The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

(Nandana) #1

  • THE BASIC PROCESS always starts out the same: Place
    the onion on your cutting board and slice off the stem end
    (1), then put it on the face you just cut and split the onion
    in half (2). Peel the onion (3), and then from there . . .

  • FOR MEDIUM OR LARGE DICE: Make 2 to 6 cuts in
    the onion half, running from pole to pole (4), leaving the
    root end intact to hold the onion together (5). Then make
    2 to 6 perpendicular cuts to form large dice.

  • FOR SMALL DICE: Make parallel cuts running pole to
    pole at ¼-inch intervals, leaving the root end intact. Then
    hold your knife horizontally and make a single slice about

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