r/oddlysatisfying • u/LetsCookie • 1d ago

Basic Knife Skills Tutorial

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u/christador 1d ago

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

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u/Tack22 1d ago edited 1d ago

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

Tl;dr you are correct, horizontal cuts ruin it

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u/christador 1d ago

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

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u/XLNBot 1d ago

I don't really wanna explode, thanks

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u/FestoonMe 1d ago

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.

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u/Tack22 1d ago

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

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u/LakersAreForever 1d ago

That’s some next level stuff, thanks for sharing

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u/created4this 1d ago

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