I realized yesterday while making dinner that I take for granted my ability to perfectly dice an onion in less than a minute. This is not a post where I'm saying I'm more awesome than you. This is a post where I hope to pass along some knowledge that I didn't always have in hopes that when you are running late with dinner you, too can ninja-chop an onion.
Let's look at an onion. We shall call the fluffy stringy part of the onion the "north pole" and the papery layered end of the onion the "south pole" (even though the north pole is the one that grows down into the ground... meta.) Cut off the south pole completely like so.
Also, please note that I am left-handed so yours will probably be backwards. Place the flat side of the onion down on the board and cut right through the middle of the north pole so you have two even halves. Peel back and tear off the skin. At this point the onion should look like this.
This is the fun part! Cut even lines running perpendicular to the north pole that don't quite reach the top of the onion, repeat on the second half. Okay, here's the hard part, now cut the onion halves in half like this.
I'm glad I took a picture because I can't even think how to describe that. Anyway. Make sure you do this part gently or else you're going to shear the top half off and ruin it. At this point, starting where you cut off the south pole, cut the onion straight down trying to match the width of the perpendicular lines. The end result is a perfectly diced onion!
Let's look at an onion. We shall call the fluffy stringy part of the onion the "north pole" and the papery layered end of the onion the "south pole" (even though the north pole is the one that grows down into the ground... meta.) Cut off the south pole completely like so.
Also, please note that I am left-handed so yours will probably be backwards. Place the flat side of the onion down on the board and cut right through the middle of the north pole so you have two even halves. Peel back and tear off the skin. At this point the onion should look like this.
This is the fun part! Cut even lines running perpendicular to the north pole that don't quite reach the top of the onion, repeat on the second half. Okay, here's the hard part, now cut the onion halves in half like this.
I'm glad I took a picture because I can't even think how to describe that. Anyway. Make sure you do this part gently or else you're going to shear the top half off and ruin it. At this point, starting where you cut off the south pole, cut the onion straight down trying to match the width of the perpendicular lines. The end result is a perfectly diced onion!
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