- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone and today's video,
I'm gonna show you how to chop an onion,
but first I kinda wanna talk about the t-shirt
that I'm wearing because I recently just crossed
a hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube.
Awesome, right?
It took me six years to do it, but this is the t-shirt
that I wore on my very, very first video.
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So with the onion there's two parts when you're starting.
There's the root.
And then there's the stem.
So first thing that we're gonna do
is we're gonna cut off the stem part.
And then we're gonna cut the onion in half.
So when you're chopping an onion,
there's basically three chopping sizes
and there's no real, steadfast rule.
I found a large chop is about three fourths of an inch cubed
that you're chopping.
A medium chop is about a half inch cube that you're chopping.
A small chop is about one fourth inch of a cube
and that gets kind of confusing,
because when you're talking about a small chop,
it's also similar to a dice.
A dice is also a one fourth inch cube.
So those are kind of used interchangeably.
So the first thing we're gonna do
is we're gonna peel off this outer layer of our onion.
'Cause we don't want the skin in there.
Sometimes I just take--
Just pull it all the way back.
We're leaving the root completely in tact,
because we're gonna chop this by just cutting slices
along lengthwise here and depending on what chop
that we need, if we need a large chop or a medium chop
or a small chop, that will determine the thickness
of those slices.
So the first thing I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna take my knife and I'm just gonna cut layers
in the onion.
This way when I cut the different slices lengthwise,
and I chop it, it all comes down
to these perfectly nice little cubes.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take my knife,
and I'm gonna cut just strips into the onion.
Like I said, it's really the width here
that determines the chop.
So I'm gonna do a medium chop on this one.
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And now it's just a matter of slicing off those layers
creating a perpendicular cut to what we already had chopped.
So, as you chop the onion off, you'll see the cubes
just fall right off.
Pretty easy.
Now when you get to the end of the onion,
this is the tricky part.
You definitely wanna not hurt yourself.
You can do that by taking the onion
and just flipping it back over.
Then kind of repeating the same thing that you did.
Just cutting off those ends.
Again those last little bits.
Easy as that.
That's how you chop an onion.
Whether you need a large chop, medium chop or small.
Super simple.
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