angery ouch

  • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    Not a fan of shredded, you can't really sharpen the blade so it's always going to spray everything

    If you're that lazy pulse it in a food processor

    I just cut the onion with a knife like a civilized person meow-knife-trans

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      I just cut the onion with a knife like a civilized person

      Literally one of the easiest veggies to process by hand lol. Mother nature has already done some of the cuts for you with all the layers!

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        2 months ago

        a good brunoised onion literally makes me feel like a magician, as if i would let some godless machine steal that joy from me

          • Dolores [love/loves]
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            2 months ago

            i'd let machines horde that pleasure if i was getting paid, i enjoy a casual amount of knifework in a casual setting

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 months ago

      Shreded like with a chese grater, you know the thing

      Un rallador

      • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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        2 months ago

        exactly, those things are impossible to sharpen if they get dull and then you're less shredding the onion and more grinding it into a pulp and spraying onion juice everywhere

      • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        I know the thing! I just mean you can't really sharpen those curved blades.

        After repeated use/storage if you look at them under magnification they're almost always jacked up, which may be fine for carrots or potatoes but leads to the spray when shredding onions

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    Oh no, definitely a mistake! My spouse suggests trying to hold a spoon in your mouth the whole time while cutting an onion.

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        "I don't know why it helps, it just does?"

        My guess is probably a sensory component of having your mouth open, and maybe the stainless steel does something?

        Only thing that's ever worked for me is entirely not cutting the core of the onion, like just removing the middle 2cm around the root all the way to the tip.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 months ago

          Eh fair,

          Onions usually don't affect me, but when the batch comes powerful, using any kind of glasses helps. If you have safety- or swimming- goggles even better

        • Dolores [love/loves]
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          2 months ago

          an open mouth exposes more water to bind to the gas before it gets to your eyes, but most solutions involving adding water to the process don't appreciably change results in my experience (rinsing, application, or basin)

          i think you just pick a placebo and suffer when an onion is particularly pungent lol

          • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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            2 months ago

            I cut them in half and rinse the halves under rubbing water while rubbing them together, I think it helps a lot

  • Truffle@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Freeze it then shred it. El rallador funciona bien si es de buena marca, yo uso un victorinox que tengo hace años.