How to slice an onion

Chef Skills

Michelin star Chef Russel Brown takes us through how to slice an onion. A simple process that requires good knife skill and practice, this is used as a basic preparation for young Chefs and industry professionals as part of their basic training.

For this demonstration, I'm going to show you how to peel and slice an onion. So we've got our standard brown onion here and I'm just going to trim off the root, but I'm leaving the root intact still were taking the top off and then were just going to peel down and a lot of this is easiest to do with your fingers just peeling the skin off the onion and just make sure that when you do this if there's a papery layer that feels a bit tough underneath go down one more layer to take that off.

So we've got our peeled onion which I'm just going to wash the onions at this stage because you don't want to wash them after they've been diced or sliced because you'll lose a lot of the flavour so we've got our washed onion and I'm going to show you how to slice this, we're going to cut the onion in half