Basic Cooking: Chopping and Slicing

toSo basic but it can confuse a lot of people. Such as "How should I cut this?" or "Is it safe to this very quickly?" or even "Which side is sharp side?" If you don't know which side is sharp you can either test it on some food or your finger or check into a mental clinic (I'm only joking about the second one!) Now, let's start with a basic exercise.

Peeling and chopping the onion
Now start by putting the onion on the chopping board. To peel it cut the ends off and get your finger under the skin. Peel the loosest layers as you would peel and orange or mandarin, but several times. Now to chop it cut it from the end up in fine, thin pieces. Now put the onion lying down and cut it across. Then turn the pieces again and cut across as you did with the last one. You can now collect the pieces and fry them, perhaps.

That was fun! Some things need to be chopped into bigger pieces, like potatoes...

Chopping a potato unpeeled
Get a potato onto a chopping board. Cut it in half then the cut the halves in half. Congratulations! You just made chopped potato! You can fry it with the onions if you want or chop it into smaller pieces by chopping them in half again or as many times as you want.

See how good and useful those methods are?