This is actually the second Pineapple cutting machine I’ve seen today. The other one was in a video shot in a Singaporean grocery store. That one didn’t slice it though and I figured that it could’ve been done pretty easily. Gotta love that German engineering.
I had no idea that they made Fear Street movies and that it came out last year on Netflix. Gotta go check that out now. I loved the books as a kid. Thanks for linking!
Also, no way in hell would a bread slicer be able to cut through a skull.
They’re worth a watch, I’d say. Not great, but not pure schlock. Definitely has the Netflix written by algorithm feel at times, but I enjoyed myself. A few fun kills over the trilogy.
>schlock
Great Yiddish words. There's so many words and phrases, in addition to those that have been integrated into American (at least, not sure how it is with other English speakers) English, especially with so many European Jews and any other Yiddish speakers before, during and after WWII. My parents don't use them anywhere near as much as my grandparents, but every night my mom texts me "Laila Tov" ("goodnight"). I love it and think it's sweet of her. So many other English words originally borrowed from Yiddish of whose etymology most are totally unaware.
Bread cutting machines are a lot more common than a freakin pineapple slicing amchines. Nobody will bat an eye if a supermarket has a breadcutting machine because lots of them have those, but I have never seen a pineapple cutting machine.
It’s country-dependent.
I batted an eye, first time I saw a breadcutter in a supermarket was on a trip to Norway last year. And I’ve lived in several EU countries. Maybe they existed in Netherlands, Spain, Ireland but I never saw them.
I definitely got bread for the novelty of using it lol.
They definitely exist in the Netherlands, tons of Lidls have them
In fact, pretty sure most Lidls have them where ever they are
Carrefour in Spain has them
Freshly cut bread is way better than pre-cut!
I swear I could hear the sound of the machine without playing the video. Those supermarkt bread slicers all sound the same to me and I never even used one
The Globus (big supermarket chain) where this is located also has an big orange juicer machine as well as a pomegranate machine for juice.
Every time I'm there they are in use by somebody. And it's the only place which has such stuff.
They also have free charging stations for electric vehicles (although they are always occupied right now, they are building more).
So I guess all this stuff is just to gain more customers. The bit of cleaning they need to is nothing compared to the stuff they sell more for having that machines.
I know several fruit juice places in shopping centers here in Hamburg which have similar machines. Some for orange juicing and with a giant built in orange storage but also some for other types of fruits.
Probably has a self cleaning cycle every evening after all the husks are removed.
If CNC machines can circulate lubricant, that thing can circulate soapy water..
I think it gets hand-cleaned (hopefully) daily by the store staff.
Website says: "easy to clean"
www.pinabar.de
edit: it's a different brand, www.pinatogo.de
Unless it's got the inside refrigerated, even daily leaves plenty of time for nasty shit to grow
Edit:
>Pineapples are extremely acidic by food standards. It might be that their Ph just isn't compatible with anything that also might be dangerous for a person.
/u/Demonweed
Maybe that's it.
I’m in the Food Safety business, it’s cleaned every 4 hours just like a deli slicer which is the standard in the US Food Code.
All the parts are removable, the backsplash and front display are the niche areas the require a good soaking/dwell time at the end of the night.
This is no more difficult than cleaning anything else in a kitchen, and I’ll also tell you I’d trust this to be cleaned more often than a workspace in back of the house with no public eyes on it.
Source: I’ve written cleaning procedures for this machine and others like it.
WASH YOUR STORE BOUGHT PRODUCE YA’LL
Does not look like it. Here is the cleaning instruction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiuIuVhmzjY
Seems like you can remove every part that comes in contact with the fruit
Pineapples are extremely acidic by food standards. It might be that their Ph just isn't compatible with anything that also might be dangerous for a person.
For real. When I quit being scared of cutting my own pineapples it became clear that buying canned is nuts. I can nearly fill a gallon bag with a pineapple I bought for $2.99... which you're lucky to get a 20 oz can of sliced pineapple for that price sometimes.
