UnTreeHugger: Onion Goggles
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA on 09. 4.07
This pair of goggles, which promises no more tears when you chop onions, made us want to cry. The $18 glorified swim goggles have a seal foam seal to keep tear-inducing onion vapors from irritating your corneas.
Some easy alternatives that won't cost you a cent: Chill onions before peeling, or peel them under running water and then toss them into a food processor. You can also burn a candle next to the cutting board so the onion vapors are drawn to the heat source. Using a good, sharp knife also helps because it allows less of the tear-causing compounds to be released.
Plus, you won't end up looking like a space cadet. ::Art of Cooking
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Or you could buy sweet onions and not have to worry about tearing up. I can't remember the last time I had a problem with chopping onions.
Of course, I've got a $120 Shun chef's knife and know how to chop an onion properly.
This is great. The only thing that'll make you cry now is the fact that you spent $18 to look like Ali G while chopping onions.
or you could just not be a baby and accept that cutting an onion could irritate your eyes .
Put your onions in the fridge problem solved.
How nice to see treehugger post a product they want you NOT to buy. Usually this is a forum showcasing new stuff to purchase as an alternative to something else to purhase when the best choice is, of course: don't purchase!
"glorified swim goggles " ...hmmmm maybe I'll just go get my regular swim googles.
Cheerio!
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Go visit foodies in any ski town and find them wearing ski/snowboard goggles as they chop vidalias, dice texas sweets, and slice bermuda red onions with nary a tear!
More crap i do not need.Stop posting useless junk.
Funny too, cause the vapors cause you to tear when they come into contact and irritate your sinuses - not you eyes.
The technique I have always used, is to suck on a teaspoon whilst chopping the onions, you may laugh now, but go try it.
If I wanted to look like a dork while chopping onions, I would dance to music, which is also more fun -_-
The things, people try to sell us,...........
Gah! I read TreeHugger because I like the occasional useful tips on how to reduce the damage I do to the world around me. But the constant stream of "buy modern designed stuff cuz we like how it looks" is a constant source of angst. WTF, people? My furniture came from the thrift store. It is not particularly modern, but I like the fact that some one did not throw it out, or even recycle it before I got it.
Now you are encouraging people to run water while peeling onions (isn't water a valuable commodity, not to be wasted), and to use a food processor. Do you even remember the 3 "R"s? The first one is "reduce", which as I understand it here means to use a friggin' knife to chop stuff up, not a couple hundered dollars of electricity sucking applience that was probably made in some toxic pit in China.
Hm, maybe that's enough rant. Sorry about the tone here, I get worked up when I encounter advocates who are blind to their own biases. Peace.
Please check out the website The Dry Eye Zone. There are thousands of people out there in the world, who have very severe dry eyes for many different reasons: surgery, autoimmune diseases, insufficient nutrient levels, hormonal problems, aging, etc.
These onion goggles have provided us with an inexpensive way to preserve our corneas from damage and keep our vision.
I have severe dry eyes from a digestive disease and malabsorption problems. Without the onion goggles I would not be able to go out of my house and out in public. Artificial tears and ointments aren't enough.
There is not much else out there for us other than wearing swim goggles, which is extremely uncomfortable for long periods of time on a daily basis. The onion goggles preserve what little tears I do make and protect my corneas. They enable me to have a semi-normal life.