My tender eyeballs
I love onions.
Sadly, onions hate me.
I have tried every trick I have heard to reduce onion-related eye pain (burning a candle, wearing goggles, holding a piece of bread in my mouth), and it is still an irritating experience every time. Last night I caramelized onions for French onion soup, and it was so bad that I was getting stabbing pains in my brain. I remember times when I was a kid that my eyes would burn at night, and I didn’t realize at the time what was causing it, but I bet it was when my dad cooked onions.
The only trick that does work is chilling the onions beforehand, but unfortunately I’m not organized enough to plan my onion-cutting more than about two minutes in advance. I get these onion urges, see? When I get a compulsion to cook with onions, I just can’t wait for them to sit in the fridge for an hour.
Is it ok to store onions in the fridge? I always keep them in the onion drawer. It seems a shame to render my onion drawer useless. I guess I could keep something else in there.
Alternatively, does anybody know any strategies that actually work?
