Dicing Onions to Make Gazpacho

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'll be making a quick and easy traditional Spanish Gazpacho. Next up the onions. I've taken the liberty of putting these in the freezer for about five minutes. Because a cold onion is much easier on the eyes than a warm onion. So you don't want to freeze them. I just put them in the freezer to put some chill on them. If you freeze them, they'll be disgusting. So make sure you don't freeze them. What we're doing here is, let's get this paper and stuff off these first before I start cutting them up. Because otherwise this stuff will get all mixed up with the onion. Alright so we're just going to peel this over the bowl here so we don't make a big mess. And if you have to lose the whole top layer, it's not a big deal. It's just an onion. It's not like it's covered in gold or anything. Unless it is a gold covered onion. In which case, don't waste any of it. Especially the outside cause that's the part that's covered in gold. Alright, there's that half. So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to move fast on these cause I don't want to have to deal with onions. So we're just going to make some vertical cuts like this. Make some nice cross cuts like that to get a very small dice. Like I said, the smaller we cut it now, the less work we have to do later with the hand blender. And it looks like I've spoken way too soon, because these are really starting to burn my eyes. Bad onions, naughty, naughty onions. Also you want to make sure you don't serve that end piece in there, because the end piece does not taste very good at all. I should have some goggles to do this. Welders mask or something because this is really, really hurting my eyes and I even put these in the refrigerator for a while. I can imagine if I'd had them at room temperature how much worse it would be on me. You don't have to worry about uniformity at this point because these are getting pureed. But we just need to make sure that they are small, so. That being said, one more half to go. Almost there. And I can put these somewhere where they can't hurt me anymore. There we go. Alright, let's hide these things somewhere really far away so my eyes will stop burning."