Is there any cure for onion tears?

Answer 1

Run it under cold water.
Or you can get a food chopper (Pamper Chef or a generic one from Wal-Mart) and you can cut it up so quickly that you don't get the tears.
Or get an Ulu knife & Cutting board. It is so easy to cut it up with this that again you don't get the tears.


Good Luck!

Answer 2

Put the unpeeled onion in the freezer and leave it there for about ten minutes.
Put on some sort of glasses. Tears are caused by the juices from the onion getting in your eyes and irritating them.
Remove the onion from the freezer and peel it. The onion can now be sliced, chopped, or minced without tears.

***Hey...I learned something today!



Tips
Alternate methods:
Simply keep your onions in the fridge along with other veggies and you will never cry when chopping them - it's that simple!
If you use a sharp knife, there shouldn't be any tears. An onion makes you cry because acid is being released from the onion. Using a dull knife crushes the onion rather than cutting it, releasing far more of this acid into the air.
Try holding a wooden spoon or a piece of bread between your teeth while cutting. This significantly reduces the irritation to the eyes.
Keep your mouth open and breathe through it while cutting onions to reduce the amount of tears.
Do the peeling and dicing of the onion in your kitchen sink area. But first turn on the water faucet (the spray works better) and try to peel and dice your onion behind the running water. The sulfur gas from the onion will hit the running water and becomes sulfuric acid and washes away before it hits your eyes.
Bring a pot of water to boil until it starts steaming. Then remove from heat and put the pot on the kithen counter and start peeling and dicing your onions in the vicinity. The steam from the pot will trap the sulfur gas emitted from the onions before it hits your eyes.
Burn a candle on the counter near where you're cutting the onion. It'll burn off the fumes that cause eye irritation. A scented candle also smells better than raw, chopped onion!
You can also avoid tears simply by chewing a piece of gum while you are cutting the onion.
Try holding 5-7 wooden matches in your teeth (unlit of course); it will absorb the odor. The matches with red tips work best. Match stick tips have sulfur (S) in them and the sulfur gas (S) emited from onions hits these tips before getting to your eyes and becomes S2 that is neutral.
Put a fan behind you and towards the onions to blow the sulfur gases away from you.
Let the water run in the sink, while you peel the onions at the sink itself.
If you have contacts, wear them.
Grandma always held a silver spoon in her mouth while peeling onions. I tried it and it worked!

Fill your sink with water and peel and cut the onion under water. Works every time.***



Warnings
Onions that have been frozen raw may tend to be slightly mushy after thawing. Pan fry it before cooling and putting into an airtight container and freeze.

Answer 3

When you go to cut the onion leave the end intact ( the part
where the roots are) that will help they say that is where most of the fumes come from. Then Scrub your hands with salt
that will take off the smell.
Are better yet by chopped onions in the frezzer section of your local store

Answer 4

Try soaking the onions in warm water, then chop them. The onion juice should have leaked out of the onion and gone into the water.

Answer 5

Rinse the knife in cold water between cuts, wear goggles, have a fan blowing at the onion away from you. Any one of these will work.

Answer 6

Put your onion in the freezer for 5 minutes before cutting....it will eliminate the juices from going airborne to your eyes!

Answer 7

sure. i have extremely sensitive eyes so the best way i've found to avoid the tears is ..... i have my husband do it for me. i know i'm a weinie. lol however there are things u can buy that u just put the onion in and pull the handle down and it slices or dices them. my method works better though. lol lol

Answer 8

if u cut the onion under cold running water, there will be no tears.

Answer 9

Table Talk sells onion goggles.

Answer 10

YES!!! ok put the onion in the freezer for 15 min before you peel it i swear to you you wont tear up!!!!