Top onion chopping tip

A la Viz top tips, here's mine to completely stop you crying whilst chopping onions. I really suffer from this and if you don't mind looking a bit of a nob in the kitchen this works. Ready?

Ski goggles! Simple but works perfectly.

my ski goggles ventilate too well. Swimming goggles work much better. Less stupid-looking is having a fan blow across your workspace.

I used to use my Oakley onion protective wear regularly to cut onions. Works really well

Oops, I was rushing to see if there was any tip on how to chop it?

I chop onions almost daily and I always cry (ok, I am a girl...)
I never tought it is a problem! Just an eye wash, bio collyrium, what is wrong with it?

Shove a slice of bread in your mouth while chopping. Not the whole slice mind you, you have to leave enough flopping out to absorb the nasty onion fumes.

Please tell me you guys are all joking.

soak the onion in hot water before you chop, takes the sting away, without affecting the flavour of the onion.

Stick a desertspoon in your mouth. Upsidedown

Let someone else do it for you

Keep your mouth open, inhale through your mouth, exhale through your nose. Or use a blender/chopper gadget.

None of those silly wive's tales methods work. I tried them all in high school as an experiment. Most are pretty damned silly if you think about it. Someone want to explain the magical properties of a dessert spoon held in the mouth? And why these powers only work if the spoon is upside down? And what supersulfurmagnetic properties does white bread have?

Warm water will make the juices more likely to spray, and further. You've built up pressure in the cells.

There are two ways to cut an onion without crying: good eye protection or cutting the onion underwater. The latter is difficult, especially with the itsy-bitsy german sinks, but that's it. The knife slices through the onion, cells are split, the juice has a clear path to your eyes and the sulfur compounds in them are what burn.

Or HIBT?

woof.

Maybe that's where the swimming-goggles come in handy?

It hurts to much to suck it holding it the other way up for any length of time.
Its supposed to close the tear ducts.
I don't know or care if it is scientific or not, seemed to work for my nan.

Nah,
it's the naughty onion elves spitting invisible onion juice in your eyes. They are frightened of upside down spoons. My nan told me.

spoons, machoons, nonense. go fer goggles!!! do it, it's great, it works, you'll love it (and maybe me) for ever!!! anyway, my wife now lets me chop all the onions. photo to follow soon...