Life Tricks

[The Dice Man]

To prevent tears when cutting onions simply wrap glad wrap around your head like sunglasses. Works a treat although you do look a little bit like a performance enhanced tour de France cyclist, sans Lycra.

 

[The Slitherin' Snake]

To prevent tears when cutting onions simply wrap glad wrap around your head like sunglasses. Works a treat although you do look a little bit like a performance enhanced tour de France cyclist, sans Lycra.

Or just put them in the fridge before cutting them up

 

[Warner_Bros_FC]

If you chop around the bed of tears (the really dense core that extends a couple of inches down from the top), onions won't make you cry.

How do you chop that bit out? From this video he chops a whole chunk out. Seems a bit wasteful to me.

 

[Caesar]

He cuts out a lot more than I do.

I just cut it in half, and then chop around the top bit of the bed of tears. You loose a couple of cubic inches of onion but you avoid the bulk of the fumes.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

He cuts out a lot more than I do.

I just cut it in half, and then chop around the top bit of the bed of tears. You loose a couple of cubic inches of onion but you avoid the bulk of the fumes.

Chop onions in half, remove the outer skin. Place in a single row, face down in an airtight container in freezer for 15 minutes.

Remove, place cut side down on tray. Slice/dice/chop whatever.

15 minutes isn't enough to damage the internal composition of the onions, but enough to stop the majority of the fumes.

 

[kfc1]

i just get the wife to do it - problem solved

 

[Quivorir]

Or just man up, accept the tears and cut the ****ing onion.

 

[Warner_Bros_FC]

Or just man up, accept the tears and cut the ******* onion.

But real men don't cry.

 

[ClarkeM]

Just chew gum?

 

[Quivorir]

But real men don't cry.

 

[Gough]

I reckon it depends on the onion. Sometimes it has no effect, other times I'm like Kim Hughes at a press conference.

 

[THRILLHO]

Breathing through your mouth pretty much stops the potential for onions causing you to cry.

 

[Syrah]

I'm not affected by onions at all. I think it might be because I wear contacts. Unfortunately, the wife knows this so I am now official onion cutter in our house.

 

[SpaceCow]

I second the gum notion. Works a treat.

 

[Summer Nights]

Sorry if this has been said. I honestly just realised that opening jars with your left hand on the lid rather than your right is much easier. Must be to do with the leverage (I'm right-handed).

 

[Warner_Bros_FC]

Sorry if this has been said. I honestly just realised that opening jars with your left hand on the lid rather than your right is much easier. Must be to do with the leverage (I'm right-handed).

I usually just grab a thin spoon or butter knife and wrench it under the lid so the air pops out. After that, the lid comes loose.

Like this:

 

[NarniMagic]

 

[moistie]

Lose weight quickly by eating raw pork or rancid tuna. The subsequent food poisoning/diarrhoea will enable you to lose up to 5 kilos in only 2 days.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Lose weight quickly by eating raw pork or rancid tuna. The subsequent food poisoning/diarrhoea will enable you to lose up to 5 kilos in only 2 days.

couldn't that be fatal?

 

[Schulzenfest]

Well then you'll lose even more weight, won't you?

 

[moistie]

couldn't that be fatal?

Maybe but you'd look fantastic for the open coffin funeral.

 

[aNty]

Press control and backspace to delete whole words instead of deleting individual letters.

 

[LANGFORDandSON]

I usually just grab a thin spoon or butter knife and wrench it under the lid so the air pops out. After that, the lid comes loose.

Maybe you could just get your little sister to open it for you.

I kid.

 

[Igloo]

This is close to a life trick, so i'm putting it in here.
How do I make my roast potatoes crunchy?! Is there some sort of trick to it, or is it dependent on the oven? I need crunchiness!

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

NEVER poke the payroll (until your leaving party ).