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From: flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Easy way to dice onions
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Date: Sat, 31-Mar-84 20:32:50 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 31 20:32:50 1984
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I've already gotten a surprising number of requests for the easy way
to dice onions, so I guess it's both of interest and not so well
known.  The onion has a root end and a tip end; the first step is to
slice it in half from root to tip.  Now you have two hemispheres, each
of which is treated as follows.

1.  Put the flat side down on the cutting surface with the root end at
the left (if you're right-handed).  Make cuts parallel to the table,
1/8" apart (or however big you want the pieces), beginning from the
tip end and going to within 1/2" or so of the root end.  This is the
only tricky part - you have to avoid the possibility of the knife
slipping and cutting your left hand.  Now you have planes sticking out
of the root end.

2.  Now make vertical cuts 1/8" or so apart, parallel to the root-tip
axis (i.e., left-right), from the tip end to within 1/2" or so of the
root end.  Now you have little fingers sticking out of the root end.

3.  Now make vertical cuts 1/8" or so apart, perpendicular to the
root-tip axis (i.e., toward and away from you).  The little fingers
fall apart into 1/8" cubes.  Throw away the hunk of root end.

It's a lot more complicated to describe than to do.


-- Ted Flinn

(my certificat from Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine et de Patisserie
says "Mme Flinn")