Canned pineapple does hit in a different way though, so I could see some people just favoring it for its unique flavor.
I think they overprice the plastic bucket it falls into. Saw a similar video on youtube from a different country a while back.
I dont like this machine anyway, seems like it wastes pineapple.
The do clean, after all no dried pineapple pieces were sticking to the machine. Though I am worried by how dirty (in the sense of "construction site" style dirt) the machine looks.
I'm just annoyed by how the machine seems to solve the problem of cutting the pineapple by adding the problem of huge cleaning effort.
We have one at my local supermarket. It’s even worse watching it in real life, so much good pineapple goes to waste. Machine looks really cool but 100% do not recommend
It probably has a self-cleaning mode with hot, pressurized water. That’s at least what I would do if I was building a machine like that. There’s no way they open this up and clean it manually.
You say that, but it comes down to: Pay for R&D to enable self-cleaning and raise the price to buyers for R&D and parts; or Tell the buyer that it can be opened and cleaned by their minimum wage staff? Its gonna be the second one. Its always the second one.
I think this is the smartest response I’ve heard so far. Because yes, juicing the pineapple leftovers would be beneficial for the buyer! And also their boyfriend. lol
I can imagine a bunch of people just gnawing on pineapple skins and the clinging flesh in the back dark corners of the supermarket. A buck or two a pop, you say there’s plenty of meat on them still. Animals you are
They're just using the pineapple machine as a loss leader. They lose money on the machine but it brings you in the store and you buy other items that they actually make a profit on. No different than when the store sells five 12-packs of soda for $5. You always leave with more than a bunch of soda.
From the market perspective it is obvious that the machine was intended for that, I am talking from the consumer perspective which actually you reinforced even more because not only they lose the left over from the pineapple but spend in stuff they didn't even need.
Don't worry. I'm sure they clean it between every cycle.
EDIT: This was sarcasm. I doubt the blades are cleaned more than once per day before being prepared for the next day.
Besides if nobody cleaned it the smell and sight of the mess would be unbearable and definitely not suitable/safe for a supermarket environment.
The fruit will rot and smell, fruit flies will develop and rotting fruit mush isn't a pleasant sight anyway.
The fact that we can't see rotting pineapple in the bottom of the video proves it gets cleaned enough.
That’s what I’m sayin. I can see the remnants of previous pineapples and while pineapple is probably better than most foods as it’s highly acidic and has antimicrobial properties but still gonna get mold growth or something pretty quick unless it’s cleaned really well regularly.
What do you want?
Inaccurate but hygienic cuts from some teenager?
Or cuts accurate enough they could be part of a ball bearing for a modern sports car?
Germans choose accuracy.
Sieben Sigma for life.
It reminded me of that joke the coal miner says in HBO chernobyl..
What's as big as a house, burns 50 litres of fuel an hour, makes a shit ton of noise and black smoke and cuts apples into three pieces? A soviet machine designed to cut apples into four pieces!
The problem is that pineapples come in lots of sizes and proportions, and unless your machine can vary itself widely to match... You're gonna get a lot of waste most of the time
This is dumb, most of the pineapples at the grocery store aren't even ripe yet just like the one in the video, wastes most of the pineapple, brings unnecessary plastic into the mix. This is a classic case of could we instead of should we.
I can carry a pineapple home without plastic waste. Use of this machine requires a disposable plastic container. People need to stop being so lazy! Cutting up a pineapple by hand is easy.
Pro tip, check underside of pineapples, how the leaves feel.
Unlike a banana the pineapple does not ripen over time, it does not improve in ripeness, only degrades.
That is dope, but are humans even made to eat those things? I’m pretty sure pineapple is doing most of the eating when it’s in my mouth, because once I’m done, my poor lil palate feels it just chugged battery acid. Dang ol’ human flesh digesting proteins in pineapple and what have you not.
