cooking skills is chopping an onion – so it's surprising how many of us get it totally wrong. Michelin-trained chef Poppy O'Toole, known to her 1.4 million TikTok followers as Poppy Cooks, responded to a question from a fan about how to finely chop an onion properly.Promising her trick would "change your life", Poppy shows how it is really done and says: "This is one of the first techniques you learn when becoming a chef."In a video demonstration, Poppy first chops off the top of the onion and then slices it in half lengthways and peels it.She warns not to slice through to the root and tells people to cut vertically "about six times"."Then you warn to turn your onion and start chopping it, you want to use your knuckle as a protector or else.
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