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Or the way chefs do it:
https://youtu.be/VgffXyOORqQ
https://youtu.be/fff1xobJ4BQ
my knife isnt sharp enough for this
why do all that when you could just do this? it's much faster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4iO0qM-f5Y
Besides the fast chopping, that guy also knows that his time is worth more than the piece of onion that he discards at the end.
if you cut an onion horizontally, you're just fighting it's already natural layers. no good onion cutting technique cuts horizontally imo
You can get around that by quartering the onion, making the vertical cuts, turning it so the vertical cuts are horizontal, then making more vertical cuts. :)
Here's my fav way: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CwRttSfnfcc
Very easy, imo!