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The trick to cutting onions without tears

Cutting onions without tears

Do you know how to cut onions without tears? No one is immune to shedding a tear while peeling and cutting an onion, even if it's a carrot! But you can very easily prevent crying while cutting. Learn a simple trick to prevent tearing caused by sulfur fumes.

How to cut onions without tears? There are quite a few ways, but you probably don't know this simple trick yet, although you probably wish you had a long time ago, because it would save you a lot of tears. For tears when cutting and peeling the onions are otherwise to blame sulfur fumes, which are released, but in contact with the eyes they create an acid that irritates the eyes (tears flow to eliminate the acid). Their concentration depends on the type of onion and the stronger the concentrate, the more we will cry. But how to avoid any tearing at all, you should "dissect" the old onion, which has a higher one gas content, or young, who is more innocent?

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Forget the swimming goggles.
Forget the swimming goggles.

For peeling and cutting onions without tearing you don't need swimming goggles, hot water, special breathing techniques, in between you don't need to whistle, chew, soak the kitchen board in lemon, turn on the fan, put onions in the freezer, salt them, dip a knife in cold water, etc. All you have to do is cut out the root part of the onion, this sulphurous "bomb" that "explodes" when you cut into it with a knife. Once you realize that the method works, you will never cut onions the same way again.

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