Talking of onions…..

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I've never had watering eyes when chopping onions.

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.

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!

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😁!

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.

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

I find oinions as eye watering as ever.

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

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?