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How to cut an onion; mincing


Just generally mincing about really

Mincing is close to grating, but the onion retains a lot more moisture when mincing. It’s basically cutting it up really really fine so WTF! (Watch Those Fingers)

Start by finely dicing an onion.

Then all you need to do is finely chop it up.

Chop chop chop and chop some more

“My local spring onions have started singing hip hop. The little rap scallions.”

So there you have it, the most commonly used way of prepping an onion.

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How to cut an onion; dicing


My favourite way to cut an onion

I like this the most because i think diced onion brings out the best flavour, also it cooks the fastest as the onion is cut into smaller pieces.

Start by taking half of a peeled onion and lay it flat side down on a chopping board.

Use the lines on the onion as a rough guide

If you look at the onion you should see faint lines from the root to the top of the onion, use these as a rough guide to slide along the onion, stay as close to the root as you can.

Try and cut as close to the root as you can

Turn the onion 90° and proceed to cut as you would if you were slicing it lengthways.

Slice the onion lengthways

Et voila! The result is a pile of lovely diced onion.

Onion, in all it’s glory.

Finely diced onion

This is pretty much the same process as above, but before dicing make 2 incisions into the onion sideways (keep the onion on the chopping board, i only picked it up to demonstrate)

Make 2 or 3 incisions in the onion sideways
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