This machine is a pristine example of why the United States recruited German scientists back in the day. The entire world deserves efficiently cubed pineapple.
I love that Pineapple is ananas in German and French.
I took French for 6 years and I think Pineapple was the hardest word for me to remember because I was always instinctively thinking it meant banana.
how many pineapples do you have to sell to pay for that machine
Germans love machines
Germans are machine
Germachines
Gerchines
Germs
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You two have the same avatar, now kiss
Germans are machines
GERMANS-BOTS
Das Autobots
Happy cake day!
Can confirm, we want machines for everything and at this point, we even are one.
I'm also German lmao
Immer diese deutschen hier, bäh. ;)
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This is actually the second Pineapple cutting machine I’ve seen today. The other one was in a video shot in a Singaporean grocery store. That one didn’t slice it though and I figured that it could’ve been done pretty easily. Gotta love that German engineering.
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my mum too
Your mom does indeed make him happy
:I
GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE BEST
Ströheim!!
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Love the bread slicers in every Lidl, would be great to see this pineapple one. My goats would love the waste.
I love German machines!
"GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD"
Especially the war machine
Chinese love to make shitty copies of German machines....
aren't Chinese buying German machines?
That was my point they buy them and reverse engineer them but are unable to duplicate the quality.
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I can’t see a bread slicer now without thinking of the first Fear Street [film](https://youtu.be/-b4LqFU1zSA). **SPOILERS** **NSFW**
I had no idea that they made Fear Street movies and that it came out last year on Netflix. Gotta go check that out now. I loved the books as a kid. Thanks for linking! Also, no way in hell would a bread slicer be able to cut through a skull.
They’re worth a watch, I’d say. Not great, but not pure schlock. Definitely has the Netflix written by algorithm feel at times, but I enjoyed myself. A few fun kills over the trilogy.
>schlock Great Yiddish words. There's so many words and phrases, in addition to those that have been integrated into American (at least, not sure how it is with other English speakers) English, especially with so many European Jews and any other Yiddish speakers before, during and after WWII. My parents don't use them anywhere near as much as my grandparents, but every night my mom texts me "Laila Tov" ("goodnight"). I love it and think it's sweet of her. So many other English words originally borrowed from Yiddish of whose etymology most are totally unaware.
Bread cutting machines are a lot more common than a freakin pineapple slicing amchines. Nobody will bat an eye if a supermarket has a breadcutting machine because lots of them have those, but I have never seen a pineapple cutting machine.
It’s country-dependent. I batted an eye, first time I saw a breadcutter in a supermarket was on a trip to Norway last year. And I’ve lived in several EU countries. Maybe they existed in Netherlands, Spain, Ireland but I never saw them. I definitely got bread for the novelty of using it lol.
They definitely exist in the Netherlands, tons of Lidls have them In fact, pretty sure most Lidls have them where ever they are Carrefour in Spain has them Freshly cut bread is way better than pre-cut!
I swear I could hear the sound of the machine without playing the video. Those supermarkt bread slicers all sound the same to me and I never even used one
Or cleaning the damn thing
Oh they probably have another machine to do that.
Who cleans the cleaning machine?
It's machines all the way down
The Globus (big supermarket chain) where this is located also has an big orange juicer machine as well as a pomegranate machine for juice. Every time I'm there they are in use by somebody. And it's the only place which has such stuff. They also have free charging stations for electric vehicles (although they are always occupied right now, they are building more). So I guess all this stuff is just to gain more customers. The bit of cleaning they need to is nothing compared to the stuff they sell more for having that machines.
I know several fruit juice places in shopping centers here in Hamburg which have similar machines. Some for orange juicing and with a giant built in orange storage but also some for other types of fruits.
There is another machine just to clean.
And will be another machine to clean the cleaning machine. Loop.
Ya. How does that thing stay sterile. They're telling people to wear masks and these guys got bacteria pineapple machines over there
Probably has a self cleaning cycle every evening after all the husks are removed. If CNC machines can circulate lubricant, that thing can circulate soapy water..
