have you ever noticed that if you shop at the farmers market the stuff doesn't come chopped up in little cubes for you already it doesn't come in microwavable trays chef's secret number three is learning how to use a chef's knife the number one tool in your kitchen and using this correctly can change your life and people that stop being afraid of it always thank me they sent on love chopping stuff up now because previously they had a chopper dieser device and my next-door neighbor has every chopper dieser device known to mankind on QVC probably all night long just dial in like crazy so I'm gonna have a race with her chakra dieser device and my onion well first of all we have an onion so we got to cut the onion in half to at least fit it in the chopper diseño device and get the skin off she goes over to the cabin up here gets a chopper dice advice puts it down on the cabin has to plug it in then you got the bowl bowl never quite fits right so gotta play with the ball a little bit finally bowl clicks down then you got the blade blades got to go in there blade doesn't quite fit right all the time finally the blade clicks and then you got the end but the only other chopper dice advice you got the lid you put the lid on 350 to chop the onion turn the onion out then you got the ball you got to rinse out the bowl over here you gotta take the blade blade comes out this goes in the sink over here chopper ice invite you got to unplug take the top advice advice this goes in the cabinet up there oh my goodness give a chef's knife no moving parts easily wipes clean this is the number one tool in your kitchen if you're like my mom my mom has a serrated steak knife that she got with a tank of gas in 1972 and when they gave stuff what you gotta take to get well this serrated steak knife cuts vegetables cleans fish takes tags off new clothing tightens the light switch screw it's a general household hardware device if you're like my mom please get a chef's knife so I've developed this way to cut an onion occurs in so many dishes cutting an onion is such an important skill and knife skills is my number three chef's secret problem with an onion it's a rollie pollie product particularly dangerous to try and cut something it's rolling around the cutting board onion has a root end grows down into the dirt has a blossom end grows up to the sky the root end is our friend the root end holds the onion together so to avoid this Rolie Polie product thing first thing I'm going to do is make a cut from root end to blossom in and give myself a nice flat surface to work off I had a woman in one of my classes she cut the onion and she goes what now said you're kind of missing the point of a flat surface to work off so now that we have a flat surface will take the blossom end off peel the onion and what I want to do in essence is make a checkerboard in here I'm going to make one two maybe three horizontal cuts one two three four or so vertical cuts then I'm going to use my tip fulcrum method to dice the onion it falls apart inconsistent pieces one of my first problems here is that my knuckles hit the cutting board so cutting board to the edge of the table knife to the onion to the edge of the cutting boards on my knuckles fall below the surface of the board from heel to tip first cut but not all the way back to the root so I have this nice horizontal cut in the onion and the onion stays together second horizontal cut but not all the way back to the root and I've got these two horizontal cuts the onion stays together using the tip of the knife one two three all right we'll call it for now I've got this checkerboard fashion in here and the onion stays together so if you take this down to the outback tell them to soak it in water overnight beer batter it deep fry it a five thousand calorie appetizers is yours that basically how they do it so now with that checkerboard fashion cut in the onion tip fulcrum method and I've got an onion the falls apart inconsistent pieces in one two three four five six ten night strokes or so I can go home 45 minutes these are the ruminations in my head at that time you don't need chopper dieser devices nor do you need a set of 24 9 you need basically four knives in your kitchen to see these sets of knives that come with like 12 steak knives anyone ever cooked twelve states that they just really / / sell these things nor does a good knife cut a shoe or a can but in insulting