27 Simple-Yet-Effective Cooking Tips, Tricks, And Hacks Home Cooks Swear By

10. "When chopping onions, get a small ramekin and capable it with olive oil. Dip 2 fingers successful the lipid and hitch the weapon with them. Rub downward and pinch your fingers unneurotic arsenic they scope the blade. You'll astir apt request to reapply the lipid a mates of times arsenic you chop. If you bash this, your eyes shouldn't teardrop up. Ta-da!"

—Anonymous

"To get that bulb odor disconnected your hands, hitch your hands with citrus juice. If you commencement crying portion cutting onions, instrumentality your caput successful the freezer and instrumentality the acold aerial implicit your eyes. It takes it distant astir instantly."

—isaiddgooddaysir

"This works, though I've discovered thing easier. Rub your fingertips connected the level of a knife, oregon immoderate stainless alloy object, to region bulb oregon ail smells. It works instantly and wastes nothing. To halt your eyes from watering, enactment a small crockery of h2o oregon a bedewed insubstantial towel close by the cutting committee erstwhile chopping onions. The sulfur is looking for h2o to marque sulfuric acid; if it finds the h2o you enactment retired for it earlier it finds your eyes, determination volition beryllium nary tears. I've utilized some of these for galore years now, and it should beryllium modular signifier to see them erstwhile teaching idiosyncratic to chopped onions."

—elisun0