Context: having seen the most recent video here, I figured it was a good time to bring up the math-driven analysis that u/J_Kenji_Lopez-Alt did back in 2021. It's since driven me to "aim below the center" almost every time I cut an onion.
Original post from Kenji here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CV6L30MBFy8/
by lifeofthunder
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The rest of us knew it ages before then.
I just realised that the spacing between cuts should be the width of one onion layer.
If the space between cuts isn’t equal to layer’s width, we end up with uneven pieces no matter which cutting method we use.
Onions.. so simple, yet do hard to master.
Praise the onion 🧅
Im Not slicing horizontally.
I’ve been doing the third one for decades and I like it. But like, what are these graphs? Both the size and standard deviation are in percent? For the size, percent of what, bulb radius? For the standard deviation, percent of the size or percent of the same basis as the size? And which side of the vertical axis goes with which line?
Yeah I’m not interested in doing trigonometry whenever I cut an onion, vertical is fine thanks
Imo the best cut for almost every meal is just making onion rings (cutting end to end)
I see no way adding a horizontal cut would reduce the standard deviation… Unless it, and every other cut is perfectly oriented, the horizontal cut would result in a great deal of abnormally tiny pieces.
I try to do the radial cut towards the center but stop short of a layer if it will make a piece too small
Fuck *yessss!*
This is the shit I love to ***seeeee!***
Is there like an apple press / slicer type device that can do this ?
Kenji didn’t do the analysis, his mathematician friend did.
I did not know I needed this. Thank you!
Is it just me or is this not how you cut an onion
