How do you cut onions without crying?

Answer 1

put the chopping board under running water while youre cutting them

Answer 2

i always heard putting matchsticks in your mouth.
and let the red tipped end hang out like a cig.

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.

Answer 3

To avoid tears whe cutting onions,try cutting them under cold water or briefly placing them in the freezer before cutting, about 15 minutes.

Answer 4

When I was a child, I used to wear diving goggles. Now I go outside & chop them, if it's raining I just leave the door wide open & chop them near the door. Yesterday, my eyes were burning for hours, I tipped a bag of onion powder into a bucket & a cloud of dust flew up into my face, it looks so innocent but be warned, it's almost as bad as the real thing.

Answer 5

This was on Martha Stewart put the onion in the Freezer before cutting it I'm not sure how long but id say by guessing maybe 30min :)

Answer 6

Cut the top off peal the skin off to the root do not chop it off, slice onion from the top to the bottom just before getting to the root run under warm water then continue to cut the rest. chop as normal

Answer 7

get a bowl of water an cut the onion in the water

Answer 8

Cut both ends of the onions off first...and throw them away...wrap remaining onion in paper towel as you chop your other herbs... once you're done with that... presto... no crying when you cut up the onion

Answer 9

Get a large bowl of cold water and cut the onions in the bowl (while they stay underwater)

Can also cut in the sink under running cold water.

Answer 10

Take the skin off then cut in halves put it in water for 1/2 an hour u will not cry

Answer 11

Get a nice big cutting board and a knife. Then get one tall glass of ice cold water. Now call your wife. Ask her to cut the onions and go watch TV drinking your water. There you go my friend!