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Topic: Onions
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Ira
Member Posts: 932
From:Portland, Oregon
Registered: Jun 99
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posted June 29, 2004 10:54 AM
  
I'm doing some research on onions - do any of you have any good information on the subject (history, etc.)?Along those lines, I've heard many stories, but do any of the so called methods to make you not cry actually work? Actually, I know of one that definitely works - wear contact lenses. IP: Logged |
Mentha
Member Posts: 15
From:SLO County, CA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted June 29, 2004 03:43 PM
I do know that the Isrealites complained in the desert with Moses over onions, leeks, and garlic. A good way to keep from crying is to place a medium size piece of bread in the back of your mouth covering the hole going to your sinuses, not too big that you will choke, just big enough to hold with your tounge. It's not the smells going into your nose, that makes you cry, it's them going through that hole onto your palet. You can't smell without tasting also. Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: ------------------
Rhonda Grace I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the L*RD, keep not silence. Isaiah 62:6 IP: Logged |
Chef Bob
Member Posts: 97
From:Birmingham Alabama USA
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted June 29, 2004 05:57 PM
I like to peel 15 or 20 onions leaving them whole. place in a plastic container covered with damp cheese cloth. Refreigerate overnight. When you chopp them the next day or 2 they have released some of the sulfuric gas. Problem, the walk in will smell alittle like onion so make sure everything is covered and your pastry chef has everything out of your cooler. We are now in prime Vidalia onoin season. they are so sweet and have zero sulfuric gas you can eat them like apples. NO tears with them!!!!IP: Logged |
Leo
Member Posts: 1284
From:Hertford, North Carolina, USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted June 29, 2004 06:23 PM
Member Jeni...on her website mentioned freezing them for a bit...I have also done alot of research and the common conclusion is that...nothing works perfectly...Just enjoy them!
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Shara
Member Posts: 16
From:Nashville, TN USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted June 30, 2004 08:15 AM
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Originally posted by Ira:
I'm doing some research on onions - do any of you have any good information on the subject (history, etc.)?Along those lines, I've heard many stories, but do any of the so called methods to make you not cry actually work? Actually, I know of one that definitely works - wear contact lenses.
Sorry about the post. I must have lost the info a second ago. a Toothpick in your mouth has worked for me you have to change it out often. I also have found that breathing though my mouth helps. [This message has been edited by Shara (edited June 30, 2004).] IP: Logged |
Leo
Member Posts: 1284
From:Hertford, North Carolina, USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted June 30, 2004 08:19 AM
Shara! Praise the Lord! So glad to *see* you back! Been praying for you Sis...
Now about those contact lenses...thats a new one on me...I had never heard that one.
Your Bro
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Leo
Member Posts: 1284
From:Hertford, North Carolina, USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted June 30, 2004 08:37 AM
Your right Chef Bob! Love those Vidalias!..I have heard that sweet onions are the most consumed veggie...IP: Logged |
Earl Dowdle
Member Posts: 121
From:Salt Lake City, Utah
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted June 30, 2004 09:29 AM
Here's a method that I use for chopping or dicing onion with a fair amount of success-
Cut off top of onion and peel onion then cut in half lengthwise.Place onion on cutting board flat side down. Starting approximately 1/2 inch from root end of onion make lengthwise slices through the onion (thick slices for chop-thinner slices for dice) Turn onion 90 degrees and begin slicing the onion width-wise, make these slices the same width as your lengthwise slices. Stop slicing when you’ve reached the end of the lengthwise cuts. Use onion tops and the root end for making onion stock. I find that if I stop chopping or slicing onions 1/2 inch from the root end I don’t tear up as much. I also read some years ago that a lot of the sulfur compounds that make you cry are located in the root end of the onion. One trick that my sister-in-law claims that works is having a portable fan blowing air across the onion thus blowing the sulfur compounds away from her face. I have also observed that some people lean over their cutting boards, thus placing their face right above the onion. If they are wearing ball-caps, the bill of the hat “traps” the sulfur compounds in the face area.
