/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6731480
With a knife ya moron.

>>6731482
Without crying to death

>>6731480
With a serrated steak knife.

>>6731480
With a knife

Here anon, this might help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TllPrdbZ-VI

>>6731480
Use a mezzaluna, you'll look so pro

>>6731480
If your eyes are watering, do this >>6731497
at the bottom of a large mixing bowl full of water.

>>6731484

Sharp knife, work faster.

>>6731519

that sounds somewhat dangerous considering the sides of the bowl are going to force you to cut the onion at weird angle

I've always been surprised that the method in >>6731497 was the standard method because it seems somewhat unsafe as well, but I guess it's your best bet if you can't chop it fast enough to avoid doing those horizontal cuts before the vertical ones

>>6731497
>step 2 and 3
FUCK IT WAS SO OBVIOUS WHY AM I SO DUMB
Actually even stage 1 is too smart 4 me. I peel it whole.

>>6731480
>tfw you used to break down over 300 lbs. of onions a day
>tfw you're at home and you can chop an onion in a few seconds

>>6731497
Does anyone actually do step 2?

I mean the onion's already in layers, it doesn't really achieve anything surely

You savages and your giant chunks of onion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBj9H6z6Uxw

>>6731568

I usually skip it. But that said if you want a really even perfect dice then you ought to do it. Most of the onion chops fine regardless but if you skip step 2 you can get some longer pieces at the edges of the onion where layers are more "vertical".

>>6731568
right, step 2 is unnecessary.
also, when I peel it, I remove also the first outer layer, not only the brown skin.

>>6731497
Pro tip: if you're chopping a lot of onions, step 1 should be done to every onion first and on a separate cutting board. You don't want the skin to get mixed in with the chopped onion.

Once you get them peeled, chopping an onion should take no more than 10 seconds and can get you fired or moved to another position if it does.

My favorite video:

https://youtu.be/3u-nQD-nwK8?t=147

>>6731482
OP's a dumb nigger and has to go steal a knife now.

>>6731480
Pound it with your dick....

>>6731592
>you can get some longer pieces at the edges of the onion where layers are more "vertical".

I often do something like this. The traditional way of chopping onion always bugged me. It treats the onion like its a cube. It is fast though.

>>6731480
https://youtu.be/jDGqtjcyxlQ?t=4m31s

>>6731534
>it seems somewhat unsafe
Keep your knives sharp and this is not very dangerous. If you don't and have to use more pressure to cut horizontally then you'll hurt yourself sooner or later.

>>6731568
no. step two is retarded.

>>6731601
>video was made in my country
>video is blocked in my country

>>6731730
You're not the only one, 'nuff said.

>>6731677
What the fuck did I just watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ73qzGT8q4

>>6731568
if you don't do step 2, the sides of the onion will give you long thin pieces instead of small cubes

i don't really mind but some do

>>6731787
w2c watch

>>6731568

Its only something worth doing when you want a really fine dice

with a laser

I chop vertically then horizontally and then I just randomly chop in all directions to make the pieces smaller

>>6731812
..Why? Why do it this way when you could just do it correctly?

>>6731637
I used to live with a guy who worked silver service at a swanky hotel and he said all the chefs there used this method. I've done it like this ever since.

>>6731787

That was fast but extremely foolish to have his fingers out like that

>>6731637
So.. a basic juilenne then?

cut it with your erect phallus

>>6731841
I keep the root end intact and then slice in the other direction like normal for a dice.

>>6731515

>mezzaluna
>professional

>>6731876
a mezzaluna seems to me like a knife designed for extremely drunk people

>>6731637

This is how most chefs actually do it

>>6731480
First, I usually freeze my onion for at least 15-20 mins so that it doesnt make me cry.

I don't have any sort of food chopper and I've found the easiest way to "dice" onions is to cut it in half and then cut a small grid into it but dont cut all the way through. Just cut ALMOST to the end of the onion..
Like I said, make a grid with your cuts all the way across and cut far into the onion,
then turn on its side and make small slices so that they come off in little chopped onion cubes.

depending on how big they are, I'll sometimes chop a bit more after I cut all of it off but usually it'll work for dicing.
hope this makes sense

>>6731601
it's my kitchen no one's going to fire me

>>6731480
I remember this being a thing when I was a kid. Like I definitely experienced my eyes watering when cutting an onion. But for the last 20 years or so, I haven't had this problem and I cut onions at least 3 times a week. Maybe if you just cut onions a bunch your eyes stop being pussies about it like mine did.

>>6732629
Shoot yourself with smaller caliber bullets to build up an immunity to bigger ones.

>>6731915
Contacts lenses are great for that, I never get hit buy the onion. When I'm not wearing them and I slice and dice and onion then oh yeah I feel it in my eyes.

Weird times.

>>6731496
I was so into it until he pulled out the crystal, then the paper bag.

Then I knew he was taking me on a snipe hunt.

>>6732852
Also

>Everyone in this thread not wearing the proper onion cutting gear-goggles and nose plugs

Plebs

>>6731559
Did your eyes burn out or did they just grow calluses?

Breathe through your mouth, it fixes it.

i never peel the skin until ive cut the onion 4 times,
pic related, my kitchen assistant