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The most uniform pieces come from this onion dicer: https://latacocarts.com/products/onion-dicer https://latacocarts.com/products/onion-dicer I used to work in

The most uniform pieces come from this onion dicer: https://latacocarts.com/products/onion-dicer https://latacocarts.com/products/onion-dicer I used to work in fast food and this bad boy has a rate of 0.5 onions/sec and all of the resulting pieces are perfectly uniform squares. If you've ever wondered where the perfectly diced onions garnishing your burger came from, this is it. It was a pain to clean though, as the blades were exceedingly sharp. Someone would cut their fingers about once a week on those things.

account42 1y ago
> It was a pain to clean though, as the blades were exceedingly sharp. Someone would cut their fingers about once a week on those things. Much better than the various food cutting tools available to consumers which (apart from knives) are always exceedingly dull IME to the point of being useless. An the weird shapes make them impossible to sharpen yourself.
0xDEAFBEAD 1y ago
Not dishwasher safe?
- glitchc 1y ago
  These commercial tools are often odd-shaped (this one is a foot and a half tall) and not dishwasher friendly. Even if you found a way to somehow fit it into the dishwasher, the jets may not reach the blades.
- b112 1y ago
  I have a knife I use only to cut veggies, I never wash it with soap, just rinse it off and put it back in the block. Veggies aren't meat. This is the same for my frying pans. Just rinse them. When was the last time you saw someone use soap to clean a bbq?
  - malfist 1y ago
    This is why you're way more likely to get food poisoning at home. Or at least at this guys home
    - account42 1y ago
      This is absurd. Do you also worry about particulates in the ear you're breathing all the time?
    - b112 1y ago
      You'll never get food poisoning from a frying pan, because you don't use soap. Or have you heard of people getting food poisoning, from not washing their bbq with soap? Note I didn't say pots. Boiling isn't anywhere near as hot as frying. The knife? The horrors! I do rinse it and remove all biological matter. Yes, there's still some there. I assure you the wooden block people use, is teeming with bacteria, so do you wash the knife before using it? I wonder. I often pick fruit from trees, sometimes spit on it and then brush it off on my shirt. Do you do the same? When you get home from the grocery store, do you wash all your veggies with soap? Or do you just use water? What about your fruit? All washed with soap? If not, I assure you the fruit and vegetables are far worse than the knife, rinsed off. And yes, I do wash my hands before preparing food -- and just before eating it. Veggies just aren't meat. If they were, you'd never see someone eating an apple right from the store, a tree, or not washing them with soap first. I mean honestly, the grocery store apple has often traveled thousands of miles in a crate on a ship, been handled by people putting the food out, been handled by other customers, you, been in a bag that isn't sterilized. I wonder again, how many use soap on that apple? Of course when I eat an apple all that's left is the stem, so people are picky anyhow.
      - NicuCalcea 1y ago
        Wood chopping boards are actually not teeming with bacteria. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X22020920?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X2...
        1y ago

account42 1y ago

> It was a pain to clean though, as the blades were exceedingly sharp. Someone would cut their fingers about once a week on those things. Much better than the various food cutting tools available to consumers which (apart from knives) are always exceedingly dull IME to the point of being useless. An the weird shapes make them impossible to sharpen yourself.

0xDEAFBEAD 1y ago

Not dishwasher safe?

glitchc 1y ago
These commercial tools are often odd-shaped (this one is a foot and a half tall) and not dishwasher friendly. Even if you found a way to somehow fit it into the dishwasher, the jets may not reach the blades.
b112 1y ago
I have a knife I use only to cut veggies, I never wash it with soap, just rinse it off and put it back in the block. Veggies aren't meat. This is the same for my frying pans. Just rinse them. When was the last time you saw someone use soap to clean a bbq?
- malfist 1y ago
  This is why you're way more likely to get food poisoning at home. Or at least at this guys home
  - account42 1y ago
    This is absurd. Do you also worry about particulates in the ear you're breathing all the time?
  - b112 1y ago
    You'll never get food poisoning from a frying pan, because you don't use soap. Or have you heard of people getting food poisoning, from not washing their bbq with soap? Note I didn't say pots. Boiling isn't anywhere near as hot as frying. The knife? The horrors! I do rinse it and remove all biological matter. Yes, there's still some there. I assure you the wooden block people use, is teeming with bacteria, so do you wash the knife before using it? I wonder. I often pick fruit from trees, sometimes spit on it and then brush it off on my shirt. Do you do the same? When you get home from the grocery store, do you wash all your veggies with soap? Or do you just use water? What about your fruit? All washed with soap? If not, I assure you the fruit and vegetables are far worse than the knife, rinsed off. And yes, I do wash my hands before preparing food -- and just before eating it. Veggies just aren't meat. If they were, you'd never see someone eating an apple right from the store, a tree, or not washing them with soap first. I mean honestly, the grocery store apple has often traveled thousands of miles in a crate on a ship, been handled by people putting the food out, been handled by other customers, you, been in a bag that isn't sterilized. I wonder again, how many use soap on that apple? Of course when I eat an apple all that's left is the stem, so people are picky anyhow.
    - NicuCalcea 1y ago
      Wood chopping boards are actually not teeming with bacteria. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X22020920?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X2...
      - 1y ago