Ha I also just finished watching the first season. Based on the time you posted this there’s a good chance we were watching it at the same time.

I’ve always just left it attached to the main part. My family’s always sliced the pineapple into disks then cut those into 4ths. You end up with a small part of core per piece.

If you want to get more out of pineapples did you can use the rinds? It’s a fermented drink called tepache. It’s the rinds of a pineapple, water, and a type of brown sugar called piloncillo. I’ve never heard of using the core in it but I dont see why you couldn’t add it in. I say add because the rind is where the fermenting bacteria comes from.