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TIL I'd been slicing onions wrong for 12 years because a line cook at a diner in Dayton laughed at me
I was helping my cousin prep for a cookout and he watched me dice an onion for about 10 seconds before he just lost it. Turns out I'd been cutting straight down through the root the whole time, which is why my eyes watered so bad I had to walk away and my dice always turned to mush after 5 minutes. He showed me to leave the root end on and cut around it, and I got through 4 onions in the time it used to take me to do one. I've made chili probably 200 times and never once thought about it. Now I'm wondering what else I've been doing backwards this whole time. What's the dumb kitchen habit someone had to point out to you?
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sean_walker4512d ago
Honestly the onion thing got me because I did the exact same straight-down chop for years and just thought I was bad at cooking. My dumb one was microwaving eggs in a bowl without stirring, and I did it for months until my roommate watched a egg explode and asked what was wrong with me. Tbh I also used to put pasta in before the water boiled because I thought it would save time, which is basically a war crime in Italy. Ngl the root trick sounds obvious now but 12 years is nothing, I bet half the people reading this are still crying over their cutting boards.
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