb and sticky fingers
As I tugged all I got was small, stumpy pieces, making it a pretty unsatisfying way to snack on the fruit - and a time-consuming way to prepare it for a salad.
I'm baffled as to how the person in the video managed to pull out such long pieces, as even if my pineapple was riper, the hard inner core makes it pretty impossible to get a similar result.
I tried the trick with two different pineapples, but still had no luck. I'll be sticking to my tried and tested method going forward - if only for the sake of my manicure!
