How To Medium Dice

Grasp the knife in your dominant hand, holding the handle close to the blade with three fingers: your middle, ring, and pinkie. Curl your forefinger around one side of the blade while holding your thumb on the opposite side.

With your non-knife-wielding hand, hold the vegetable firmly on the cutting board close to the area you will cut.

Cut off the ends of the vegetable.

Cut off the sides of the vegetable. It should now resemble a block with 4 long flat surfaces—this will make it easier to cut uniform pieces.

For a medium dice cut, you are aiming to make dice, or cubes, that are ½ inch on every side. Begin by slicing the vegetable lengthwise into uniform slabs ½ inch wide.

Stack the slabs on top of each other and again cut them lengthwise into ½ inch wide sticks. You now have a “wood pile” of ½ inch-thick sticks.

Line up the pile of sticks, and make ½ inch crosscuts along their length, creating ½ inch cubes. That’s a medium dice.