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Okay, so you watch Food TV and you see these chefs chopping onions like it’s the easiest thing in the world to do.  Well, it is quite easy once you learn the steps.  Here is a quick photo how-to on chopping onions. 

 Start by chopping onion vertically in half, be sure to leave the bulb end attached on both halves.  The next photo shows more clearly how the bulb end should look.

 

 

 

 

As you can see in this photo the bulb end is still on both halves of the onion.  Leaving the bulb in tact helps when you are slicing the onion.

 

 

 

 

 Peel the papery outside skin off the onion. 

 

 

 

 

 

Now here comes the tricky part.  Slice through the onion horizontally towards the bulb end. Make sure you don’t slice all the way through the bulb end, your onion won’t stay in tact and will become very difficult to work with.  Make three or four horizontal slices.  Turn the sliced onion to face you.

 

 

Now make vertical incisions with the onion facing you.  The more slices you make in either direction the smaller the dice of onion you will get.

 

 

 

 Turn the onion 90°.  You are now ready to chop through the onion.  Making sure your fingers are curled under, make slices across the onion.  Finish cutting through the onion toward the bulb end.  Repeat the same procedure with the other half of the onion.