Onion Goggles.

High Cheese said:
You oughta try ALL of those tricks at once. :thumb: Put the bread on one side of your mouth, a match in the other, put the goggles on, do the Hokey Pokey, take the onions out of the fridge and sharpen your knife. .......try that.



....take pics. ;)
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I didn't know about the bread trick, the match trick, the goggles trick, or the cold onion trick. But I've been doing the Hokey Pokey in the kitchen for years!
 
chowhound said:
Trying all the tricks at once doesn't always work.
Otherwise I could have shaved 30 strokes off my golf game ten years ago :mrgreen:
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You must not have tried the Golfers Better Swing bracelet. It's made from prescious moon metals.....all the top golfers use them.

lmfao:mrgreen:
 
Who comes up with all those weird theories on how to chop or slice onions without the juices splashing up in your eyes?

THAT'S what sounds like a whole lot of Hokey-Pokey.
 
Paula Deen wears some that look pretty similar.
I imagine any goggles would work.

I too am a lucky guy who doesnt get Onion Eye.

This thread has veered off course in fun and interesting ways, LOL!
 
Believe it or not, I'm going to try this gadget out. I can always send it back if I'm not satisfied wuth them.

Ordered them from Chefscatalog for $20. But it costs nothing to ship them to me.
 
I'm going to admit that even the onions I was chopping on Monday and Tuesday were making my eyes water.

My onions are cold. My knife is sharp.

I'm thinking that maybe the onions available in stores right now have a high sulfur content.
 
Seems that no matter what you do, your eyes are still sprayed with the acidic juices from onions. It's just a stubborn problem that won't go away!
 
Normally it isn't a problem with me. I think the onions that are in stores right now just have a freaking high sulfur content. Even the same varieties of onions will differ in sulfur content, depending on the soil composition where they are grown.
 
I've been trying to stay out of this a long time.... but.... if I wear my contacts... no problem (and I look so pretty!!!!)

Glasses..... ouch but I get over it.... and extra hugs from the kids!!
 
I don't know if the contacts has any bearing or not, because I wear one contact in one eye and both of my eyes seem to behave the same as far as irritants, allergies, whatever...
 
AllenOK said:
Normally it isn't a problem with me. I think the onions that are in stores right now just have a freaking high sulfur content. Even the same varieties of onions will differ in sulfur content, depending on the soil composition where they are grown.
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I think it's worse when the onions are old; the longer they sit there the higher the sulfur content.
 
AllenOK said:
What degree is the bevel? Do you use a "slicing" motion, or just straight down through the onion?

I wish I had a way to capture video. I use a slicing motion to cut my onions. It's like they just fall apart into diced pieces.

Vera, you'd really find the humor in this:

When I was a teenager, working at my first job in a burger join / ice cream shop, I was given a task of slicing a 50 lbs. bag of onions, prep for the weekend. We had a hand-powered, rotary slicer. The onions were at room temp. I got them peeled, then proceeded to slice them. I sliced them nonstop. In the end, I was tearing up so badly that I literally could not see; I had a film of tears completely covering my eyes.

I needed to wipe the tears out of my eyes. Before I could do that, I needed to wash the onion juices off my hands. I had to feel my way from the back room to the front line, where the hand-washing sink is. Once I had accomplished that task, cleared my eyes, and could actually SEE, what did I see, but a lady patiently waiting for ME to ring her up for a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. She just looks at me, and asks, "What happened? Your girlfriend break up with you or something?"

I had to tell her, with a straight face, that I had just sliced 50 lbs of onions. She laughed.
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I too had to slice onions(5 gallons worth at a time) prepping for the restaurant I worked at in high school. I also would have to dice 5 gallons worth. Now dicing or slicing a few onions doesn't bother me in the least.
 
I get to try the goggles out today, as I'm going to slice up some onions for pepper steak subs tonight.
 
Onions get all the credit...onion gadget this, onion gadget that....what about the poor shallot?! how 'bout some shallot goggles? Those things can get violent sometimes!
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