It's funny seeing people dunking on taking this much effort to analyze onion cuts. The rewards for improving your onion dice are indeed probably low. But in mainstream western cooking, you need to do it almost every meal, and the analysis/learning is a one-time cost rather than a cost applied at every prep. Seems like an extremely reasonable thing to noodle on!

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dfxm12 4 days ago | parent [-]

People are dunking on the fact that "mathematically optimal" is meaningless in this situation.

Even Lopez-Alt suggests, "It matters far more for winning internet debates and solving interesting math problems than it does for cooking."

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tptacek 4 days ago | parent [-]

The mathematical verification doesn't matter, but:

* Radial is more convenient than the classic horizontal cut.

* Radial with an origin below the cutting board is a better outcome than naive radial with almost zero extra effort.

All this to say: it was worth figuring that out!

	▲	account42 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Except: * The spacing and angle of your cuts is going to vary much more if you are doing something more complex than top down cuts negating any gain in consistency. * The outcome of the final dish isn't really any better so it doesn't matter at all.