How to Dice Onion an Omelets

Video Transcript

"Now that we have our pepper, tomato, and green onion diced, we'll do the onion. When you're slicing the onion, cut it lengthwise along the stem. I always do this with onions. When you're dicing the onion, you want to leave the stem on; that holds all the layers together. We'll leave the stem on, we'll take the outer edge or outer layer off. We want to keep the dice the same size as the peppers, like so. Go in twice, like so. Watch your thumb and fingers, then cut down, just like so. The reason for dicing the onion like this; you just want to go through the onion once. Some people will cut the onion, and they'll just chop, chop, chop, chop, and mutilate the onions. When you do that you're releasing all the juice from the onion, so it's best if you just go through one cut. You cut this way, this way, and chop it. That leaves all the flavor in the onion for you; otherwise, you'll leave most of the juice and flavor on the cutting board."