How to Dice an Onion Perfectly Every Time!

When I started cooking, I quickly learned that dicing an onion was an art of its own. I also learned from watching The Food Network that knife cuts are actually super important. Cutting pieces of food that you intend to cook as evenly as possible ensures that they cook evenly. For example, if you're making fajitas, you don't want your peppers to be sliced unevenly. The thick ones will take longer to cook and then the thin ones will over cook and be burned or soggy. Same idea applies to dicing an onion you intend to cook or serve raw. The diced onion pieces will cook evenly and the diced pieces that you serve raw as a topping for chili or tacos will just look really nice, too.

Here's how to dice an onion properly. It's much more simple than you'd think!

1. Cut the onion in half long ways. You want to cut through the two ends.

2. Cut off the stem end (as seen below), but leave the root end (with the little hairs, I like to call them!)

3. Slice most of the way through the onion, long ways. Do not cut all the way to the root. You need to leave that end in tact to hold together all the thin slices you'll be cutting.

4. Once you've slice through long ways, you're going to turn your onion and cut through it going in the opposite direction. This will create a beautiful dice on your onion. Watch the video below to see it in action!