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as possible. Cooking meals and getting easy dinner ideas doesnt have to include a home cooking recipe or a gourmet recipe, it can be a cooking recipe that youve created yourself with basic cooking methods. Cooking Coarse focuses on basic cooking methods to empower the home cook to create simple cooking recipes to make everyday cooking more creative and enjoyable. ... "free cooking classes" "food recipes" "cooking recipes" "cooking school" "chef todd mohr" "how to dice an onion" ...
if u put a bowl of water next to your cutting board the onions wont irritate your eyes as much becuase the gas that makes you cry is attracted to water and the closest source is your eyes, so if u have a bowl of water,it wont make you cry as much
To keep your eyes from watering while cutting onions, breath through your mouth, and NOT your nose. A trick my grandma taught me.
I use onions a lot in recipes. The strange thing is, they never made me cry like they do other people. Never had a problem with that.
Toss is Great
this is a life changing video !!!!!! :D
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Ok, maybe I could have just used some basic culinary training or something. But man, i've picked up two things from your series so far that just has made life eaiser for me!
One of them was how to properly hold the knife - I was just grabbing it by the handle and going to town. Never really felt comfortable, till I tried it your way. It was an immediate "...oh. Yeah, this is better" reaction.
With the onions I never kept the root on, and always had problems cutting it right. Thx!
Great video! On the subject of stinging eyes, there are a couple of solutions I've been using fairly reliably for a while. The cause of the irritation is actually a gas that combines with the moisture in your eyes to form suphenic acid, which (as you might guess) stings! This is why cutting underwater works — the gas hydrolyses with the water and so never reaches your eyes. So, if you try cutting onion whilst breathing through your mouth, the gas will hydrolyse on your tongue harmlessly!
Thanks for the informative and fun video!
If your knife is sharp and I mean really hair popping sharp. You won't have any tears. Well, unless you cut yourself.
If you want to avoid crying while cutting onions- keep them cold! I'd throw the whole bag into the sink full of water and ice. And work quickly!
thanks man you helped me alot im trying to get a chef apprenticeship and its good to go over some of the things i did in my pre apprenticeship coarse
thanks alot keep it up
I have viewed most of the knife skills video here.
I will challenge any of these experts in speed and instruction. I will be blindfolded and my competitor does not have to be.
Teacherfood aka The Blindfolded Chef
A lot of chief have tricks about cutting Onions but this one is the so far the best of all ! Keep it up, I really like your show -5 starts
Thanks a lot for the videos! I'm starting chef's school soon and I kinda wanted to prepare myself.....^^
I learnt how to cut an onion properly! PRAISEEE THE LORD! Why didn't they teach me this in food tech? 5 stars.
Onion chemicals go up...
So if you try to cut onions around your eye level, your eyes won't tear.
This may not be a comfortable position, but at least you won't cry :)
Nice technique! One of the few videos on youtube that actually gets it right.
If you want to stop crying - try wearing contact lenses. Although, in my experience, if you do wear contact lenses you'll look like an onion superhero and end up cutting a hell of a lot of onions.
I stand up as far away from the onion breathing through my mouth and with a vary vary sharp knife. that helps me.
Thanks for the help. I have incorporated this cutting method while cutting onions for pizza at my work.
Damn, so you fed spies and government-sanctioned hackers!! :D
By the way, that is classified information. :) [15,000 employees]
Even if you breathe through the mouth, I doubt that would prevent the fumes from reaching your eyes
I was a Chef at the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Just out of curiosity, what was this government institution where you had 15,000 people to feed? Oh, and good videos by the way.
If you don't want to cry, try breathing through the mouth only + good ventilation.
CrimFerret-
No offense taken. I hope you don't misunderstand. I'm not saying this is the only way. As a matter of fact, the entire mission of Cooking Coarse is to inspire people to return to their kitchens with their own likes, desires, and creativity. If you like another way of cutting an onion, you should stick with that. There's more than one chef in the world, more than one recipe, more than one way to skin an onion. Thanks for watching.