00:00:03the most common veg you’re going to do
00:00:04so you might as well know how to do it
00:00:06properly so first things first is two
00:00:08ways slicing and chopping let’s do
00:00:10slicing first we’ve peeled the onion
00:00:11we’re going to half it once you have
00:00:15that you’ve got the core here right now
00:00:17if you want it to stay together keep the
00:00:20core on and I’ll show you exactly what
00:00:21that looks like I’m going to keep the
00:00:23fingers in we’re going to just do a
00:00:25tapping action slowly controlled use of
00:00:31thumb to secure it as soon as it gets
00:00:36wobbly flip it onto that side so it’s
00:00:38secure as soon as it gets probably do
00:00:42the same again now what you’ll notice is
00:00:45that basically by not taking that core
00:00:47off right the core will keep it all
00:00:50secured and all together so sometimes
00:00:53you want that you know if you’re doing a
00:00:55nice potato dish with onions and sage
00:00:57and you want to roast it off you might
00:00:58want that core on there so that’s one
00:01:00way of slicing just like that the other
00:01:02way is to remove that core here simply
00:01:06just cut it off that’s all you have to
00:01:08do and then when you slice it up then
00:01:18you can break these up and they’ll all
00:01:21fall apart and they’ll be loose and
00:01:22delicate and this is very much you know
00:01:26how I start a lot of soups sometimes
00:01:28stews and bits and pieces like that
00:01:30so that’s the second way now as I do
00:01:32this I’m starting to cry so I’m going to
00:01:34be really quick on how to do the
00:01:35chopping because you can’t stop crying
00:01:37unless you do it with goggles on and
00:01:38I’ve done that many times take the end
00:01:41of your onion off take just the end of
00:01:44your core off a little bit slice it in
00:01:47half right and again we’re going to use
00:01:49that core to our advantage so we’re
00:01:51going to put it core side away from me
00:01:53right that’s going to hold the onion
00:01:55together and then you want to basically
00:01:57not go all the way through the onion you
00:01:59want to just use the tip to about here
00:02:01so we’re going to just tap you can take
00:02:04your time absolutely how thin you put
00:02:06this cut together will determine how
00:02:09fine your onions will be
00:02:12and then you twist it and you can even
00:02:14do one or two little slices again nearly
00:02:17to the end here keeping your fingers
00:02:20well out the way for sure otherwise
00:02:21you’ll have an accident and then once
00:02:23you’ve got the two sizes that way and
00:02:25the many slices that way then slice down
00:02:28here once you get to this sort of point
00:02:33you can just anchor it into a side at
00:02:34the time and there you’ve got beautiful
00:02:46finely chopped onions if it’s not fine
00:02:49enough for you then you can go on to the
00:02:51rocking action and get it as fine as you
00:02:54need it so I’m just going to put that
00:02:58one to the side and rattle through this
00:03:01one nice and quickly again so as we said
00:03:06before course I’d away tap nearly to the
00:03:11end however fast or slow you want to do
00:03:14it doesn’t matter put it back together
00:03:17again twist it go nearly all the way
00:03:20through nearly all the way through and
00:03:25final slice there you go beautiful
00:03:29finely sliced onions you’ll be doing it
00:03:32time and time again to your minds well
00:03:34now I do it properly good luck
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