For a moment, I thought that “the onion problem” related to some challenging issue of topology or group theory, before my brain finally sorted through its connections to identify Kenji Lopez-Alt as a chef and not a mathematician.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt _was_ actually mentioned (featured?) in alt-weekly The Onion this month. The problem, though, was that it was in an un-funny piece about the beef dimension, and it is not worth footnoting here. I guess they should have researched this 2021 article and spun off of it instead. But maybe a Quanta Magazine and infowars joint venture could enter the beef dimension. An onion with too many alt-layers.

He's not a chef either he's a food writer and recipe tester. I don't mean this as disrespect at all just they are very different professions, using different skills and producing different outputs.