It’s a lifelong cook’s battle that we all know and hate: the onion tears. It’s never a pleasant experience, but even worse if you have sensitive eyes, wear make-up, or just happen to have a particularly potent onion. So what’s a cook to do? If you’ve tried all the well-known solutions (chewing gum, freezing the onion) and they haven’t worked, here are a few other options you can give a shot.
Wear Goggles
So onions make you cry when the fumes from the onion reach your eyes. It may make you look silly, but one fool-proof way to avoid this is to put up a physical barrier that’ll protect your eyes. It’ll be worth the weird looks you get from others.
Light a Candle
If you’re not quite goggles-level hardcore, you can also try to ward away the onion stench by lighting a candle nearby when you cook so that the fire might wave off some of those onion fumes.
Leave the Root On
Rumor has it that the strongest part of the onion fumes come from the root, so cutting the rest of the onion first may help you avoid the brunt of the onion stench until the last possible second.
