What the hell is happening here

Reiver

Onions.

Like what the actual **** is up with them? Am after slicing up three to add to my dinner after frying and I'm crying like someone who's been rioting in the Bogside.

I love to eat the things but this do be my first time deciding to prepare them myself and add them to a dish (pasta bolognese for those curious). Kitchen is making me weep everytime I do be going in.

It's like an aversion, wonder if Cain felt this bad slicing up Abel.

Señor Fancy Pants

Slicing the inner bulb is what makes you cry. Slice 3/4 into it and peel the layers off.

strobe

The synthase enzyme converts the sulfoxides (amino acids) of the onion into sulfenic acid. The unstable sulfenic acid rearranges itself into syn-ropanethial-S-oxide. Syn-propanethial-S-oxide gets into the air and comes in contact with our eyes. The lachrymal glands become irritated and produces the tears!

So gypsy magic, basically.

Un Croissant

You just killed mama onion, papa onion and baby onion, op. The tears are to be expected.

Reiver

strobe wrote: »

The synthase enzyme converts the sulfoxides (amino acids) of the onion into sulfenic acid. The unstable sulfenic acid rearranges itself into syn-ropanethial-S-oxide. Syn-propanethial-S-oxide gets into the air and comes in contact with our eyes. The lachrymal glands become irritated and produces the tears!

So gypsy magic, basically.

I put my swim goggles on and I still cried. Your technobabble is busted.

The_Valeyard

Reiver wrote: »

I put my swim goggles on and I still cried. Your technobabble is busted.

Bahahhahaha. That made me laugh.

ElleEm

Reiver wrote: »

I love to eat the things but this is my first time deciding to prepare them myself

God love you!

Armchair Andy

Just shove anotheronion up your arse OP it'll divert the acidity elsewhere hence stem the tears.

Banjo String

Op is old enough to be allowed to handle a knife, but doesn't know chopping onions is irritable to the human eye?

I don't know whether to cry or chip an onion.

Reiver

Banjo String wrote: »

Op is old enough to be allowed to handle a knife, but doesn't know chopping onions is irritable to the human eye?

I don't know whether to cry or chip an onion.

I amn't being funny. Haven't to do it before. I can peel spuds and slice carrots.

silverfeather

Onions like life have many layers.

silverfeather

I like them in salads!

Duke O Smiley

Be a man and eat them raw

Banjo String

Reiver wrote: »

I amn't being funny. Haven't to do it before. I can peel spuds and slice carrots.

Whether or not you've personally chopped them yourself or not, surely you heard (if only as a rumour) that chopping onions causes people to 'cry'?

silverfeather

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Be a man and eat them raw

I do! :pac: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/ingredient-focus-onions

They are not for people with sensitive tummies though. My mom finds them a bit difficult and garlic. Which I also love.

silverfeather

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Be a man and eat them raw

By the way I love your name!

Reiver

Banjo String wrote: »

Whether or not you've personally chopped them yourself or not, surely you heard (if only as a rumour) that chopping onions causes people to 'cry'?

Lad I amn't being Steven Fry. Nobody remembers everything. I had someone today not believe me that their does be an Irish language, ignorances doesn't have bounds.

retro:electro

I've heard you don't cry if you sing as you're cutting them, preferably Whitney.
What a lovely image

randylonghorn

Breathe through your mouth, not through your nose when chopping onions. It won't solve it completely, but it will help.

Similarly, if you can chop near an open window with a breeze blowing in, that will help too.

Otherwise, grin and bear it.

Reiver

Truffle Pig wrote: »

Slicing the inner bulb is what makes you cry. Slice 3/4 into it and peel the layers off.

Is this kosher? like does it actually work? Why only the inner part

Cienciano

Onions are amazing, totally worth it.

Birneybau

Reiver wrote: »

Lad I amn't being Steven Fry. Nobody remembers everything. I had someone today not believe me that their does be an Irish language, ignorances doesn't have bounds.

Not being Stephen Fry you say? You are as eloquent anyway.

LDN_Irish

Chew on the bottom end of a matchstick while cutting them. Wear a stetson for the full cowboy effect.

It might not work but you do be looking the part laaaaaad.

Reiver

LDN_Irish wrote: »

Chew on the bottom end of a matchstick while cutting them. Wear a stetson for the full cowboy effect.

It might not work but you do be looking the part laaaaaad.

I live alone. it won't impress a soul.

Tombi!

Pfft crybaby. :pac:
But chopping an onion releases a chemical that affects the tear ducts (I think)

Banjo String

Reiver wrote: »

Lad I amn't being Steven Fry. Nobody remembers everything. I had someone today not believe me that their does be an Irish language, ignorances doesn't have bounds.

I'm not mocking or belittling, I'm just a little bemused tbh.

