Eureka! (or how to cut onions with no tears)

[bloviatrix]

  Toliver said:

I was also surprised to discover that green onions can cause me to tear up, as well.  Granted I was chopping up about a crate full, but by the end I was crying like a Tammy Faye Baker.

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Even chives can make me tear up!!! Blovie keeps razzing me that as long as I tear over onions I'll never be taken seriously as a home cook. And contrary to Soba's comment that he's less suseptible to the fumes, I've gotten more sensitive over time.

  Carolyn Tillie said:

So those of us with perfect vision will just have to continue suffering while chopping onions.....   

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Have you ever wanted an excuse to change your eye color with tinted lenses? This is your chance.

[dougery]

I just watch a Seattle Mariners game while cutting onions... If I'm going to cry it might as well have a purpose.

[tsquare]

  memesuze said:

I'm a swim goggles and very sharp knife woman myself - the bread [or cracker] in the mouth never worked for me - I think the theory is that breathing through the mouth minimizes tears

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If tears = flavor, okay. (Ala "Like Water for Chocolate")

A very experienced and reliable cook recently told me that newly harvested, fresh onions don't make you tear - old onions do. I've found this to be true - and the sweet fresh onions have plenty of flavor.

[scott123]

  tsquare said:

If tears = flavor, okay. (Ala "Like Water for Chocolate")

A very experienced and reliable cook recently told me that newly harvested, fresh onions don't make you tear - old onions do. I've found this to be true - and the sweet fresh onions have plenty of flavor.

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I disagree. Fresh onions have a higher water content than older onions. More water = less flavor.

[Kapuliperson]

Damn, what about us who don't need glasses? Or should we just borrow? :p