Lentil Chili and Thoughts on Chopping Vegetables

[unspeakablehorror]

Making lentil chili. One of the things I always find rather time consuming is chopping vegetables.  Like I see recipes that are just like--take a few minutes to chop these vegetables and I'm just 'haha a few minutes?' because that part has *never* gone quickly for me.  I just don't trust my dexterity like that. 

Comments

are we meticulous about cubes? Lengthy Vegetable Chopping Anonymous?

[rugessnome]

Same!

I kinda ...collect cookbooks and one I just used my Half Price Books coupon on has a bit in the intro chapter about "if it takes you more than a minute to coarsely chop an onion, you're doing it wrong" O.o

Admittedly, after I learned how Chef-people do it, I got a little faster, but it's still not... a "mere bagatelle"

Re: are we meticulous about cubes? Lengthy Vegetable Chopping Anonymous?

[unspeakablehorror]

A minute, huh? I don't think I could chop an onion that fast, either, haha. I don't use onions, but I do use shallots, which are much smaller, in place of them. Probably takes me at least 5 minutes to chop a single shallot.

Glad you were able to get faster at it! I should probably see if I can learn a chopping technique or two, but I think my extreme caution will still be a limitation on my speed regardless.