Cut An Onion Without Tears Analysis

How to Cut an Onion Without Tears - the best way to cut an onionCourtesy of Pixabay/Stevepb
Are you sick and tired of the tears and burning in your eyes as you cut up an onion? It is the age old question - how to cut an onion without tears? I'm going to share the secret of how to cut up an onion without tears.

Along the way I figured out I had been cutting up onions the hard way for many years. I bet you are too! I'm also going to show you the fastest and simplest way to cut an onion.

Cut An Onion WITHOUT Tears

How to cut an onion without tears 1Courtesy of Pixabay/Couleur
This is so simple, you're gonna scratch you head in bewilderment. So.... the SECRET for no tears is to cut your onions while they are cold. I store my onions in the fridge. No room in your fridge? Put the onion in the fridge several hours …show more content…
It costs pennies on the dollar, is safe (you can and do eat it), and works great!

Step By Step Instructions on How to Properly Cut an Onion

First you are going to cut your onion from root to tip. Probably the opposite way that you cut it now. This took me a little while to get used to.

How to cut an onion without tears - step 1

Your onion should now have two pieces that look like this.
How to cut an onion without tears - step 2

Now cut off the end of the onion that would have been the top of the onion that came out of the soil. You want to keep the root end intact.

20160112_135132 Then peel off the outer layers of the onion that we don't eat. It will look like this

How to cut an onion without tears - step 4

Next you cut the onion into strips from the cut end to the root end, but not all the way through the root end. The picture explains it a lot better than I can.

How to cut an onion without tears - step 5 Slice your onion all the way around so it is only held together by the root end that you did not cut.

How to cut an onion without tears - step