No More Tears: A Penny Life Hack for Chopping Onions

25.07.2024 21:03

Onions are a vegetable that many housewives do not want to deal with often.

However, it is included in many dishes, and therefore you have to peel and cut it with tears in your eyes.

However, there is no need to cry if you use one cheap life hack.

Onions contain sulfoxides, which irritate the eyes, causing tears to well up in the eyes. And a method used by experienced chefs will help combat this phenomenon.

Experts take a small piece of bread in their mouth and begin to peel or cut the vegetable. In this case, onion vapors enter the mouth.

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This may lead to more salivation, but there will definitely be no tears.

In addition, other methods help. To ensure that less caustic substance is released, the knife must be perfectly sharp.

And if you keep the onion in the refrigerator for half an hour, this will also help, since the cold slows down chemical reactions.

And if it becomes completely unbearable, try cutting vegetables with the hood on.

Author: Irina Tint Editor of Internet resources