Donald's lessons of "S#!& you don't learn in school"

I learned a quick way to cut up and tear artisan lettuce.

I was setting up my cutting board by the sink, when I noticed Donald, our first cook, sit down on a bucket and observe what I was doing. I didn't think much of it, and set to cutting up my lettuce.
Soon after he came over, grabbed a head of lettuce, and slammed it down on the cutting board. This frightened me, as I have seem him have a fit of anger before, when my fruit cart was in his way (more on this later) and I was afraid I did something to upset him. Until I noticed that the core popped right out of the lettuce, without using a knife. "And since you are not using a knife, your lettuce will not bruise and go rusty as quickly."

(Check out this 20 second video to fully understand)

Later on I was cutting up blue cheese. Before I went to slice the wheel, Donald came by again and pointed out the holes in the bottom of the wheel. These holes went all the way through, and seemed to be the start of all the blue veins. Or should I say green. When you first cut open blue cheese, it isn't blue, but green. It is the oxidation that changes the green to the familiar blue. This is created by needling, which is poking the cheese with holes so that air can be ventilated through, and the mould can be introduced.


While I stood there cutting pineapple, I thought out loud, who eats pineapple, besides humans?