Properly Slicing Onions with the World's Premier Culinary College

[muhammadzahmad]

this is worth watching...

[DanialCurtis]

put onion in ice water for 5 min

[cejulioDark]

if you have a goood knife...you can do evrything...and so well

[heartlessvietboy]

If the Chimpanzee don't eat Onions, we don't eat Onions!!!

[50Violetta]

If you were Emeril, you would have said "like such."

That guy drove me crazy (Emeril, that is) the way he butchered the english language! lol!

[TheDive99]

that is not the best way to peel it.

chop the top off , chop it in half, then peel each half. so much easyer than this. dont use a knife to peel the skin off. that idea is absurd.

[storminyt]

so helpful! i've seen people cut onions like this, but i could never figure ouy exactly how to do it! thanx!

[Whitestar17a]

To avoid crying because of your onion, try to keep a sharp knife. One it will not bruise the onion and release more juice two it helps the cutting go much faster.

[dvsn23]

slicing would be against the grain...with the grain, as he did, is known as a julienne

[Slappingplastic]

@dvsn23 Julienne is a match stick sizing cut, nothing to do with the grain 

[BeondaPale]

at about 2:20 I am no longer able to see

[charly1097]

put the onions in refrigerator for 20minutes before u cut

[INIGHTRAINYDAY94]

i will give u a tip that my chef told me when u want to cut thin slice's let your fingers guide u watch thge way he holds the onion and watch how the knife is resting on his fingers

[Wwdancwe690]

notice how he holds the knife and how his other hand holds the onion while he is cutting. That is very important. yey food.

[shadow0mega]

wow so much wastage xD, usually i just cut the top, cut in half, THEN take the skin off xD

[TheDive99]

@shadow0mega exactly!

[shadow0mega]

wow so much wastage xD, usually i just cut the top, cut in half, THEN take the skin off xD

[byen8]

I wear swimming goggles

[Zephilindrum]

Doing it near an open flame helps too.

[mnyfrsh]

Breathing has nothing to do with the sting, it's reaction of sulfides in the onion creating weak sulfuric acid in your tears.

I'm quite sensitive to it so I use goggles from chemistry lab a few semesters ago.

Look like a fool but quite effective if you're chopping a mess of onions.

[projectpat0392]

@mnyfrsh sulfenic acid****

[SuperOlds88]

I make the Guatamalans prep the onions.

[SuperOlds88]

I like to put on scuba gear when I deal with onions, plus you look really cook with the air tanks on.

[SuperOlds88]

yeah, get a 5 gallon bucket of water, drop your onion in the bucket, and slice away or better yet, get a scuba diving mask and wear that, or as a last resort, just use a sharp, not kinda sharp, but SHARP knife, so you dont smash the onion cells and squirt it all over the place, simple.

[dabx1]

after using your knife on your still you should most importantly clean off your knife with atleast a paper towel. Silver fibers stay on the knife and you'll see it on your product. That's contamination

[dropandlongD]

I keep my onions in the fridge so the gas doesn't escape as quickly, because that's what makes you tear up. Also, a good trick to remember how to dice up an onion is PLANKS STICKS CUBES :) heard it from tyler florence on food network and it stuck with me

[dmnxCGi]

get a slap chop XD

[TheCaster26]

Nice job, just a minor point, should you wipe the steel filings off the knife after sharpening it?.

[vnck25]

In Tansaniya they cool the onion and put it in an onion scraper

[daryl152]

if you wear contacts, they dont affect you. lol well at least not to me.

[laurentiu1990]

cool

[aelive]

its so much easier to cut it in half first and then peel it off

[shaomao]

someone who used to work in the kitchen of some restaurant told me that turning on the burner of the stove will help.

I also notice that I hardly cry when I am cutting the onions next to the stove when the fire is on.

[Spikeygal]

... Or you could just half it down the middle and take off the skin when it's in two halves? This seems fidgety to me, but ah well.

[pukusun]

just put onion in water, it will help u to stop crying, but i will prefer not as you lose the flavour.

[stupidkiddie]

just watching this makes my eyes teary haha.

[dmix09]

oooooOoooOoo sharp knife

[911MORTON]

Get someone else to cut it for you.

[abuenaverga]

Mmm ok, Thanks!

[runbambirun]

or, how to slice onions properly. You can split an onion, but you can't split an infinitive.

[abowman162009]

this video made me cry from watching it

[Thomasa95]

When you slide the knife on the sharpening thing, doesnt the knife get lots of small, small metal parts that goes in to whatever you are cuttin' ? : O

[PsychicRowan]

why did use a peeler to get the skin off?

[bearnurse1]

This is very helpful. How do you keep from crying when cutting an onion?

[configurationmatrix]

You slice both the ends off the onion then you wet them under the tap that should stop the crying.

[sapoge4ki]

try to spread knife with cold water

[sapoge4ki]

sorry, not spread. dunk.

[deepthought23]

Try chewing some gum while cutting them

[yujidesu]

cut the onion with your eyes closed.

[joshvamped]

tilt your head upwards, as the gas rises it gets trapped in your eyes while looking down.

[bonzaibb12]

put the whole onion in cold water in the fridge for an hour before cutting. It was tested on the Food Network and came out the only proven method.

[Jakkomies]

I doubt that there are any "trick" for it, you just have to get used to it - more you cut, the less onion will make you cry.

[Naraku111]

breath from your mouth :)

[jonniemexico]

i saw a show once that said if you cut the gland out of the bottom before you cut the onion you won't tear. i haven't tried it personally but i will to see if it's true.

[sagoorbest]

cut the onion in water trust me it works

[akirasempai007]

true..!

[astropteri]

put your knife and onions into water. After that take it out and cut.

Hope it helps :)

[jthompson08722]

You can rinse the onion in cold water, or just keep at it and after time you get used to it.

[NeonPegasus]

You put it in the freezer for 10 minutes before cutting it.

[drinkup27]

That is the correct answer Neon :)

Even though this video made my eyes tear up a bit, so maybe for me it's all psychological

[drewrg]

breathe through ur mouth :)

[datcrazycygnet]

i chew gum while i do it. it works

also, keep the knife sharp. that helps too

[JeanVe]

@bearnurse1

You don't! Nothing really helps.

Just try to keep your face as far as possible from the onion while preparing it without losing sight of what you're doing! ! 

[iceman3455555]

Thanks you for making this video never new the root could help you.