Could be preference or could just be that they did something that worked and stuck with it, assuming they weren’t attending dinner parties with each other and seeing differing techniques.
I also wonder how closely they can be dated. +/- 100 years is a long time and I would expect that's a smaller interval than provided by their dating methods.
Still, Neanderthal dinner parties are nice to imagine.
That’s true.
Haha yeah. Put on their best pelts or whatever and bring their best fermented berry mash. Stay up all night ooga booga’ing around the fire.
Yeah. I think it would be more surprising if they all did things the same way.
Totally
debating the best way to chop an onion
I get their point, but this is one of the few things I've actually never seen debated. Your options are very limited by the shape you want the finished product in.
I've seen a few ways for chopped onion. Chopped meaning that we want reasonably small consistent size pieces.
Root on, halved through the N & S poles, one half laid flat, vertical N/S cuts, leaving connection to root intact, cuts parallel to table almost to root, latitude cuts moving to the root end. Then a final cleanup chop of the large pieces from the root end.
Same as 1 but no parallel to table cuts. More cleanup chop at the end.
Same as 1 but radial longitudinal cuts instead of vertical.
Same as 2 but radial longitudinal cuts instead of vertical.
Same as 1 but without halving the onion first. Done in the hand.
Same as 4 but without halving the onion first. Done in the hand.
Same as 4 but root off before halving.
Same as 7 but latitude cuts before radial.
Same as 8 but latitude slices laid flat before radial cuts.
Same as 7 but root off after halving.
Same as 8 but root off after halving.
Nana method, higgledy piggledy paring knife action in the hand.
Classical western method is 1. Both 2 and 4 are very common in restaurant settings in my experience. I like method 8. Any other way feels either too fiddly or too sloppy. But I have seen each of these in action.
12 is how you slice through a major tendon in the palm and permanently impair the use of your fingers. Nana needs to be shown how to use a knife.
Nana has been shown many times how to use a knife
Seriously. Nana's gonna nana.
Git gud scrub
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MSgZN8VRj84
(I've seen a vid where the guy's faster and using a bigger knife but I can't find it rn)
Yes! The method in that video is exactly what I meant by #6.
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