Cooking is a fun activity for many people, but preparing food can often make it difficult. We find it a big hassle to chop vegetables, boil and peel the ingredients and do other such processes before the actual cooking. Chopping onions in particular is a laborious activity that we grapple with. From time to time we come across some techniques that can make the process of cutting onions easier. However, a recent viral hack has us blown away by its ingenuity. The life-changing hack was shared on the Instagram reels and has been going viral ever since. Onion hack is not only time saver but also gives great results. Watch full video here:
Cookbook author and nutritionist Melanie Lionello took to her Instagram handle @frommylittlekitchen to share this incredible hack. In clipWe saw how he peeled the onion but kept the root intact. Then, he turned it upside down and grabbed the onion by the root. He used his chef’s knife to make a subsequent incision in the onion. Then, he laid it to the side and sliced the onion layer by layer to have a perfectly chopped onion in minutes!
“This hack is going to save so many tears!! This is how you slice a whole onion in under 30 seconds, tell me I’m not the only one learning this TechniqueChef wrote in his post.
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With this hack, you can chop onions quickly and easily.
Chef Melanie’s video has gone viral, garnering over 13.4 million views and 805k likes in a matter of days. Thousands of users also praised the onion hack in the comment section. “Wait what?! Still years old today,” said one user, while another wrote, “That’s awesome. No, I didn’t even know!” Some others also agreed, “Oh my god! That makes a lot of sense! Love it.” some houses chef There were also some questions for the hack, like, “Where can you find them so small?” Another suggested, “If it’s cut in half first, it won’t move around. That way the pieces won’t even be shaped!”
We will definitely try this time saving and easy hack to cut onions today. What did you think of the viral onion cutting video? Tell us in the comments section.
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