TIP ONION ONSLAUGHT (Stop crying)

TIP - Chewing gum will prevent tears while cutting onions.  If you haven' got any gum try breathing through your mouth with your tongue on the roof of your mouth. This will also keep those tears at bay.  It's true, I've tried it and been successful every time.

Why does this work? Chewing gum forces you to breathe through your mouth, dispersing the irritant so that far less reaches the lachrymal glands and preventing them from becoming irritated and releasing tears. When you cut an onion a gas called Propanethiol S-oxide is released which wafts towards your eyes. When the gas reaches your eyes it reacts with the water and forms sulphuric acid. Needless to say ,sulphuric acid is an irritant and normally, your body would signal you to close your eyes.  This is a bad idea when your chopping onions.  So the body produces tears to try and wash away the irritant.


So get chopping.  Now you can have liver and onions and only have to cry about eating liver.

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