Food Tips & Info > Helpful HintsMarch 14, 2008

Use Your Fan When Chopping Onions

Fed up with the tears when cutting up onions? Put your cutting board on the stove (while the burners were off, of course) and turn on the range's vent fan. Chop my onions tear-free!

Source: A tip from another thrifty newsletter submitted by Sarah S

By Diana from Prospect

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03/15/2008

you can also put the onion in the freezer for about 1/2 hour prior to cutting and presto... no tears this way either.

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