How to Core Fruits and Vegetables

Coring is a process that removes the core or centre of various fruits, such as apples, pears and pineapple; and vegetables, such as lettuce and cabbage. Coring removes small seeds or tough and woody centres.

Coring can be done with a sectioning tool which both cores and sections the fruit at the same time. This works well with apples and pears.

With an apple corer which slides down through the centre of the fruit removing the entire core but leaving the rest of the fruit completely intact.

Or you can use a knife to remove the core. Start by cutting off the stalk of the fruit, then halving and then quartering the fruit, then remove the core with one diagonal cut so you’re left with a quarter that’s completely core free.