onions..........?

Question

I've just started my appentaship as a cook and want to become a chef with my own place to serve out the best food that money can buy. My chef has given me a day of cutting onions as to finding how to use a knife in the propper way. I have no problem with this, it's a good idea I think, but how do you get the smell of onions out of the palm of my hands.......thanks.

I've tried washing them and even watered down bleach but to no avail.

Answer 1

Lemon juice. It will take the smell right out. Next time to help put a thin coat of vasaline on you hand first that way the smell doesnt penetrate as much. Good Luck

Answer 2

Rubbing lemon juice on those hands will probably erradicate most of the smell, but after a whole day of onions, your bound to smell like an onion patch for a while, because the smells sticks not only to your hands, but the rest of your skin, and your hair. Wash your clothes with a bit of baking soda to get the stench out of the cloth. Good luck!

Answer 3

Here are three ways:)

Mix a ratio of two level tablespoons of baking soda to a glass of water and soak hands for 30 seconds to a minute. Also great for getting rid of these smells/burning from mouth

Pour two tablespoons of table salt into your palm, mix with a little water and wash hands with this mixture, rinse, and add a little lotion to your hands. The salt not only cleans the smell from your hands; but, it also sluffs old skin off and softens hands.

Just run water over your hands while holding a stainless steel spoon or other utensil in your fingers. This has been working for my family for years. Ask a chemistry teacher if you want to know why it works

Answer 4

Try rubbing them with lemon juice then with a stainless steel spoon like you are washing your hands thoroughly. After this, wash with dish soap under running water. Make sure to include your wrists as well. This should help, but, after a whole day of onions, your whole body and all your clothes may smell like onion. Washing your clothes with some vinegar or baking soda added to the washer will help with them.

Good luck with your training!

Answer 5

I've heard all those tricks before, and I do know the stainless steel spoon works. However, don't they have surgical gloves there for handling raw meats or making sandwiches? I use gloves when I remember. Chop up the onions, take the gloves of, toss 'em in the trash. No onion hands!

Answer 6

hey pal working in kitchen most of my life , when ever you take a time go find a lemon. take and cut that boy in half and squezze it right in your hands as hard as you can. the acid in the lemon will cut the onion smell and the scent of the lemon will make them smell good , just watch for the women you smell in so good, and if there any plastic aprons around wear on when cutting any thing that smell or stains . hang in there its a long road and keep the passion. bacondebaker

Answer 7

Wash your hands in very cold water. Hot or cold water causes the smell to stick to your hands. Lemon juice and cold water will always get rid of the smell.

Answer 8

I sliced and minced for freezing about 100 pounds of onions one time. Nothing really gets the smell out of your skin.

Volunteer for "pearl diving" following the onion chopping. Continuous washing of dishes diminishes the smell as much as anything else!!

Answer 9

Sure thing lemon works.

You have chosen a very hard career.

But if you enjoy the pace - I wish you the very best of luck for the future.
If you need to buy only one cook book make it "The Silver Spoon" - it'l set you back £25 - worth every penny and you will need a wheelbarrow to bring it home......xxx

Answer 10

Rub a peice of stanless steel between your hands. This is a old cooks trick. I'm a old cook