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Talking of onions…..

(15 Posts)
henetha Sat 09-Nov-24 23:23:42

I've chopped onions today, as it happens, and got the usual stinging runny eyes. Perhaps it's because I'm old fashioned.

1summer Sat 09-Nov-24 22:13:35

Funnily enough, today I made braised red cabbage and apples to freeze for Christmas. As I was chopping 2 onions, my eyes were streaming and I thought I haven’t noticed this for ages.
Odd to read this tonight.

Babs03 Sat 09-Nov-24 20:45:08

I don't usually have watering eyes when just chopping onions, I never dice too small, but if I need to grate onions my eyes feel as if acid has been sprayed in them.

CanadianGran Sat 09-Nov-24 20:19:05

I wear a reader contact in one eye which protects it from onions! The other eye still stings and cries.

cornergran Sat 09-Nov-24 19:11:08

Instant eye watering here Morrisons red onions. I’ve always been very sensitive to raw onions, it seems to have worsened over the years,not improved.

HowVeryDareYou2 Sat 09-Nov-24 17:34:28

I've never had watering eyes when chopping onions.

valdavi Sat 09-Nov-24 17:10:43

Yes streaming eyes & nose after chopping onions yesterday ( as usual ). Think it's you not the onions probably - lucky you. They are so good for you.

lixy Sat 09-Nov-24 16:50:28

Eye watering as ever here, also from Tesco’s, Red ones are just as tear-inducing.
It’s a nuisance as my default for starting most dishes is to chop an onion!

Greyduster Sat 09-Nov-24 16:45:46

I chopped onions for shepherds pie earlier in the week and they certainly made my eyes water. I read somewhere once that if you hold a slice of bread in your mouth your eyes won’t water. No, they may not, but you’d look extremely silly😁!

Jaxjacky Sat 09-Nov-24 16:12:09

I made green tomato chutney a few weeks ago and had to stop chopping the onions a few times to splash my eyes with water, I wear glasses, made no difference.
Onions were from Tesco.

megan777 Sat 09-Nov-24 15:58:25

M0nica

I find oinions as eye watering as ever.

Then you must have found some real onions, because, like the rest of us here, I don’t feel a thing when I’m cutting them. The only explanation is that they aren’t natural or don’t have what an onion should have to be considered one. Now I don’t know where to find good onions

M0nica Fri 01-Nov-24 12:08:25

I find oinions as eye watering as ever.

Allira Fri 01-Nov-24 11:41:00

I thought it was because I use a mini-chopper.
Or DH.

MaizieD Fri 01-Nov-24 11:31:54

I'd noticed it, both in shop bought and home grown onions, but I thought it was because I wear glasses.

Or perhaps we've just been desensitised over many years of onion chopping?

Daddima Fri 01-Nov-24 11:28:14

Has anybody else noticed that they don’t seem to get the streaming eyes these days when chopping onions? I can’t remember the last time I did.
Incidentally, I asked this on another forum, and got loads of ‘handy hints’ on how to stop it happening, and hardly any answers to my actual question!