AAAAAAARGH!!!

[Ewan]

That is the sound I make as the infernal red onion juice hits my eye. What follows is an intense mixture of confusion, blindness and pain.

For too long I have been suffering the horrors of chopping onions, and I'm asking for advice on how to stop the ghastly juices reaching my eye. I've tried a variety of methods, my most cunning idea of using my safety goggles from chemistry failed miserably.

I asked my dad what he would do and he said to use white onions.

 

[Caedus]

You can't "escape" the tears and such, but putting your face in the freezer's air and stuff will knock out the burning sensation and tearing up INSTANTLY. It's a sinus thing, not optical. Covering your eyes just ensures that you'll tear up and your eyes will burn worse. Do the freezer thing for relief, but there's really nothing to prevent this. But you could try putting Vicks just beneath your nose like CSIs do when coming into contact with a corpse. I'd try it if I had Vicks. I hope I helped a tinyful bit.

 

[Ness]

Onions are onions in this regard, sadly enough.

The tears are causes by vapors that the onions release as you cut into them. So, in theory, if you find some way to shield your eyes completely, you can be immune from tears. However, this is nearly impossible.

I've heard that people who wear contact lenses don't suffer, but I wear glasses myself, so what would I know?

EDIT: What Caedus said above makes sense too, but I'm not entirely certain. I've never tried that, though...and I might the next time I chop onions.

 

[Caedus]

I tried googling some epic stuff for you, but all the results from google keeps redirecting me to links that don't go to said info. I stand corrected as far as the goggles, as they seem to be the top suggestion in my search results. Sorry.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

My boyfriend always uses swimming goggles and he said it works brilliantly.

I would advice getting really tight goggles so that the vapours don't get into them.

Or you could always get one of those amazing vegetable slicing boards in which you place the onion onto this handle that you grip onto and on the other side is spikes that stab into it.

You then run it up and down the blades and within seconds you have a sliced onion and the vapours would have hardly any time to reach you. XD

 

[OnionKing]

The Onion King strikes again! MwHahaha!

But seriously, like they said, it's the vapour that messes you up. I feel like I suffer more when wearing contacts and not regular specs. Go for goggles.