I am especially sensitive to this. I’ve found that using a very, very sharp knife can help, but some onions are especially strong. At that point I’m breaking out the swimming goggles.
I thought I was the only one who cuts onion with goggles. If I only need one onion I don’t need them if I am quick enough, but if I need more than that, I always whip out swimming goggles.
Run your wrists, palm up, under cold water. It’s black magic. It will stop it almost instantly.
I am going to try this, but I’d really like to know why it works. Someone else suggested cold water on the knife. Do the irritant molecules from the onion react with the water on your hands/wrists/knife before getting up in your eyes?
Onion make gas. Gas stick to tear on eyeball. Tears turn acidic, eyeball hurt.
Bring tears to onion, gas already react so no can hurt real eyeball. That why bring water (fake eyeball) to onion when cut.
Gud esplaind
At some point I started running cold water on the knife before cutting and onion, and it seems to help. Does anyone know if there’s science behind this, or am I making shit up?
I just got a knife sharpener and it actually helps.
After sharpening, my eyes couldn’t even tell that I was cutting an onion.
Instructions unclear, now I have pointy eyes
Instructions unclear, I can’t see anymore
my eyes couldn’t even tell that I was cutting an onion.
Because you have sharpened and blinded yourself…
It’s hard, but don’t blink. If you blink it gets under your eyelids. If you don’t, the tears just continuously wash it down.
It was fun to discover that contact lenses are like a superpower when it comes to cutting onions. Finally, a benefit to being utterly blind!
Doesnt it literally make the gas used in ww1 in ur eyes.
is that why wetting it reduces the pain?
No, it’s about the shock of the cold on your nervous system.
