A professional chef has revealed the secret to slicing onions that won't make you cry. Ian Sutton, chef lecturer at Capital City College, advised home chefs to start by peeling the vegetables whole ...

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Wipe away your tears, both figuratively and literally. When you learn how to cut an onion, you’ll be shocked to see how ...

I often receive emails from our readers, who will ask questions about a recipe or culinary technique or share a memory about a dish we recently featured. Many of you have the same questions, and I am ...

Common ways to cut up an onion include dicing, mincing, and slicing. A sharp chef's knife is the best tool for cutting onions and will minimize eye irritation. Chopped onions can be stored in the ...

We’ve all had that moment when a simple onion turns a calm kitchen into a tearful little drama. You’re cooking for friends, you’re on a deadline, or you just want dinner swift and quiet—then your eyes ...

Toward the end of Henrik Ibsen’s play “Peer Gynt,” a saga of the self under siege, we find Gynt deep in the forest, peeling a wild onion. He compares his many selves – cheat, shipwreck survivor, liar, ...