This is a little plastic module with teeth at one edge that you run along an ear of corn to remove the kernels. Kitchen magic! It does for onions what my corn stripper does for corn kernels. The machine gives a satisfying whump and you have instant, perfectly uniform chunks of onion. Set a half or a quarter of the onion flat side down on the dicer and pushed down the lid with your palm. But it’s the onion dicing that is the real timesaver, especially when you have multiple onions to dice. There’s also a slicer blade, which I sometimes use for mushrooms. The dicer has three sets of blades, two of which (rough dice and fine dice) can handle onions. You put an open onion in it, twist it shut, and your onion is saved without smelling up the fridge. It’s a plastic onion-shaped container that opens in the middle with a twist. The onion keeper I picked up one day in the supermarket. Many of them aren’t worth the trouble, but I have two onion gadgets that really work: the onion keeper and the onion dicer. I am a sucker for kitchen gadgets–for me the Williams Sonoma or Chef’s Catalog is a kind of kitchen porn.
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