Save Yourself Some Tears With This Revolutionary Onion Cutting Technique
Onions are a staple in so many beloved dishes. They can compliment softened bread and oozing cheese in classic French Onion Soup or fly solo when deep-fried into a Blooming Onion.
But, this widely favored ingredient is often also the most dreaded to cook with. Why? Because after cutting into an onion, people are brought to tears– literally.
And if you have ever wondered how such a delicious vegetable can cause so many unprompted emotions, you are not alone.
According to the National Onion Association, though, the true tear-jerking culprit is the onion’s root end.
So, the onion experts recommend that people do not cut the root end at all.
Instead, you should begin your ingredient prep by first chilling your onions for thirty minutes. Then, use a dicing method that avoids tampering with the root.
Melanie Lionello, a nutritionist, cookbook author, and foodie, recently shared an excellent root-avoiding technique on her Instagram account @FromMyLittleKitchen.
And the method is so easy that even novice chefs can successfully perform it!
Instagram; pictured above, Melanie dices an onion
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First, you should set an onion on a cutting board with its root facing the ceiling. Then, make vertical cuts from the onion’s top to bottom around the entire perimeter of the vegetable’s skin.
Once you have completed a full rotation of cuts, simply turn the onion on its side. Finally, hold the root with one hand and begin slicing vertically with the other.
You will be left with a perfectly diced onion and no sacrificed tears! What a dream.
Melanie’s Instagram Reel displaying the method has since gone viral, garnering over 13.5 million views, gaining seven hundred and ninety-two thousand likes, and spurring over five thousand comments.
Everyone from beginners in the kitchen to experienced chefs was blown away.
“Wait, what?!” commented one user.
“Oh my god, this makes so much sense!” wrote a second user.
“Total revelation,” wrote a third.
To view Melanie’s original video and try this technique out for yourself, visit the link here.
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