How to Avoid Tears While Onion Cutting 

 

As each of us who have cutting onion in kitchen by knife, our eyes will be not easy for bear a little long time cutting.Because cut onions emit some compounds which cause eyes releasing tears. 

 

Eye stimulus can be avoided by cutting onions under running water or submerged in a basin of water. Leaving the root end intact also reduces irritation as the onion base has a higher concentration of sulphur compounds than the rest of the bulb. 

 

Also if for large restaurant, can adopt a onion peeling machine and onion root top tail cutting machine.Which can save the labors also the stimulus.

 

Refrigerating the onions before use reduces the enzyme reaction rate and using a fan can blow the gas away from the eyes. The more often one chops onions, the less one experiences eye irritation.