Learn how to cut onions without crying with helpful tips from food professionals, verified by an expert on food science.
It doesn’t take a lot to move me to tears—a sad song, Episode Three of The Last of Us, and sometimes, just slicing through an onion. And while wistful situations are easy to avoid in daily life, I cut onions and their other allium cousins several times a week, whether I’m slicing for fajitas, chopping with carrots and celery as mirepoix for soups, or peeling, quartering, and blending into a marinade. I cry almost every time.
“A well-honed knife will divide the flesh, damaging and bruising the least number of cells possible,” Farrimond tells me. Next, we can try slowing down the chemical reaction. “Chilling onions by storing them in the fridge or giving them a 30-minute blast in the freezer slows down the enzymatic chemical reactions, dramatically delaying the onion’s defensive gas-producing processes,” Farrimond says.
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