My latest method for chopping an onion tears-free........

[scott-in-scottsdale]

I bought myself a pair of speed-swimming goggles,

and wore them while I chopped my onion.

Works like a charm. No More Tears!

 

[florisandy]

I love it Scott! I hate crying while chopping onions too! I wonder what Mark Spitz and Michael

Phelps have to say about your ingenious idea??

 

[scott-in-scottsdale]

Probably nothing. I'll bet those two pampered pretty-boys never chopped an onion in their lives.

 

[maycee]

When you eat 12,000 calories a day like Michael Phelps, that's a lot of chopping.>>

Here's what a day's food intake looks like:

...three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.
He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.


Apparently he "washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks".

OMG!!!

 

[amanda_pennsylvania]

Are you serious? I don't see too many vegetables or fruits in that list...

 

[richard-in-cincy]

LOL. Where does it all fit??? He must

be half way finished digesting the first part of the meal as the last half is going in. Those lean high metabolism people are so lucky. I had a roommate in college that was total beanpole and he ate like that.

 

[richard-in-cincy]

As Julia always said: Sharpen your knives!

Dull knives are what send the juices flying into your eyes as you are partially squashing the onion as you are cutting with a dull knife.

On one of her early shows she chopped up several onions into fine dice live and didn't shed a tear, then she relayed the sharp knives advice.

 

[marilynfl]

Saw that on "Castle". Great idea.

Love the "father/daughter" interaction on that show. Witty reparte which means it will probably get cancelled.

 

[marilynfl]

Oh...I have the diet down pat...you mean I was supposed to be swimming too??

 

[amanda_pennsylvania]

ROTFL!!!

 

[steve2-in-la]

I believe if it hasn't already been cancelled, it's "on the bubble". Terrible numbers.

 

[vavroom]

You beat me to it

The secret is not in any gadgets, gizmos and such. It's not about running hands under cold water.

The secret is knives sharp enough you can shave (also makes them safer that way).

If you cut the onion, you won't be teary.
If you tear the onion, bring your tissues smileys/smile.gif

 

[luisa_calif]

Dang! I like that show too!

 

[aajay]

Should have known. They always cancel my favorites.

 

[steve2-in-la]

Mine too yet "The Bachelor" gets renewed year after year . . .

 

[heather_in_sf]

I remember during the Olympics they talked about much he had to eat because swimming ALL DAY really

burns it off!!

 

[joanietoo]

I still do the well tested one...skin the onions...store in a ziplock of draw at bottom of thefridge

Cut, chop or slice directly from the fridge...never ever cry.

 

[amanda_pennsylvania]

I should try this. My eyes water so much when I chop onions.

 

[steve2-in-la]

Recently I tried soaking my onions in ice water for about an hour. Really made a difference.