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Throws it in the food processor.
by pfdietz 1y ago
Throws it in the food processor.
- SoftTalker 1y agoNice if you want onion mush.
- criley2 1y agoA few quick pulses doesn't make mush and is fine for a lot of applications. Otherwise, food processors have dicing kits https://i.imgur.com/cXbZ9aC.png https://i.imgur.com/cXbZ9aC.png I enjoy the art of prep with my beautiful wa gyuto, I truly do. But if you put a 5 pound bag of large onion on front of me to dice, I will prefer the machine...
- dcrazy 1y agoYes, there is an inconvenience threshold that must be reached before bringing out the food processor. We also have a mandolin that can make cross-cuts for intermediate jobs: https://a.co/d/da8OxnE https://a.co/d/da8OxnE
- criley2 1y agoThat's a really cool mandoline, thanks for sharing. Not only is it safer but it's accessible for folks with motor issues. I'm still using a cut resistant glove and ignoring my plastic guard on a standard one.
- webstrand 1y agoNow you have to clean the food processor. Which is enough of a trouble to prevent me from using it very frequently.
- account42 1y agoAgreed. Food processors only make sense for larger amounts of processed foods. I'm glad to have one for those occasions though.
- pfdietz 1y agoRemove from the motor/base, separate parts, spray with water and toss in the dishwasher. And wouldn't you have to clean the cutting board and knife anyway? The most important part: much less eye watering.
- crazygringo 1y ago> Remove from the motor/base, separate parts, spray with water And then do in reverse once it's clean. And you're wondering why it seems like too much trouble...? Plus you still need the knife and cutting board anyways to chop off the ends of the onion before peeling it. So it's not even instead of, it's in addition to. Much less time to dice it yourself for one or two onions. Ten or twenty onions, OK it's food processor time.
- pfdietz 1y agoReassembling a food processor takes mere seconds. Overall, doing all this is much more convenient than manually chopping onions. It's not even close. This is one of the ideal use cases for a food processor.
- crazygringo 1y agoMaybe you're really slow at chopping onions? It takes like 15 seconds to dice an onion once it's peeled. Taking out, disassembling, rinsing, racking, unracking, reassembling, and putting away a food processor takes much much longer, any way you slice it. You're right, it's not even close -- manual dicing is always going to win for just a couple onions, unless you're already using the food processor for something else.
- pfdietz 1y agoMaybe you're a masochist and like the sulfuric acid in your eyes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syn-Propanethial-S-oxide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syn-Propanethial-S-oxide
- tptacek 1y agoThe metric being optimized here is uniformity of cut.