The food lab better home cooking through science ( PDFDrive ) 965

STEP 3: MAKE THE HORIZONTAL CUTS Hold the shallot from the top (never from the sides!) and make one or two horizontal incisions, keeping the shallot intact at the root end STEP 4: MINCE Make another series of vertical slices at a 90-degree angle to the original series To chop it even finer, rock the knife back and forth across the minced shallot until reduced to the desired consistency