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How To Of The Day: How To Cut An Onion

This kitchen hack gadget is located in the hair care aisle. Make your life easier using a hair pick to hold onions, fruit and vegetables while you cut them.

Enjoy!




Onions may be a flavorful staple of many delicious dishes, but let’s face it: they’re a pain in the butt to cut up. If it’s not the teary eyes you get from slicing into them, it’s the way their layers fall apart as you try to chop, bringing the knife dangerously close to your fingers. Sure, seasoned chefs may be able to speed their way through a whole bushel of onions in minutes, but for many of us it’s a tedious, time-consuming and irritating part of any meal prep.

But YouTuber DaveHax has a better way. No, it’s not some frivolous gadget that will clutter your kitchen cabinets and it’s not going to cost you three easy payment of $19.95. In fact, it’s probably already sitting the drawer of your bathroom vanity right now. The miracle solution to all your onion-induced woes? A hair pick. The metal tines are perfect for not only holding an unruly onion from rolling around, they also provide a handy guide for even slicing and keeping all the onion’s layers in one place. But wait, there’s more! A hair pick can help you quickly and precisely slice any number of fruits and vegetables from cucumbers to tomatoes to lemons. Oh, and he doesn’t explicitly say so, but it’s probably a good idea to wash your hair pick before you put it back in your hair.

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Recipes

Rotisserie Onions

Rotisserie Onions

Rotisserie Onions

The gentle rotation makes the onions extra sweet and tender inside and deliciously caramelized on the outside.

Ingredients

  • 1 or more medium (8 ounce) onions, about the size of your fist. Root and stem end trimmed but skin left on.
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

Instructions

  1. Skewer the onion through the root end; if you have an extra spit fork, use it to secure the onion to the spit. Then spit and secure the main course.
  2. Be sure to test that your food freely fits and spins on the rotisserie. It is crucial to test this out before you preheat the grill.
  3. Set the grill up for indirect high heat (450° to 550°F) with the drip pan in the middle of the grill.
  4. Put the spit on the grill, start the motor spinning, and make sure the drip pan is centered beneath the main course. Close the lid and cook until the onion is blackened on the outside and tender all the way through, about 1 hour.
  5. Remove the onion from the rotisserie spit. Be careful – the spit and forks are blazing hot. Cut the blackened skin away from the onion and discard. Dice the cooked onion, sprinkle with salt, and serve.

By Gags

Adapted from Weber