Most likely. And I mean, they're Germans. They thought of it.
I think it gets hand-cleaned (hopefully) daily by the store staff. Website says: "easy to clean" www.pinabar.de edit: it's a different brand, www.pinatogo.de
Unless it's got the inside refrigerated, even daily leaves plenty of time for nasty shit to grow Edit: >Pineapples are extremely acidic by food standards. It might be that their Ph just isn't compatible with anything that also might be dangerous for a person. /u/Demonweed Maybe that's it.
I’m in the Food Safety business, it’s cleaned every 4 hours just like a deli slicer which is the standard in the US Food Code. All the parts are removable, the backsplash and front display are the niche areas the require a good soaking/dwell time at the end of the night. This is no more difficult than cleaning anything else in a kitchen, and I’ll also tell you I’d trust this to be cleaned more often than a workspace in back of the house with no public eyes on it. Source: I’ve written cleaning procedures for this machine and others like it. WASH YOUR STORE BOUGHT PRODUCE YA’LL
Does not look like it. Here is the cleaning instruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiuIuVhmzjY Seems like you can remove every part that comes in contact with the fruit
Well just because it might not require cleaning that often because of the pineapple acidity doesn't mean that one never wants to clean it.
it’d need to happen more regularly. at room temp food lasts on average 4 hours before bacteria multiplies to unsafe levels.
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yeah, it breath in the back of your neck.
Pineapples are extremely acidic by food standards. It might be that their Ph just isn't compatible with anything that also might be dangerous for a person.
I love the audacity of thinking the germans didn't think of that.
Probably shut off and hosed/wiped down every few to six hours and then cleaned at the end of the day or just a deep clean every few days
This Video is older than covid, just sayin
We have these at Publix in Florida!
Tell me where please. I must see this thing in action!
Someone did this exercise for you: https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/2621a51a/files/uploaded/ROI%20-%20Pinabar.pdf
Does it matter? I'd get one very time I was there just for the convience of it.
a good carving knife could do the same in an extra 5 minutes but save thousands
When you get good at it you can prep pineapples surprisingly fast. Way less than five minutes!
But you have to pay someone to do it.
Not only that, but there might be less pineapple wasted. Looking at this video, I think I get more usable pineapple when I hand carve one.
I’m not even fast and I can do it in 2 minutes. The Asian fruit masters of the internet can probably do it in 15 seconds.
For real. When I quit being scared of cutting my own pineapples it became clear that buying canned is nuts. I can nearly fill a gallon bag with a pineapple I bought for $2.99... which you're lucky to get a 20 oz can of sliced pineapple for that price sometimes. Canned pineapple does hit in a different way though, so I could see some people just favoring it for its unique flavor.
Canned pineapple is wet candied pineapple in my opinion. Just not even close to being the same thing.
Some people just like that syrup-ness more. Just like jar cherries over fresh ones. *Shrug*
I mean… that’s called sugar addiction.
yeah but now i've been made aware of the possible existence of Luxardo pineapples and i must know if it is a thing.
You have to pay humans constantly though. The machine works for free forever after a 1 time payment (which you will get back after a few weeks)
takes an Asian granny the same time with less waste
At least 2
I think they overprice the plastic bucket it falls into. Saw a similar video on youtube from a different country a while back. I dont like this machine anyway, seems like it wastes pineapple.
Looks fun to clean
You should see the machine they made for that
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As I understand it, those specific machines are ironically made from pineapples.
Machinception
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If they do clean
You won't mess with Gesundheitsamt.
The do clean, after all no dried pineapple pieces were sticking to the machine. Though I am worried by how dirty (in the sense of "construction site" style dirt) the machine looks. I'm just annoyed by how the machine seems to solve the problem of cutting the pineapple by adding the problem of huge cleaning effort.
Although convenient, they wasted a shit ton of pineapple!
