Salaams. I was wondering what you sisters do when cutting onions to prevent your eyes from watering. My eyes water soooo much and burn and my nose too. Any suggestions?????
Anyways, yeah I suffered from that for a while until I discovered how to tackle it.
When breathing through the nose, there is a gas that eminates from the onions and wreaks havoc in your sinuses which affects some unnamable glands near your eye and causes tears to come out.
Instead of breathing through the nose and smelling the onion smell, breathe through the nose and do not inhale any of the onion smell.
This one time I remember that we were haveing a food tech lesson and there were about 20 people chopping onions and not one person was crying and thats because he tagught us a 'secret method of chopping onions'
Apparently what makes you cry is at the bottom of the oninon so you should always cut that part last.
If I'm wrong about it being the bottom on the onion someone correct me I havent chopped on in 3 years. And if I'm right I hope that helps!
Well i cut onions like almost every single day...well probly 4 days for the week. But why should we cut the bottom of the onion last if that is the part that makes you cry...Dont you think we should cut off the bottom first and get it over with??? So after you cut off the bottom you will hav a good time cutting the rest of the onionkay:
Try chewing gum, or put some bread under your lip while your peeling them. insha'Allaah, you shouldn't get watery eyes that way. i dno if it works, but give it a try insha'Allaah.
But how do you breathe through your nose and not inhale the smell???there is no guarentee that you will not inhale the onions....Wouldn't breathing through your mouth be better?????:?
Well i cut onions like almost every single day...well probly 4 days for the week. But why should we cut the bottom of the onion last if that is the part that makes you cry...Dont you think we should cut off the bottom first and get it over with??? So after you cut off the bottom you will hav a good time cutting the rest of the onionkay:
The thing is if you start from the top it doesnt end up making you cry when you get to the bottom if you know what I mean. It worked for me when I tried it but I've only ever cut oninions by hand once in my life:-[
Fi_Sabilliah you're advice cracked me up if I tried that infront of my mum she'd think I had mental Issues. But does it have to be gum your chewing or can it be any random food?
But how do you breathe through your nose and not inhale the smell???there is no guarentee that you will not inhale the onions....Wouldn't breathing through your mouth be better?????:?
Fi_Sabilliah you're advice cracked me up if I tried that infront of my mum she'd think I had mental Issues. But does it have to be gum your chewing or can it be any random food?
It can be any food i think, because i think that by chewing something else - it distracts the senses of smelling somehow, or atleast decreases it.
It might be because chewing on something makes a person breathe more through their mouth instead of their nose. Which means that the nose won't smell alot of onion, so the eyes won't water that much either.
[You might have noticed how when you bang your nose - your eyes water, that's probably because your nose senses are linked to the eyes.] So like bro iqram said, just breathe more through the mouth instead of the nose insha'Allaah.
Noo brother you did not say breathe through your nose. This is wat you said..lol.
"Instead of breathing through the nose and smelling the onion smell, breathe through the nose and do not inhale any of the onion smell"
:rollseyes hahaha
i was now doing some research here...i read that if u put a match grain in your mouth with the sulpher part outside the sulpher will absorb the scent of the onions so it won't make your eyes water....:-\