[Sca-cooks] peeling onions/inability to cut onions

[Leah A. Montgomery]

>All the suggestions so far work to some degree, but I think my personal
>favorites so far are a combination of these three:
>
>(1) make sure your non-serrated knife is sharp
>(2) make sure your onions are cold
>(3) wear swim goggles and hospital gloves

>Put them in the freezer for a few minutes before you cut them.

>Or hold a slice of bread in your mouth

>Maybe a different type of onion?

>work near a fan or open window. plenty of ventilation helps. getting a 
>small battery powered fan to >blow across the board helps disperse the 
>chemicals faster.

>I've found that a lit candle near the cutting board can help.

This must be done on the full moon of an alternate month, but only on 
Tuesdays. Set up your fan near the work board, run the onions under cold 
water then freeze them for 2.5 minutes, and place them in the refrigerator 
for another 3.75 minutes. Light your candle, but make sure that the fan 
cannot blow it out. Open your window. (If it's winter, the shivering will 
help take you mind off of the onion juice.) Don your surgical gloves and 
swim goggles, do the onion cutting war dance three times, sharpen your knife 
in preparation of the sacrifice of said onion. Do not use a serrated knife!! 
To do so is to raspberry the onion dieties in the face, they will get you! 
Pray to whatever personal diety you believe in. Take a deep breath, put a 
piece of bread in your mouth, put in your contact lenses *without removing 
the goggles!!* and cut away.

Sorry for the irreverance, but I couldn't help myself. On a serious note 
though, I'd just get frozen onions, or if you really want to cut the onions 
yourself, cut them all at the same time, then freeze them. It saves on later 
time, and you only have to suffer once.





Leah A. Montgomery
SCA: Safia bint Wahib al Marakeshi called Samira
Head of Byat Al Viola Hirrar
Bryn Gwlad, Ansteorra (Austin, TX)
mog_bane at hotmail.com

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