How to Cut Onions & Lemons for Salmon

Video Transcript

"Chef Schmoll here on expertvillage.com, making some delicious poached salmon. I call it poached. I'll explain later. We're going to slice an onion. We needs some onions. So this is too easy. What we're going to do is just slice off the ends here. And cut it in half. Now, see I put the onion flat down there. And hold the onion away from you. It keeps the oils and gases, the chemicals that make you cry, keeps them from getting in your face. And it reduces the amount of tearing. So we don't need the whole onion, but what I want to do is cut this into about eight thin slices like so. Very easy. Easy easy, and that's about all we need of sliced onion. But I also need to keep slicing, because we need lemon. Nothing goes better with fish than lemon. It gives it a little acid. And on the same cutting board it's ok to mix onions and lemons together. It's all going in the same place anyway. And there's nothing to cross contaminate. So here we want to make very thin slices. Like sixteenth inch slices of lemons. Isn't that pretty? And you'll see the pits there; we want to pick out the pits before we actually use them. And I'll show you, you can just take it with the edge of your knife. You just kind of poke out the pits. They just fall right out. Just kind of wiggle them out of there, and it gets rid of the pits. So keep clicking, and we will show you how to put together the fish, and get it ready for the oven. Keep clicking."