The Opinionated Bastard

Here's a cooking tip:

Cut the onions first.

Why? Well, the real tip is that if you rub your hands with celery after cutting onions, it will remove the smell from your hands (which seems to be hard to wash off with regular soap).

Except that's much more complicated to remember, and it works for other vegetables besides celery.

So I just cut the onions first, because I rarely use onions alone so if I just cut them first by the time I've cut all the other vegetables, the onion smell has been driven away.

This is especially useful this time of year if you're making stuffing: cut the onions first, then the celery, then transfer the celery to the mixing bowl by scooping it off the cutting board with your hands rather then scraping.

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