Does slicing onions makes you cry?

I have the same problem, I'm not a fast chopper but what I do is suck on a tea spoon while I'm chopping the onions and I don't cry. Try it next time to see if it works for you.

haha oh yes always but there are techniques that would not make you cry, like when you are about to slice the onions, dip first your knife in cold water... it works for me, why dont you try it?:D

Yes.., when i slicing onions my eyes going teary, cause i am not a good cooker, but my sister have told me, if i want to slice plenty of onions try to light on the matches, it will help you, and then i try it,and it works..

hey hi bhabytart
initially yes, i also used this big problem with onions!
but now my body has got used to it!!!
this will really happen with time, your body will adapt to the onion smell...
hence now on i dont cry when i slive onions...
-chirag
it hardly matters if you are a fast slicer or slow slicer!

i also cry too when i chop onions. but it does not make me cry all the time. i think that its not how fast you chop it. i think its the type of onion you chop. thats what my mom said to me, but she did not detail what was it. hehe

Hi There....I have absolutely no clue since as I told you before, I will never, ever, ever touch those wormy looking things! UGH!

Yes, I have the same problem. Its a good way to clean out your tear ducts. . Seriously though, I soak my onions in cold water before I slice them. I find that this works pretty good for me. I have a friend who freezes her onions for a bit before she slices them. She swears that works but I have never tried it. Have a great day and happy mylotting.

hai, yah it is big problem to them who are connected with kitchen. i seldom go to cook. but i know what is the best way to slice an onion. keep your hand and onion under water and slice it. there is an another way, keep an onion on the point of your knife and then slice another one. i have experience from the first one. but the second one, i don't know is it truth or not. try it.

Yup, I ended up crying every time I have to slice an onion. My eyes gets teary because of the sulfuric acid that an onion has. What to do?well, you better not slice an onion at all if you don't want to end up getting teary eyes. If you'll try to slice fast, it's possible that if you're not a professional then you might cut your own hands and that's a more worse case. If you don't want to get teary-eyed because of it then AVOID it.:)Happy MyLotting!

My boyfriend and I actually argued about this and made bets and found out the answers as to how to make yourself stop crying when cutting onions. He said that if you cut them under cold water the smell wont get in the air and irritate your eyes. I said if you bite on the end of a match (the match head pointing outward, not lit, of course) that you wont cry because of the sulfur in the match. While both of these are said to work, the only PROVEN thing that works is to chew gum while cutting the onions. I still maintain that the match trick works, and my boyfriend still swears up and down about cutting them under cold water, but the only thing that was scientifically proven was chewing gum. I can't remember the exact reason, though.