3 Ways To Chop Onions Like A Pro

first things first when you're chopping onions you want to secure your board and make sure that it's not wobbly so the easiest way to do that is to grab some paper towels get them a little bit damp and put them under your board when people first start cooking they tend to want to use a smaller knife chest knives tend to have a little bit better grip and when you're cutting you have just a tiny bit more control and is actually a lot safer so our first method is going to be dicing and the first thing that we're going to do is cut off the tip and as with any cutting technique that we're ever doing we want to get the flat side down so that it's not rolling around it's nice and flat and secure so we will just turn this guy upside down and we're going to cut this guy right in the middle and then from here we can very easily peel off this papery bit and also I like to take off the first layer of onion as well it's a little bit leathery and a little bit dry and it won't really break down when we're cooking so we don't want this at all so we'll put one of these off to the side and make sure we've got plenty of room to work with on a lot of of shows or tutorials you might see that you need to make a lot of these horizontal Cuts in there once you get to the top it can get a little bit dangerous so what you want to do is just very carefully place your hand on top of the onion so it's flat and then take your chef's knife and do one or two horizontal Cuts going all the way through the onion but not quite hitting the root and then you're going to turn the onion towards you and make Cuts like this all the way across the onion and whenever I'm cutting I'm going to use my hand kind of like a CL to make sure that I'm not cutting off my fingers so you can kind of use these Knuckles right here as a guide and kind of always have them upright like this so that the knuckles are touching the side of the knife and you're going to keep your fingertips curled in a little bit and that's going to prevent you from cutting your finger don't worry about these straggly bits that fall off we can get those later and then we're going to turn the onion over again and then we'll do those nice even rolling slices and still using your claw hand you're going to kind of kind of push the onion together again with your pinky and your thumb just to keep the onion more intact when you're slicing and once you get to this point where you can't really hold the onion anymore cuz you've cut so much of it just flip it over and you can finish your cuts and get the most out of your onion and then that's all the waste you have so when you're going to get your onions off the board don't scrape your knife with the cut side on your board cuz that will dull it very very quickly so what we're actually going to do is kind of flip this guy around around and use the bottom to be scraping and only get enough that's comfortable don't try and get it all at once a couple extra trips won't kill you and that's dicing an onion so next I'm going to show you how to slice an onion two different ways and we're going to do the same thing we did last time where we're going to cut off the tip and again we're going to put it flat side down use our claw hand cut straight down put one off to the side tear off the papery layer also a little trick is to use the heel of your knife to get under those layers if you don't want to get it under your nails so there's two different ways to slice an onion you can go this way or this way most people are comfortable doing it this way but when you slice this way and start to cook they actually start to break down and turn kind of into mush these are great for any dish with raw onions like a salad and then for anything else I'll show you the other kind of way to do it so again we're going to go the flat side down but we're actually going to turn it towards you also since you're going to be cutting it this way and you don't really have to hold on to the root you can just go ahead and cut this off and then same thing using that claw hand and these are for any dishes where you're going to need cooked onion and the easiest way to remember that is just to look at the lines on the onion and cut with those lines if you're cutting with those lines the onion's going to stay more intact and it'll stay together more when you're cooking once it starts to get hard to hold on to you can just turn it down that way and start again and then once you get to the edge just take your time and voila next we're going to do onion rings so for the onion rings we're going to start this one a little bit differently we're going to cut the top off the onion and we're actually not going to peel this one and we're going to leave this on so that we have something to hold on to what I am going to do is cut a little bit off one of the sides kind of where those outer layers are we're not going to use those outer layers anyway and it just gives us a flat surface to work on so this way when I'm trying to make rings it's not rolling all over the place and with these because it is a smaller Edge just take your time I'm always going to have my claw ready to go we can do nice thin rings for something like a burger and we can do a nice thicker slice for something like onion rings and then at this point all we really have to do is just kind of press it in whichever way is easier and make them into those individual layers and again if there's any of the outer bit that is a little bit rubbery and thick just get rid of that all together and you're left with these beautiful nice Wis these are great for making a variety of tasty videos guacamole onion rings spinach and onion dip onion rings and you can stuff it and freeze it we'll fry it

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Length: 5min 10sec (310 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 19 2016