by Kami Bigler posted in Life & Home

Onions are one of the trickiest things to learn how to chop finely. Back when I was really into cooking shows, I loved learning how to finely chop an onion (with goggles on of course). Earlier I shared our favorite beef taco recipe and now I wanted to show how I finely chop the onion for the beef tacos.
Here's a shortcut. To start, cut a small piece off both ends of the onion and peel all the outside layers off.
Now slice it in half. Once you have it cut in half, you can see where the root end is. It's important to not start slicing at the root end first, because the root end keeps the onion sections together.

Now for the "easy way": Use a mandolin for super-thin uniform slices.
Last week I shared one of my favorite kitchen gadgets: ...