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Kathleen
Member Posts: 58
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Registered: Oct 2003
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posted July 01, 2004 12:20 AM
In the church kitchen this year we've tried every method known to man that supposedly stopped onions from irritating the eyes, including holding a match in your mouth while cutting them. I can tell you that nothing, I do mean nothing worked, except wearing swimming goggles. We had a lot of laughs over that one. Now I put on my mascara when the onions are all done. IP: Logged |
Leo
Member Posts: 1284
From:Hertford, North Carolina, USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted July 01, 2004 07:28 AM
I tell folks that prepping onions is therapy. Especially in men who are not *supposed* to cry...Yeah it is irritating and sometimes it hurts...but there is something about the tears. For me they are connected to our feelings and as such * allow* me to cry over things that I need to cry about. I feel better afterwards..my little onion therapy session is very cleansing.
In the Fathers creation plan perhaps like thorns do not diminish the beauty or fragrance of the rose..it is a unique part of the Rose..a most beautiful God thing.
...We all know how vital onions are to our cooking Amen? Like all of the Father's creation each uniquely created to glorify His creativity..How honored we are to use HIs creations in *creating* ( or co-creating as I like to put it) in all we do as culinarians...even at the cost of a few tears...
I think I need to cut some onions... ------------------
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tyronebcookin
Member Posts: 118
From:Alabama (but travel out of country most of the year)
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted July 05, 2004 03:18 AM
Believe it or not, we never really tried to figure it out...I have a couple of food science books here to reference BUT, a long time ago it was common practice for whoever cut the thin onion slices for fried 'shoestrings' took a big piece of plastic wrap and covered the eyes and twisted the rest behind our head...you kind of looked like a ninja turtle...but it got the job done when you had pounds of onion to prep all at once!IP: Logged |
Leo
Member Posts: 1284
From:Hertford, North Carolina, USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted July 05, 2004 03:48 AM
Cowabunga Dude! Makes me sniffle just thinking about it! I love 'em though!
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Mentha
Member Posts: 15
From:SLO County, CA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted July 08, 2004 02:28 PM
Although lately I've not needed onions to cry, I have found some information on onions. It is hard to take creedence in some of these sites, because I believe 7 days are 7 days, and the world is only about 6000 years old. The Bible's timeline says so, so I believe it. Anyways, here are some websites with a bit of history on onions."In onion there is strength."~Abraham Lincoln
http://www.onions-usa.org/about/history.asp
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/vegetabletravelers/onions.html
http://www.potandon.com/ss_onion_history.htm
http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/generic_frame.html?Alli_cep.html
http://www.herbalgram.org/youngliving/herbalgram/articleview.asp?a=2642
http://www.cambridge-agrifood.com/theonions.php4
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/syllabus/module12.htm hmmm, took me 2 hours to go through these links. there's more than I'd ever want to know about them. ------------------
Rhonda Grace I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the L*RD, keep not silence. Isaiah 62:6 IP: Logged |
Ira
Member Posts: 932
From:Portland, Oregon
Registered: Jun 99
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posted July 09, 2004 01:36 AM
Thanks for all the info Rhonda! You really seem to know how to get some good research done? I just looked through all those links and found most all of them to be very helpful.God bless,
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madarka
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Registered: Feb 2008
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posted February 20, 2008 09:16 AM
Onion is very beneficial by colds or (Asthma only til arrival by doctor).for breathin when having a cold-for littel children cut up a onion and hang it over crib in a sack the fumes will help the child to breath. Older children and adults squise the onion and put it on a plate next to bed.For coff cook onion mash it up and ad some brown sugar or honney During the day take little spoonfuls regurarly.Onion is good for high blood presure,Insekt bites Arterioskelosis and so on Onion a wonder drug
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Originally posted by Ira:
I'm doing some research on onions - do any of you have any good information on the subject (history, etc.)?Along those lines, I've heard many stories, but do any of the so called methods to make you not cry actually work? Actually, I know of one that definitely works - wear contact lenses.
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Ira
Member Posts: 932
From:Portland, Oregon
Registered: Jun 99
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posted February 23, 2008 02:59 AM
I've never heard of those remedies before, but they definitely make sense. I'll consider it next time I get a cold, but I doubt Susanna (my wife) would put up with the bedroom smelling like onions. She's sweet, but everybody has their limits :-)IP: Logged |
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