make it a little more manageable I'm gonna lay it on its flat side and I'm gonna peel it I'm not too worried about the seeds getting on my board the seeds are actually edible I wouldn't say they're delicious but they kind of like remind me a little bit of a bland caviar and you get rid of all the skin I'm gonna put this one aside for now the seeds I'm gonna put into a bowl I'm gonna pull this over to the edge cut this in half open her up and then you just get your bowl scrape your seeds and pulp out and you can do this pretty much however you want you can slice it cut into large dice and that's how you cut a pie hi this is a pineapple and this is how you cut a pineapple we have a couple of different ways of doing this but this is the way that I would do it take my pineapple take the top and the bottom off I lay it on the flat side and I'm just gonna peel away this the skin I make sure that I go deep enough to get all these little eyes out so get most of the eyes off I take the pineapple I split it right down the middle split right down the middle again and I get into quarters and right down here in the middle of the pineapple is really fibrous and kind of woody what I'll do is I'll lay it it's on its side and take out that Center core so once you get that core out you kind of make it into some nice slices I have it nice and flat here really nice beautiful slice platter here's another way to cut a pineapple and if you're going to serve the pineapple on maybe a buffet or something that you want a little more visual this is the other way you can do it you take the pineapple and you're gonna cut it directly in half with the skin on are you gonna go all the way through the top of the pineapple as well okay it looks really pretty like that and then you're gonna quarter it all the way through try not to stab yourself I'm gonna lay it on its side and take out most of the core I'm gonna take off the end and then we're gonna cut it not all the way through you can you do with a paring knife or a chef's knife we're gonna cut it almost all the way through and then we're gonna cut it down this side and then down this side so that they pop out and that's the way you can cut a pineapple for like a buffet or something that you're gonna serve and make it look pretty this is a cantaloupe and this is how you cut a cantaloupe and a professional kitchen you always want to get things flat this is round it rolls around our board so what I'm gonna first do is cut our ends off and then I'm gonna peel it with my knife follow the contour of the cantaloupe get all the skin off you don't want any of that green pith it's not bad for you you're not gonna get sick from it but it just doesn't taste really good it's just kind of bland and plain follow the contour so you get that nice cantaloupe shape we're gonna cut it in half and then we're gonna remove all the seeds and we're just going to scrape the seeds out put on its flat side you can cut these little ends off those are snacks for you as the chef and you could slice it if you're going to do a fruit or you can just cut it into slices eat it like that or entice it that's how I cut a cantaloupe this is a pomelo it's a close cousin to the grapefruit to oranges it's a citrus fruit I take the top and the bottom off make it a little bit of a score not all the way through but just to break the skin skin can be used for candying but the skin and the pith tend to be used in the pomelo as well as the fruit crack it open you got this really kind of cool Sarlacc pit alien look to it I think you're just gonna peel off these little nodes I've seen different vodkas flavored with pomelo it almost has kind of a savory flavor but it does smell a little more like air freshener than something you'd really want to eat so this is a pumpkin this is classically what people use for jack-o'-lanterns I'm just gonna whack this sucker in half okay I'm just gonna cut the stem right off and then I'm just gonna cut it directly in half and I'm gonna kind of do what I call the ax murderer