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The piñas must get to a pressure cooker within 24 hours, where the sugars can be extracted.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

They then load the piñas into a truck for roasting, which can take another week once the subterranean oven is constructed.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2023

The intrinsic smoke flavor forms during the process of roasting the agave hearts, or piñas, before they are crushed and fermented.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

We drove with the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca on our left, until we reached San Baltazar Guelavila, where a hand-painted sign warned of dengue, and small boys bear-wrestled beside a pickup truck full of piñas.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016

These piñas are then carefully weighed and put into a subliming furnace, Figs.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various