do your tears fall everytime you slice an onion?

you can avoid this many of ways, first you can cut the onion real fast, to do that it takes skill and kowledge, but on the downside youll cry after youve done it! or you can use real fresh onions, the fresher the better and the less time the acidity in the onion has time to build up and form a sort of mace when cut into, and you can top and tail the oinion\s and then soak them in water, this doesnt really help alot, but it does a little, and it depends on how much you hate crying over onions!

Cut onion, because onion chopping people's eyes by the strong stimulation of volatile substances are often tears constantly. Cut onions, how it will not dazzling? 1. In the cutting onions before it is immersed in cold water while cutting knife, then cut will not be due to volatile substance when stimulated tears. 2. The onion cut in half after the first cold water and then soak about cutting, it would not in tears. 3. Put a little bite Microwave, leather good to go, cut up and do not cry. 4. Will be immersed in hot water 3 onions minutes later, and then cut. 5. Wearing goggles cut onions 6. Breath cut. Because of the taste of onions reached the brain through the nose only to the eye tears. 7. Onion smell is stimulated through the nose to the eyes. So, as long as the nose is stuffed with tissue paper cut, it all right. 8. Cutting onions can be beside the point in the chopping block candles can reduce the stimulation of onion smell. Results are good! (Oh, a lot of fun. Enough alternative!!!) 9. If you have "tears", they can open the fridge freezer, stuck it into his head to look at the next (as long as the face felt a little cool), the eye will not to flow! Give it a try!! as long as you cut onions in cold water before the knife on the Li Jin for a while, and then cut will not stab eyes. You may wish to take a try. or a little onion with a thin plastic bags is good, then put into a refrigerator freezer room, cold onion until transparent but not freezing, remove the onion, after this approach to cut up the onions a less dazzling.

try burning a candle next to you while you do it OR you could slice it under running water or in a bowl of water...the candle thing works for me...

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Sometimes yess lol i dont want to be crybaby so i run to wash my eyes with cold water, but even then they come.
i remember on school time (some food tehnological school) i was new in class and they put me to slice onion for the first thing, but it didnt make my tears fall...now when i cook i allways cry for onions

Onions can make you teary eyed after slicing it and every time i am doing it, tears falls down. Others say that salt can fight a substance in the onion to avoid tears to fall down but i did not try to put salt in the chopping board to test if it is true or not. Until now i do not know what is in the onion's skin that make us to tears.

I never move to tears while slicing onions. Maybe I don't let my eyes be too near the onion, or I have too little tears to move. You can put a glass of water nearby when you slice onion, it might help. It's the tip that someone told me but I never try because I don't need it.

I have that problem sometimes too. I think it a lot to do with the kind of onions that they are. I just buy onions and never pay any attention to what kind they are. I usually try to run cold water while Im cutting the onion up. It seems to work for me. Have a great day and keep away from crying onions..LOL

Well, I think that whenever I slice onions, I am in a mood because it seems that all my heartaches and pains comes to me that causes me to cry with tears. I don't know why I do cry when I slice onions. But those cries are not the usual ones. it may be a special cry, the cry that will make a good recipe when mixed with those onion slices we have. That is a good soup I guess.