cut onions without crying?

Answer 1

Cutting onions under water or chilling them before cutting.

Some other suggestions people have mentioned for preventing tears when working with onions include:

Keep the root on while peeling and chopping. A variation of this is to cut from the top leaving the root end intact until the last cut!

Be in a well-ventilated place and cut fast!

Use a good, sharp chef's knife. It glides through the onion with ease, allowing less of the compounds that cause tears to come out.

Wear a pair of safety goggles or a cheap, disposable painter's mask.

Put a slice of bread in your mouth, with half of it sticking out to "catch" the fumes.

Put some white vinegar on the chopping board before cutting.

Burn a candle immediately adjacent to where you're cutting. The tear-causing gas is drawn toward the heat source.

Purchase pre-chopped onions.

After cutting the onions (and garlic), a suggestion that may help remove the smell from your hands is to run cool tap water over your hands while rubbing them across a stainless steel utensil, such as the bowl of a stainless steel spoon. If you have been cutting a lot of onions, this may not be as effective.

Answer 2

cut the onions root first then peel.sit them in 2 inches of ice water in the fridge for a few hours...this will help immensly.some onions are just kickin but this should diminish the gas quite a bit.
oh yea,sit the onions root down so they draw the water into the tuber.

Answer 3

I love to cook but hate cutting onions. I always put on my ski goggles when I cut onions. It works great and I look great while doing it. :)

Answer 4

Try not to breathe in too close to the onion, that is why you tear up. I try to hold my breath for a few seconds, turn my head to breathe, and repeat. And keep a ceiling fan on. Sounds silly, but that all really works I promise.

Answer 5

Cut them in the sink, next to a stream of running water.

The tasty ingredient in onions vaporizes and mixes with your tears (eyeball fluid) to form sulfuric acid.

The running water will take the vapor away.

Answer 6

submerge the onion into a bowl of water then do ur cut under the water.

Answer 7

use a piece of bread lay the onion on top. try to get a yellow instead of white.

Answer 8

Cut them on a board in the sink while you are running cold water over them. No tears at all!

Answer 9

Martha Stewart says to burn a candle near the cutting board as you cut to burn off the fumes that cause you to tear up.

Answer 10

avoid smelling the onions