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October 21, 2006
Onion Goggles (Nothing Like Beer Goggles!)
Funny story.
I was chopping onions today, getting a whole lot of them minced in my chopper, and I was in serious pain. (Did you know that the onion fumes mix with the salt in your tears to make sulfuric acid???? Yeah. Pain.) I thought I could just grit my teeth and make it through, but no. I left the kitchen, could barely open my eyes because they were swollen, and thought of what I could do.
White bread shoved up under my upper lip right under my nose didn't work. Short stints chopping onions didn't work. Nothing worked. So I took drastic measures.
I put my goggles on. Then I put my glasses back on. I was a delight to see. But my eyes weren't burning and I got my onions minced.
Go ahead. Laugh.
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I called my parents to tell them the goggles-onion story and my dad answered, and as I told him the story he laughed till he cried. It was good to hear.
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I tried something else new.
You know the kitchen tip to freeze your extra chicken stock and gravy and stuff in ice cube trays? I froze all that minced onion in my ice cube trays and I will un-tray them tomorrow and put them in a freezer bag. Each cube (they say) is about a tablespoon, so we'll see how this works.
Just Chatter | By The Newest Worker | 09:28 PM
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if you keep your onions in the fridge, and chop them cold, the fumes are GREATLY diminished, and you will hardly ever cry when chopping them.
Posted by: April at October 22, 2006 03:52 PM