Knife Skills in a Wrap and the Onion Controversy
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Knife Skills in a Wrap and the Onion Controversy 00:00 Intro 00:29 Onion Dice 02:49 The Onion Controversy 04:53 Cooking the …
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I'm impatient to get some harvests off the herbs I planted this year. I planted a LOT, but more than 2/3 of them didn't come up. I know herbs can be picky, which is why I planted so many. I'm happy that I have some rosemary, marjoram, and cilantro coming up at least!
or you can add Violife's vegan feta cheese or a home made feta cheese. you can add soy yogurt or homemade almonds milk yogurt. Don't go without just bc you want it vegan!
I once tried to remove an avocado stone with a knife and was lucky to retain my fingers. A grapefruit spoon does the job very well.
I do a modified radial cut. I only cut the sides of the onion half at a 30 degree angle or so and the rest i cut straight down. I find it easier and more even and it splays out less.
You are a fantastic teacher! I was pleasantly suprised when you mention how to scrape the cutting board with the back of your knife and that you had a mat under it for stability. I really appreciate your honesty, as well. You don't gloss over the little steps by editing them out. Thank you for your videos!
How well does this freeze?
I assume i could warm it up only once due to the spinach?
You hella fine
I like your channel and have tried some of your recipes with success. You lost me with this version of dicing an onion. I think it’s disingenuous to say that taking more care and precision equals “Michelin star” cuisine. That’s nonsense. I worked in restaurants far below that level, and we were expected to dice correctly. Board mincing as you demonstrate is purely home cook stuff. It’s fine I guess, but with I prefer to maintain a higher standard for my home cooking. That standard goes along with knife care and storage, knowing what knife to use, etc. I honestly dont think lowering standards helps people. If the horizontal cut is the big concern then make that cut first.
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I've been cutting my onions this way for a long time. But I don't mind the irregular cubes (and the cubes that are not cubes at all!), so I skip the last part. It's perfectly fine for me!
But I'll try the radial cut, it seems a pretty good way to cut, I just need to test and see if it fits to me.
Ma'am, your spinach & onion wrap looks delicious!
Hi Helen, could you please do a video about how to clean different styles of chopping board, wood, or other materials? Especially the ones we cut meats and chicken on? Thanks
I really enjoyed and learnt a lot from your videos!! God bless you
I mostly do the horizontal cut, except I find it A LOT easier to do the horizontal cuts BEFORE the vertical cuts.
i literally tried the horizontal cut for the first time today and struggled with it, amazing timing
I found the radial method is easier if you do it by quarters and move the onion itself into position for each cut.
Another vegan option could be smoked tofu, which is so good with avocado! You don't have to cook it, you can have it in little cubes or slice it like cheese. (This assumes you've gotten the extra firm dry smoked tofu.)
I have to say that the pinch grip on the knife seems unsafe to me. I think I would chop my fingers this way. I keep my fingers back on the handle of the knife. I feel safer that way.
Thanks for this.
Thanks for sharing your knife skills with us. Stay well and safe.
06:58 cutting cherry tomatoes 🍅: I went to a cooking show and they showed this tip for small items, grapes 🍇, olives 🫒, tomatoes, etc. and it's totally worth the price of admission (she admitted she learned it from YT herself).
You're amazing teacher Helen. I love your channel so much. I will try this method of dicing onion.
I don't find the radial cut method difficult I rarely use a horizontal cut. Of course, I have been doing it for many years.
I really love how you're bridging the gap between traditional chef and home cook! Most educators simply push for "improving" unnecessary knife skills instead of meeting folks where they are and taking safety seriously. Thank you for all that you do. ❤️
What people really need is a Knife Skills for Dull Knives video.
That looks delicious! For a vegan version, I'll just swap herbed tofu chunks in place of the feta (though vegan feta can be found pretty easily in many major cities nowadays). 😉
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Im here cause Adam suggested it after talking about molto mario..
If you really do want to do the horizontal cut there are a couple of “cheats“ that you can use to make it a bit easier. The first one is to make your horizontal cuts before you do the parallel cuts. When doing the horizontal cuts first the onion is much more stable and those horizontal cuts are much easier to make. The second way of doing it is to cut the onion in quarters and then do long cuts turn the corner 90° and make another series of parallel cuts which serve as your horizontal cut. It’s kind of like her squared off onion technique but using quarters.
