In Tears...and its CQs fault

headchef

Oh you lot do make me LOL a lot!! Bet most people read these posts just for the therapy.
By the way, I bought my processor for the sole reason of saving the tears when chopping onions. I've owned it for over 10 years now and use it almost every day (pureeing roasted veg into soups, making pastry, chopping up celery and carrot with said onions for base saces etc). if you have it empty and the blade whirring you can drop garlic gloves and bits of ginger into it to chop too - perfect for CQ sauces!
Trouble if I can still cry just having to top and tail the onions to put them in the processor to start with...

Pink.

arkonite_babe wrote:

Best tip for peeling onions: Peel them beside the sink with the cold tap running ona trickle. I have no idea why this works, but it does. Let me know if it works for you.

I use the same method as ark, and it always works. It must be an NI thing.

Pink

Queenie

headchef wrote:

...... Trouble if I can still cry just having to top and tail the onions to put them in the processor to start with...

I shall share my Top Tip with *you* headchef ... but ... :shhh: *don't let the others know* :shhh: .....





























*When dh has been a bit naughty .... his "punishment" is to top and tails the onions .... see! ... no tears for me * :silenced:

greenwich

To paraphrase Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest: "I am glad to say that I have never peeled an onion". So this may be idiotic advice but I know that my wife buys packets of pre-chopped pre-fried onions, which I guess you can just toss into the pot. You get them from ethnic grocery shops.

P.S. England just scored (Lampard penalty).

ashmit

Contact lenses make me able to chop onions fine. When I try with my glasses on, I cannot do it. IT HURTS. My eyes stream and I cannot see. I think that contacts protect your eyes, and if you mostly chop onions with your lenses in, your eyes lose their capacity to deal with the onion fumes, so if I try it without my lenses in, it's far far worse than it used to be.

My husband laughs at me when this happens

wobblebottom

hold a whole round of bread (folded in half) between your lips whist peeling onions..this helps to absorb vapours and and stray juice from getting near your eyes..

It works for me...

ashmit

Really?? Wow! Can you then use the bread for anything (any ideas people?!) or do you just chuck it? I would be tempted to try breadcrumbing it for something that has breadcrumbs and onions - the two that spring to mind are spicy beanburgers or nut roast.

kiwichick

elona wrote:

Curry Queen

I was watching a tv cooking show ( might have been Ready,Steady Cook) and the chef warned the men who had been cutting chillies not to go to the loo without being sure they had washed their hands.

I will let you all guess why!

Yeouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wobblebottom

ashmit wrote:

Really?? Wow! Can you then use the bread for anything (any ideas people?!) or do you just chuck it? I would be tempted to try breadcrumbing it for something that has breadcrumbs and onions - the two that spring to mind are spicy beanburgers or nut roast.

why not long as u dont munch too much of it whilst u are choppin the onions.. after u have finished why not rub a clove of garlic over it before u breadcrumb it.. make it tastier still

Peter_Griffin

I always cut my onions on a board on top of the cooker with the extractor fan running on full blast always seems to help, as well as washing the onion after taking the skin off.


Also onion smell on your hands seems to last for days, you can get metal soap bars that are supposed to help, or rub some bicarbonate of soda into your hands with only a very little amount of water.