How do you cut up onions? Can't stop crying!

[krystals]

After you've got them from the fridge....
Cut the top and bottom off, peel them, then cut them in half vertically (with me so far??? LOL)
Then cut your vertical slices, and dice from there.

Hope this makes sense??? It's how I do it and I never cry anymore.
Leeks on the other hand make me BAWL

[Netix]

I've noticed that some onions are more teary than others. I don't know why. I just try and do it as quick as I can with a really sharp knife. I've heard the running them under water helps.

[Liz]

Do you have blue eyes? apparently us blue eyed people are more susceptible to crying from onions LOL.

Agree - first option would be to get DH to do it!!

I've tried the fridge... hasn't worked for me.. the theory with that I think is that there is less vapour from the onion if it's cold.

For that many onions I would get out my v-slicer thing. Or if you have a chopper blade thingy for a food processor (magic bullet comes to mind! hahahha) then use that. No way would I stand there manually chopping 5kg of onions. ugh.

Have fun!