Originally Posted by
Sewnoma
When I slice onions, I periodically rinse my knife and the uncut part of the onion bulb under cool water. Again, DH thinks I'm crazy but I swear it cuts down on how much my eyes water.
Tomatoes - if I'm going to be dicing a lot of tomatoes I dunk them in an ice water bath for awhile first, so they're firmer and easier to cut. I learned that from working fast food, of all things.
Good idea about the tomatoes, especially if they're very ripe, which is when I really love them! About the onions, I read somewhere that if you make your very 1st cut from the root end, then you won't cry as much. I tried it, and it works for me.......
I make this 1st cut to start peeling the onion on the root end and just keep cutting from that end.