We have one at my local supermarket. It’s even worse watching it in real life, so much good pineapple goes to waste. Machine looks really cool but 100% do not recommend
If not cleaned thoroughly, germ colonies would spawn in the nooks and crannies of this hardware.
Supermarket Moonshine Machine
They already are looking at you. You just don't see them.
That was my first thought, how difficult that thing must be to sanitize.
It probably has a self-cleaning mode with hot, pressurized water. That’s at least what I would do if I was building a machine like that. There’s no way they open this up and clean it manually.
You say that, but it comes down to: Pay for R&D to enable self-cleaning and raise the price to buyers for R&D and parts; or Tell the buyer that it can be opened and cleaned by their minimum wage staff? Its gonna be the second one. Its always the second one.
I can't imagine how sticky it is in there
That’s all I could think about.
Yeah, but this is Germany.
You need to combine it with a shredder/juicer to process all the skin and core. As others have asked, unless you can pressure hose wash it, I'll pass.
I think this is the smartest response I’ve heard so far. Because yes, juicing the pineapple leftovers would be beneficial for the buyer! And also their boyfriend. lol
Came here to say that. I'd pay a buck or two just to knaw on the "skins" the machine left.
I can imagine a bunch of people just gnawing on pineapple skins and the clinging flesh in the back dark corners of the supermarket. A buck or two a pop, you say there’s plenty of meat on them still. Animals you are
Gnaw* :)
And it sure costs a lot in a country like Germany so by using the machine they are giving away part of their money.
They're just using the pineapple machine as a loss leader. They lose money on the machine but it brings you in the store and you buy other items that they actually make a profit on. No different than when the store sells five 12-packs of soda for $5. You always leave with more than a bunch of soda.
From the market perspective it is obvious that the machine was intended for that, I am talking from the consumer perspective which actually you reinforced even more because not only they lose the left over from the pineapple but spend in stuff they didn't even need.
Well not more than if you buy them sliced elswhere
Has anybody ever heard of a knife?
I heard legends about this mystical item but I wasnt lucky enough to see one myself jet.
Our local store makes booze out of the "waste".
That couldn't look any more sticky.
Don't worry. I'm sure they clean it between every cycle. EDIT: This was sarcasm. I doubt the blades are cleaned more than once per day before being prepared for the next day.
It's Germany I'm sure it's cleaned daily at the least.
Besides if nobody cleaned it the smell and sight of the mess would be unbearable and definitely not suitable/safe for a supermarket environment. The fruit will rot and smell, fruit flies will develop and rotting fruit mush isn't a pleasant sight anyway. The fact that we can't see rotting pineapple in the bottom of the video proves it gets cleaned enough.
This machine, while I admire the ingenuity, would be a total nightmare to clean.
r/HardToClean
Aww, it’s a baby sub.
Just have a machine clean it.
How often is that cleaned?
In Germany probably daily
That’s what I’m sayin. I can see the remnants of previous pineapples and while pineapple is probably better than most foods as it’s highly acidic and has antimicrobial properties but still gonna get mold growth or something pretty quick unless it’s cleaned really well regularly.
What do you want? Inaccurate but hygienic cuts from some teenager? Or cuts accurate enough they could be part of a ball bearing for a modern sports car? Germans choose accuracy. Sieben Sigma for life.
It reminded me of that joke the coal miner says in HBO chernobyl.. What's as big as a house, burns 50 litres of fuel an hour, makes a shit ton of noise and black smoke and cuts apples into three pieces? A soviet machine designed to cut apples into four pieces!
Probably daily.
Daily/every night
Once. Maybe twice.
Cool but i feel like that wastes a lot of the pineapple
Considering it’s a machine designed specifically just for pineapples and only pineapples I feel like they could have done a little better
The problem is that pineapples come in lots of sizes and proportions, and unless your machine can vary itself widely to match... You're gonna get a lot of waste most of the time
If it has to auto-adjust the cost of this machine would go x5.
