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So many people on here are like "How do I stop crying when I chop onions?" Well, I just put a desk fan on the countertop. It disperses the onions' tear gas, and blows it away from you. Even when I have the fan blowing right at me across the cutting board (which in theory means the onion fumes are aimed right at my eyes), the fan keeps the gas so diluted in the air that I feel absolutely nothing.

https://i.imgur.com/MaWLZn5.jpeg

Edit since this is apparently a popular comment: Yes. sharp knives reduce the problem. And I always keep my knives freshly sharpened. But sharp knives do not eliminate onion gas.

I guess people are saying to sharpen my knives because you're used to finding people who throw their knives in a drawer where they get as dull as ballpoint pens? Yeah, I don't do that.

I just threw the hems in the scrap heap. Then I used them for tension checks whenever I started sewing something. Now I unpicked all of that test-stitching and reused them!