I needed to see this today—I have lots of onions & herbs to do. I’ve never trusted myself w a horizontal cut for dicing onions. I’m just a very amateur home cook who’s been doing vegan/vegetarian food for around 4 years (& really only been serious about learning knife skills & honestly, all the cooking skills for…well, basically those same 4 years). I’ve come a long way & I know just how much I don’t know so learning all the things is always fun. (& it’s weird to see some skill that comes intuitively to me being called “the correct way” to do something… wow!) Anyway, I shall stop stressing over the horizontal cuts & be happy w my own progress!
(Your channel was the first I watched when I’d gotten my first nice chef knife & honing steel. So far, not too many knicks & cuts! Thanks!) :))
wow! so easy. I'm gonna make this during the summer
I just cut up the root of the onion. 🙈 I don't mind it in my food at all.
I started using radial cuts not very long ago…and didn't find them hard to execute at all. It immediately felt 'right' to me, to do it like that.
I do need to work on my knife sharpening skills, though 😆
I'm not a fan of avocados, but I normal just skip them entirely and I'd never thought of substituting them with something else. I'll definitely try the Greek yoghurt option next time
Thank you Helen. Marvelous tips.
Helen cuts a top of an onion, do know that if you cut about the same thickness from the root part interesting things happen.
1 you need knifeskills to chop up the rest, no more roots to keep it all in one piece, a drawback yet vastly outweight bij 2
2 just put the root you cut off in any houseplant pot, it will take some time but you will get fresh onion greens from te roots this way, like free spring onoins. And if you cut away about half the rest will keep on growing, can last you a long time.. when done, pull it out and compost, you will water your houseplants so it litterally does not take any effort of resources.
looks like an awesome wrap! I might use eggs instead of avocado or greek yogurt.
I always love when I see Helen's techniques and it turns out I've been doing something similar for similar reasons. What's the easiest way to get the skin off onions (/etc)? be ruthless. What's the easiest way to dice an onion? be quick.
I seriously dislike the 'horizontal cut' method, since the onion consists of nothing but horizontal cuts already, and those cuts destroy the stability of the onion as it's being sliced. I use a modified version of the radial cut, angling only the last 2 or 3 cuts (depending on the size of the onion). I'm perfectly happy with the resulting 1/4" bits, as I am not fanatical about finely chopped onion.
It also pains me to discard perfectly good chunks of onion at the tip end, so I only trim off the root and the very end of its topknot. I suppose it's my McAtee genes, but chopping off the entire shoulder of a strawberry or a red pepper is a painful sight to me. I still use the strawberry huller my gran gave me * gasp * 62 years ago when I moved to my first apartment (along with the little Ekco paring knife, the colander, peeler, cheese grater, flour sifter, cast iron skillet, and more).
Wow, great to know I'm actually using my knife correctly! I already use your techniques. Oh, and for warming a wrap? 10 seconds (at a time) in the microwave is great, and lets you control/prevent dryness; you can always go another 10 if you need.
08:15 What is your opinion on eating raw spinach (the regular kind not the baby kind)? The reason I'm asking is because I've been reading from several sources on the internet that it might not be the best idea as regular raw spinach contains a fair amount of oxalic acid that binds minerals in your food and your body can't absorb them and also how it may be linked to kidney stone problems.
As always👍
Thanks once again for taking time to add actual captions for the Deaf – makes videos much easier to follow and understand 🙂
looks great 🙂
I always use the radial method learned from your video back then!
With a bit of training it works like a charm and my friends are always surprised of this dark magic 😛
Btw. just got a ton of greek yogurt from the store so this recipe is a perfect fit. It is 30 degrees outside. Way too hot to cook something in a pan 🙂
Well besides all the left over potatoes I need to incorporate in something
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Am I classed as a cheat, as I use a Nicer Dicer for most of my prep?
The radial cut is perfect, it's not hard at all!
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8:40 finally, may I be able to give you advice. 🙂
You wrap the sides first and then do you start folding the bottom half over, to then roll it all.
Try instead to fold the bottom over and compress it to a neatly small start, then fold the sides up and then do you now roll the rest up. To "lock" the roll do you put a bit of your paste in the last part of the roll, a bit like if you sealed an envelope.
Hope it makes sense. 🙂
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