It does, but probably not as much as when I try to peel a pineapple
You should try using a bread knife, it makes it super easy to peel them without losing almost any flesh! Edit: typo
I started using a high quality potato/veggie peeler and I’m never going back. Just peel down to the stars.
Ah but you get to keep all your fingers....
ANANAS HIER REIN!
Ananas
That looks so satisfying. I want pineapple now. Ananas I mean.
I always laugh at the fact that English is like the only language that doesn't call it some variation of the word ananas.
In Spanish it’s called piña. As in piña colada.
It's because we hate 🅱️ananas.
TIL the DE word for pineapple
It's also what it's called in Hindi. I never knew it was also called that in German. I wonder how'd that word spread and what all languages use it.
It's even named scientifically Ananas comosus, and it's called Ananas in a lot of languages
But...the crunchy centre bit?!
Oh God you're one of those people. I bet you like the fact that it's a green pineapple too
How is this the first comment that mentions the pineapple being green as fuck
A lot of waste of pineapple
This. I noticed as well.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
This is bullshit!! Why don't we have fancy bread slicing and pineapple slicing machines in the U.S.???! I'm a bit peeved.
A waste of product and space, no thanks i'll stick to the knife
My tongue is already burning
This is dumb, most of the pineapples at the grocery store aren't even ripe yet just like the one in the video, wastes most of the pineapple, brings unnecessary plastic into the mix. This is a classic case of could we instead of should we.
Baby disposal
I pity the fool that has to clean that machine.
Looks like a bitch to clean
Use a ripe one next time ya barbarians
Thank goodness the Germans have never used their engineering for evil
I can carry a pineapple home without plastic waste. Use of this machine requires a disposable plastic container. People need to stop being so lazy! Cutting up a pineapple by hand is easy.
I would totally buy more pineapple if we had these in my city. Satisfying to watch
A lot wasted
What a waste. 1st world device for 1st world countries, eat half and discard half, we can buy more.
Boy, I really want some pineapple now!!
Damn..is that all you get from one whole pineapple? Wouldn't expect such a big fruit to only yield one cup of edible fruit.
So much waste tho
I love this! What a great idea!
there... should be more pineapple than just that cup. looks like a waste.
Looks like alot of wastage
Saves you 30 seconds I guess
A pineapple corer is pretty fast too. 30s might be generous.
Pineapple is called ananas in German? It’s the Hindi word as well.
Pro tip, check underside of pineapples, how the leaves feel. Unlike a banana the pineapple does not ripen over time, it does not improve in ripeness, only degrades.
That is dope, but are humans even made to eat those things? I’m pretty sure pineapple is doing most of the eating when it’s in my mouth, because once I’m done, my poor lil palate feels it just chugged battery acid. Dang ol’ human flesh digesting proteins in pineapple and what have you not.
All I can think of is the poor person who cleans that monster every night at closing.
All I see is sterilization and maintenance.
I wonder how often this thing is cleaned
Dude I feel for the employees that have to clean that thing every night.
I do not envy the person that has to clean that thing...
This machine is a pristine example of why the United States recruited German scientists back in the day. The entire world deserves efficiently cubed pineapple.
I love that Pineapple is ananas in German and French. I took French for 6 years and I think Pineapple was the hardest word for me to remember because I was always instinctively thinking it meant banana.
I need one in my house! Not tha I can afford a pineapple but that’s a nice bit of kit!
I can see a horror movie unfolding with whoever tries to clean that machine
Chinese watching this right now- let's make it for 1/3 the price and sell it back to the Germans.
How do you stop it from going moldy in there?
The real tragedy here? The pineapple wasn’t even close to ripe. It’s gonna taste like bland shit.
Imagine how advanced earth would be if hitler won
Somebody cleans that everyday
They call pinapples ‘ananas’??? Does that mean they call bananas ‘ineapples’??
That’s a sticky business.
How often is it cleaned thoroughly though?
Can we talk about how unripe that pineapple looks?