@Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 days agoDicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Waypudding.coolexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1181arrow-down13file-text
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minus-square@jordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•3 days agoOr the way chefs do it: https://youtu.be/VgffXyOORqQ https://youtu.be/fff1xobJ4BQ
minus-square@dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 day agoif you cut an onion horizontally, you’re just fighting it’s already natural layers. no good onion cutting technique cuts horizontally imo
minus-square@jordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 day agoYou can get around that by quartering the onion, making the vertical cuts, turning it so the vertical cuts are horizontal, then making more vertical cuts. :)
minus-square@dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 day agoHere’s my fav way: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CwRttSfnfcc Very easy, imo!
minus-square@oozynozh@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 days agowhy do all that when you could just do this? it’s much faster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4iO0qM-f5Y
minus-square@bstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 days agoBesides the fast chopping, that guy also knows that his time is worth more than the piece of onion that he discards at the end.
minus-square@not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 days agomy knife isnt sharp enough for this
Or the way chefs do it:
https://youtu.be/VgffXyOORqQ
https://youtu.be/fff1xobJ4BQ
if you cut an onion horizontally, you’re just fighting it’s already natural layers. no good onion cutting technique cuts horizontally imo
You can get around that by quartering the onion, making the vertical cuts, turning it so the vertical cuts are horizontal, then making more vertical cuts. :)
Here’s my fav way: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CwRttSfnfcc
Very easy, imo!
why do all that when you could just do this? it’s much faster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4iO0qM-f5Y
Besides the fast chopping, that guy also knows that his time is worth more than the piece of onion that he discards at the end.
my knife isnt sharp enough for this