Tearless onions
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- Meganthemog
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Tearless onions
What do you think about these? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... irst-time/
As someone who has incredibly sensitive eyes, I welcome their arrival on our supermarket shelves. If I try to chop onions, I end up with tears streaming down my face and stinging eyes for ages after. I have tried every 'trick' to stop it but nothing helps. I will have to take a trip to Waitrose.
As someone who has incredibly sensitive eyes, I welcome their arrival on our supermarket shelves. If I try to chop onions, I end up with tears streaming down my face and stinging eyes for ages after. I have tried every 'trick' to stop it but nothing helps. I will have to take a trip to Waitrose.
- Earthmaiden
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Re: Tearless onions
A very attractive prospect indeed!
Re: Tearless onions
We use a lot of onions... at least 2lbs a week for the two of us, often more, and I must say that the only time they bother me at all is if I'm using newly harvested ones that haven't been stored and dried out a bit. I don't think I'll be tempted.
- herbidacious
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Re: Tearless onions
I can't read the article...
Do swimming goggles not work?
I have no problem whatsoever with onions as long as I have my contact lenses in.
Do swimming goggles not work?
I have no problem whatsoever with onions as long as I have my contact lenses in.
- Earthmaiden
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Re: Tearless onions
I don't own swimming goggles. I take onions into the garden if I'm doing a lot, the fresh air solves the problem. Discovering the slicer on my food processor dealt with cutting large amounts.
It's peeling them that I really hate.
It's peeling them that I really hate.
- PatsyMFagan
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Re: Tearless onions
I bought myself and another member of WF (Teri - who sadly lost her battle with cancer) special goggles for chopping onions... they had a sponge filter round the frame and worked very well. However, they were no good if you wore glasses all the time. I did enquire at my local optician if they could replace the lens with one that I could see through but sadly not.
I have noticed though that if I ever need to store half an onion in the fridge, that I can chop that when I need it without the burning/watering eyes issue. I haven't tested this for whole onions as I don't really have that much room in my fridge.
When daughter was living with me, I could call on her to chop my onions as she got no reaction at all ..
I have noticed though that if I ever need to store half an onion in the fridge, that I can chop that when I need it without the burning/watering eyes issue. I haven't tested this for whole onions as I don't really have that much room in my fridge.
When daughter was living with me, I could call on her to chop my onions as she got no reaction at all ..
- Stokey Sue
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Re: Tearless onions
Suffs wrote:We use a lot of onions... at least 2lbs a week for the two of us, often more, and I must say that the only time they bother me at all is if I'm using newly harvested ones that haven't been stored and dried out a bit. I don't think I'll be tempted.
I don't use that many onions but agree with the overall picture
Also, I'm pretty sure that many of the veg seed catalogues my father and i had in the 20th century contained a tearless onion, none of them returned for many seasons
Re: Tearless onions
Like Herbi, when I wore contact lenses I could chop away with no tears, but now I wear glasses it's not like that any more.
Last edited by KeenCook2 on Wed Jan 12, 2022 3:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Mary Berry swears by storing in a fridge to stop the tears. Like Suffs I only suffer if they are freshly lifted out of the garden, any that have been stored either at home or commercially don’t bother me.
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- Lusciouslush
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Re: Tearless onions
I've got some excellent welding goggles which would probably do the job...................
Just a thought...........
Just a thought...........
- Stokey Sue
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Those would do the job, I've got a pair somewhere
Or like this
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when our son was about six he wanted to help with dinner so i asked him if he wanted to chop onions (yup, mean mother) he said he did and went straight to get his swimming googles before starting. i was impressed.
you can get prescription swimming goggles ... i bought half a dozen pairs of swans from eBay once (incredibly cheap) when we were all training, which included a pair - i think i may still have them.
like these but i can't remember the prescription of mine. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133989925471?hash=item1f326c025f:g:D~cAAOSwwC9h3CU1
i rarely suffer from onions and we go through a lot, too, so i doubt i'll be buying any.
you can get prescription swimming goggles ... i bought half a dozen pairs of swans from eBay once (incredibly cheap) when we were all training, which included a pair - i think i may still have them.
like these but i can't remember the prescription of mine. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133989925471?hash=item1f326c025f:g:D~cAAOSwwC9h3CU1
i rarely suffer from onions and we go through a lot, too, so i doubt i'll be buying any.
- herbidacious
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Re: Tearless onions
I get my husband to chop onions if I have my glasses on (He wears contact lenses too. Hard ones, and thus smaller, but they still seem to do the job, unless he is just immune, somehow.) He actually does quite a good job of it!
- WWordsworth
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Re: Tearless onions
I really struggle with onions.
I have tried everything and the tears always stream down my face.
I generally ask J to deal with them, he has no problem.
Might have to investigate these new fangled things.
I have tried everything and the tears always stream down my face.
I generally ask J to deal with them, he has no problem.
Might have to investigate these new fangled things.
Re: Tearless onions
Isn't it odd? I chop onions by the dozen especially in chutney season and very rarely have any sort of reaction.
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