- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone,
and in today's video
I'm gonna show you how to dice an onion.
Now before I get into that, I just have to talk a little bit
about the shirt that I'm wearing.
I recently crossed 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Thank you everyone who watched.
And this is the very first shirt
that I wore for my very first video six years ago.
So, that's pretty cool.
A little bit of history.
Two things, awesome for crossing the 100,000 subscribers,
secondly I might need to go shopping,
'cause clearly all my clothes are old.
But today I'm gonna show you how to dice an onion.
("Dio e Zingaro" by La Municipale Balcanica)
So we're gonna get into dicing an onion.
So there might be a little bit of confusion around that,
because sometimes you see a recipe
that calls for diced onions,
sometimes you see for chopped onions,
and what's the difference between the two?
Well in the chopped onion segment
there's three different levels.
There's a large chop, which is about a 3/4 inch cube.
There's a medium chop, which is a 1/2 inch cube.
So there's a small chop, which is about 1/4 inch cube.
Now the thing is is with a small chop and diced,
those are used pretty interchangeably
because they're really the same size.
A diced onion is about 1/4 inch cube as is a small chop.
So if you see that in a recipe, now you know,
that's the difference.
So to start, let's take a look at the onion.
There's the root side of the onion
and then there's the actual stem of the onion.
We're gonna chop off that stem
and then cut the onion in 1/2.
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So I have my peeled onion here.
Like I said, this is a small chop or a diced onion.
We're just gonna take the knife and we're gonna cut
1/4 inch slices along the onion.
Very carefully.
(chopping)
The benefit of leaving the root on right here
is that it holds the whole onion in place.
The next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna take our knife
and we're gonna cut perpendicularly to those slices.
That way when we chop the onion,
it just easily falls off in nicely formatted cubes.
So just put a couple of slices in there.
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And as you can see, one piece already fell out.
But then just take your knife and
(chopping) cut it off,
a slice at a time
and you get nice, even
dices, slices, cubes, lots of things.
But as you can see, it's real simple.
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
and getting those last little bits.
Easy as pie, or onion.
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