Stop Crying Over Onions

I use onions in almost every dish I make, and I even make onion-centric dishes like French Onion Soup, or caramelized onions for pizzas.  I love onions but sometimes they are so strong I can hardly stand it!

I have tried out many suggestions for avoiding the tears:

Put a toothpick in your mouth while you cut up onions.

Use onion goggles.

Cut your onions under running water.  Wait, what?

 

I can't explain why some onions seem to be okay--hardly produce a tear--while others seem to be tear producers the minute the knife touches them.

Finely chopped onions don't always make me cry.

I picked up a big bag of onions, and discovered once i started cutting that these were the most tearful onions I had encountered in a long while.  So now what?

Innocent looking onions.

I had a LOT of onions, not just one or two to get through, and I didn't want to spend all that extra time wiping my eyes, blowing my nose and washing my hands, only to repeat it many, many times!

The hero of the day!

And then I remembered the food processor.  I still had to cut the onions in half because my food processor feed is small, but I could slice up the whole bag of onions in minutes!  Although I wasn't tear free, I did manage to limit the exposure.

I thought that I might as well cut up every onion in the house as long as I was at it!

I would be prepared to cook onions without dealing with tears!


I put onions into freezer containers, labeled them and got them out of the kitchen!  May they be comfortable in the freezer and ready when I need them.

Yes, I am ready for anything with onions!



Now I just pull them out of the freezer and add them directly to the pan:

Put frozen onions right into the pan.

Look Ma, no tears!  And I have enough onions for at least a week! hehe.