How can i keep my eyes from burning while cutting onions?!


Question: I heard that keeping the onions refrigerated or putting them in water would reduce its buring effects. But i find it no helpful.


Answers: I heard that keeping the onions refrigerated or putting them in water would reduce its buring effects. But i find it no helpful.

Here are a few methods that work:

1. put the onion in the freezer for about 5 minutes before cutting into it

2. squeeze a little bit of lemon juice on the cutting board you are using

3. put a wooden spoon in your mouth (old Italian method)

Try wearing sunglasses or goggles so that the fumes don't get to your eyes.

close your nose
I'm serious about it

use the purple ones they are not as strong as the white and yellow ones and use glasses

The colder the onions the better. Try putting them in the freezer for 15-20 minutes before cutting them. If that does not work and no one is around try wearing swimming goggles.

Keep a lighted votive candle next to your cutting board while working. The gas that causes your eyes to tear is burned up by the votive.

breathe through your mouth and not your nose it helps

A wooden spoon next to you will absorb some of the odor. You can also try cutting them under slow running water. Sounds odd but it works.

I cut my onions on a cutting board that I place on top of my stove with the overhead vent running on high, never shed a tear, it works every time.

Put in the freezer for ten minutes, then chop. I read this on a food website and it really does work. Don't keep in the fridge, then your other items will smell like onions - just keep out at room temperature, then put in freezer before you start cooking....if you chop up whole onion at once, you can freeze what ever is left so it doesn't go bad

cut the onion into 2 piece and put them in water for about 15 min and then cut i am sure it won't hurt u or if u don't feel relief then throw the onion in trash and never touch it

wash the onion before you cut it, it helped
me

put them in the freezer before u start 2 cook.





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