How to Peel an Onion
When researching cooking tips for beginners, it's handy to learn a few onion facts. It's useful to find out kitchen tips to keep tearing to a minimum, as well as ways to get onion smell off of your hands and of course, how to peel an onion. Read on to learn how. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Wash your hands and cutting board thoroughly to get rid of unwanted germs. Place the onion on the cutting board and hold securely in place with your less dominant (non-writing) hand; keeping your fingers off to one side of the onion.
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Grasp a sharp chef's knife firmly and slice the edge off the onion, on the opposite side as your hand. Take care to avoid your fingers.
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Put down the knife, and hold the onion cut side up in your secondary hand. Use the thumbnail of your primary hand to pull a flap of the brown, fragile skin away from the onion. Grab this skin and pull away. Pull the skin off in sheets, and discard in the trash. (Note: You can use the knife instead to pull away onion layers, but the thumbnail method is a safer, more efficient option).
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Proceed peeling away onion layers. As you proceed to the center of the onion, they will go from dark, papery sheaves to lighter colored, more flexible pieces. Continue in this fashion until you reach a somewhat sticky film on the light colored onion. This is the last layer that you need to remove. You can rub at the edges or get under this layer with the edge of your knife in order to get a hand hold. Peel this final layer away from the onion and your onion is ready for use.
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Tips & Warnings
To keep from crying while peeling an onion, you can peel while holding the onion completely under cold water, breathe through your mouth or chew gum. (Gum chewing produces saliva, which leads to swallowing. Swallowing holds the tears at bay).
To remove onion odor from hands and wooden cutting boards, wipe with a lemon wedge and allow to sit for several minutes before rinsing.
Comments
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The philosophy of 'ONION-PEELING"; It needs two hands, energy, right improvisation, perhaps a knife and more; but you get nothing at the end.Rather you cut the finger if not doing it right. And you learn a lesson that peeling an onion and peeling a banana are two different things. You don't do both the things the same way and also0 the results are not similar. The important thing to learn here is about the energy, the hands, knife and more, but put improvisation on top of every thing just said above on the 'ONION PEELING". Important: Forget not those among us who are less fortunate in having the energy, the limbs and the relevant resources to do this seemingly most simple act.