I thought everyone knew this

MadDog76

Reiver wrote: »

Onions.

Like what the actual **** is up with them? Am after slicing up three to add to my dinner after frying and I'm crying like someone who's been rioting in the Bogside.

I love to eat the things but this do be my first time deciding to prepare them myself and add them to a dish (pasta bolognese for those curious). Kitchen is making me weep everytime I do be going in.

It's like an aversion, wonder if Cain felt this bad slicing up Abel.

Reiver wrote: »

I put my swim goggles on and I still cried. Your technobabble is busted.

That's some funny sh1t!!!!!!

Summer wind

I think if you press the tip of your tongue behind your front teeth on the top while your chopping it helps.

sunshine and showers

OP, the trick is not to get emotionally attached to the little buggers.

deseil

If you press a piece of the chopped onion against your affected eyeballs it really helps, try it and let me know how you get On!

agent graves

Chop them faster.. I can chop it up quick and the eyes sting only once in a while...

fleet_admiral

Onions are disgusting

IamNotNumber

Onions are like assholes everyone has one ...or is that opinions?
What the hell is happening here ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjSpO2B6G4s

Reiver

I'm cooking some again tomorrow so I'll try out some of yer methods and let ye know if they work. I might wear the swimming googles again to help protect me eyes.

Not being stupid here now but is eating onions daily good for ya?

silverfeather

BEETROOT!

Tony Beetroot

silverfeather wrote: »

BEETROOT!

makes a nice combo, perfect summer salad ingredients.

silverfeather

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

makes a nice combo, perfect summer salad ingredients.

Awh you posted :-)

Thank you!

Great Salad!

Nite sleep well!

wilford

Buy a bag already chopped,no more tears.

Capt'n Midnight

fill a basin with water
and cut the onions underwater

having them in the basin will make it easier to flush the whole sodden mess down the toilet later

Dangerous Man

This might help.

FanadMan

If you have a decent extractor fan in the kitchen, turn it on full power and chop the onions underneath - supposedly it will remove the fumes from the onions.


I'm lucky - I could chop a bag of onions without my eyes being affected. My nose gets a bit itchy though.

Totofan99

strobe wrote: »

The synthase enzyme converts the sulfoxides (amino acids) of the onion into sulfenic acid. The unstable sulfenic acid rearranges itself into syn-ropanethial-S-oxide. Syn-propanethial-S-oxide gets into the air and comes in contact with our eyes. The lachrymal glands become irritated and produces the tears!

So gypsy magic, basically.

Actually, the glands don't become irritated. The propanethiol S-oxide reacts with water in your eyes to produce sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is highly corrosive and burns, so your eyes produce more tears to wash it away. Sulfuric acid is the same acid that's used in car batteries. Pretty amazing that a vegetable can do that much damage, isn't it?

fizzypish

To prevent tears while chopping onions place a spoon that has been in the fridge for 24 hours in you rectum. You will not notice the onions after this. Or is it your mouth........

Boom_Bap

Put a wooden spoon between your teeth while chopping them up.
Not sure if it will help, but it give someone who walks in on you a great story to tell.


Also....3.....THREE onions for a bolognese. Way too many.

Harry Palmr

Reiver wrote: »

Onions.

Like what the actual **** is up with them? Am after slicing up three to add to my dinner after frying and I'm crying like someone who's been rioting in the Bogside.

I love to eat the things but this do be my first time deciding to prepare them myself and add them to a dish (pasta bolognese for those curious). Kitchen is making me weep everytime I do be going in.

It's like an aversion, wonder if Cain felt this bad slicing up Abel.

Anyone else noticed how After Hours in turning into a collection of failed facebook entries?

Sinister Kid

Run cold water over your wrists, it will help.

Wossack

Reiver wrote: »

I'm cooking some again tomorrow so I'll try out some of yer methods and let ye know if they work. I might wear the swimming googles again to help protect me eyes.

Not being stupid here now but is eating onions daily good for ya?

swimming goggles definitely works - put them on before you start cutting though (sounds like it was an afterthought, so you probably ended up trapping the onion death haze in the goggles)

frozenfrozen

use a sharp knife to cut them

Cienciano

Wait for a windy day and cut them in the back garden with the wind at your back.

redbel05

Before chopping, wash the onions in Johnsons baby wash no more tears. Voila. No more tears.

Unfortunately also no more edible onions.

Capt'n Midnight

redbel05 wrote: »

Before chopping, wash the onions in Johnsons baby wash no more tears. Voila. No more tears.

Unfortunately also no more edible onions.

I truly despise marketing people for stuff like this.

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verb: tear; 3rd person present: tears; past tense: tore; gerund or present participle: tearing; past participle: torn

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pull (something) apart or to pieces with force.
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synonyms: rip up, rip in two, pull apart, pull to pieces, shred
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