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a machine that turns your knife skills into a feature you no longer have
means A tool or machine that chops food into small, uniform cubes, sparing you the labor (and skill) of doing it by hand.
from From "dice," the verb meaning to cut into small cubes, plus the agent suffix "-er" that turns a deed into a doer. "Dice" itself comes from the plural of "die," the little cube you roll in games — Middle English "dee," borrowed from Old French "de," likely from Latin "datum," "something given" (as in a thrown or set piece). So the kitchen "dicer" is, etymologically, a maker of tiny edible cubes that share a bloodline with the gambler's dice.
- grid logic
- Push food through a blade grid in one stroke
- speed
- Cubes a whole onion faster than you can blink
- hidden cost
- Cleaning the blade matrix takes longer than chopping
- industrial scale
- Factory dicers process tons of vegetables per hour
- origin
- Borrows its name from cutting things into dice
anthony bourdain — chef and tv host famous for his knife skills and dicing technique on parts unknown
gordon ramsay — chef known for rapid, precise dicing demonstrations on hell's kitchen and masterchef
world record dice throw — fastest dice throw competition tracked at gaming tournaments, fastest recorded ~8 throws per second