How much do you hate cutting onions? Man, my eyes sting SO SO SO bad when I cut them, and after I cut them my fingers smell like onions for a few days, regardless of how many times I was them. f**king sucks.

SHARE YOUR ONION CUTTING STORIES HERE PLZ.

my questions, what are in onions that make you tear?
anywho, i hate cutting onions, or somebody else in my household cutting them (i usually run to the library when this happens)

I don't cut onions. :D Whenever I need them, I ask my aunt to cut them. I'm SOOO bad.

They say that if you dip the knife in like water every time you cut it, it shouldn't make you cry.

I can cut onions without crying. My daddy has a technique that he showed me to prevent crying when cutting them.

i just look in the other direction/close my eyes and cut them.
practice makes perfect!

on my bad days though, i just look. it doesn't bother me much.

It's some sort of acid. Sulfur, I think.

Anyway, I think there are some tricks to cut onions so that it doesn't make you cry. It only makes my eye burn and tear up, but I don't look like a sobbing mess.

If you get your hands wet and rub them on stainless steel before you wash them it will take the onion smell right off.

I wear a bandana on my face when I cut onions.

If you chew a strong-flavoured gum when you cut up onions, you won't cry. :)

I use that closed-off cutting thing, I forgot what it was called but it had a commercial on television.

I heard about this too. Did you know they sell lumps of steel and call them "steel soap" for this purpose? Waste of money, I think.

Steel soap? Sounds like a marketing strategy targeted to the uninformed.

I've only cut onions in science, but I heard that if you chew gum whilst cutting them the tears go away

I don't cook much, so I don't actually spend a lot of time chopping onions, but it does bother me. If my mom's in the other room cutting into an onion, I definitely notice it, even from that distance. My eyes start to burn, and it's really uncomfortable, but I don't start tearing up or anything.

to all you people crying from cutting onions, hold your breath next time. the thing that makes you cry travels up your nostrils and through your tear ducts. kinda like when you have sinuses.

so i've been 'not breathing' everytime i cut, and i haven't teared in 6 years now. and i cut onions a lot 'cause i love onions ;x. and i personally think it's fun dicing them ;P.



it actually works. takes off the smell of onion and garlic from your hands. well, at least my hands ;].

wash the onions first then cut them. It helps.

when I hear onions I think of Shrek for some reason


Oh gosh,I can't stand onions! I remember watching on the Food Channel this restaurant that was ALL onion...there was even onion ice cream The taxi drivers wouldn't drive anybody from there because they're afraid they will stink up the car!

idk if someone already said this, but cut an onion as soon as you take it out of the fridge while its still cold. that should work, well it does for me

Wear goggles.

I never had a problem with cutting onions.

Wow, maybe I should try it then.

I've never been anywhere close to cutting an onion, but I sniffed one once just to see if I cried...it didn't happen.

Yeah because I have all these spare pairs of goggles lying around my house...

Goggles seem like a pretty sure-shot remedy.

aha, that's what i heard. i never cut onions. that's my mom's job [: last year for thanksgiving, my sister's boyfriend was cutting onions and he had a lotta tears in his eyes after he finished. my mom thought he cut his finger x]

i use a chopper. it saves on a lot of tears. another way is also covering your face. inhaling it is what makes you cry i think.