How to Slice and Dice an Onion Like a Pro

The owner and chef at restaurant Lento demonstrates how to slice and dice an onion like a pro.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Food
• Kitchen
• How To
• Knives
• Onions

[dendennn]

worlds worst cameraman

[kungpowchix]

do not follow this mans example. if you want to know how to do it correctly and in a safe way, watch gordon ramsay's video.

[alexhendrick709]

@kungpowchix this almost exactly the same as Ramsay's? he just made a few more cuts, but its the exact same technique

[theinsomniac4life]

Unless that steel was diamond impregnated (and most viewer's will not be), it will not sharpen a knife, it will only hone it. Teaching people to scrape their knife against a steel like that is a waste of time and may damage the knife. A steel, unless it is made of a material harder than the knife like ceramic or diamond, is only used to hone, or straighten, a blade after it has been properly sharpened.

[Robandall]

One thing I've never understood about that dice technique (cuts along 3 planes) - the onion is in horizontal layers already so why do you need the horizontal cuts?!  Vertical slices then perpendicular horizontal slices gives you a good dice as is.

[DominicJozwik]

you're getting it on the floor.

[paopilar]

stupid chef cut himself!

[hunter54ad]

the camera work reminds me of movies like "irreversible", "battle: l.a." or "cloverfield" but this one is still better

[errorstudios]

appalling camera work...

[ProcrastinatingGuy]

my head just from all the shaky camera!

its cloverfield: onions!

[777neotamakachi777]

I did find it interesting how he did not cut through the back of the onion when dicing it. Will definitely try that tonight, I usually just cut right through and end up having to reposition the onion together while dicing.

Thanks for sharing your technique with us Lento