On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 8:44:36 AM UTC-4, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> Helpful person wrote:
> >Taxed and Spent wrote:
> >>
> >> slicing vs chopping. Chopping is crushing. Expect to cry if you are
> >> crushing the acid out of the onions.
> >
> >No it's not. Onions can be chopped as fine as you like by slicing if the knife is sharp.
>
> With a very sharp knife onions can sliced and cross sliced paper thin.
> For very finely minced onion I prefer to use a grater, it's faster...
> new graters should be sharpened, use a jeweler's file to remove the
> stamping burrs from each piercing, doesn't take long and makes a huge
> difference. Fumes can be dispersed with a fan or bring the project
> outdoors and stand up wind.

For mincing I use a press. I'm not skilled enough to dice them that fine with a knife.

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