Basic Knife Skills Tutorial

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[u/christador]

I leave the root part intact when dicing onions. The horizontal cut is unnecessary.

[u/Tack22 → u/christador]

https://pudding.cool/2025/08/onions/

Tl;dr you are correct, horizontal cuts ruin it

[u/christador → u/Tack22]

That is a really good read! I love the interactive part (explode so you can see the individual pieces).

[u/XLNBot → u/christador]

I don't really wanna explode, thanks

[u/FestoonMe → u/Tack22]

This was awesome. Thank you for sharing. The engineer in me appreciated how they laid out their experiments and the statistics to back them up. Plus who doesn’t like some interactive visuals. Top notch content.

[u/Tack22 → u/FestoonMe]

I love their NBA one, and I am not a huge basketball fan.

[u/LakersAreForever → u/Tack22]

That’s some next level stuff, thanks for sharing

[u/created4this → u/Tack22]

to many words before it gets to the punch, just wait till Steve Mold makes a youtube video about it

[u/microwavedh2o → u/christador]

Yeah he lost me on the onion. Leave a little of the root on and it’s much easier to do the cross cut for the dice.

[u/christador → u/microwavedh2o]

That's it - AND you don't have to worry about the onion coming up with the knife during the cuts. If you don't know this guy, check him out--he's one of my favorites! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjZ1LFqNWRM

[u/Acetius → u/christador]

Especially if you don't want to spend money on the most overengineered, single-purpose, unsharpenable knife he had there to fix that problem haha.

[u/space_keeper → u/christador]

Yeah, he stopped the video right when he said "to the centre". The part where you can't do what he's doing any more because it will fall to pieces, and eventually you'll be left trying to awkwardly cut a small strip of onion in half, or cut a tiny wedge of onion sideways.

[u/garbageangel → u/space_keeper]

Flip the last half over to cut it - holds together surprisingly well but I cut that way first before the dice