snakefiddler wrote:

snakefiddler- who rarely fails to read wolfie's posts

Is he writing bodice-ripping soft-core-porn romance novels under a
pseudonym?

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"rw" wrote in message
ink.net...
snakefiddler wrote:

snakefiddler- who rarely fails to read wolfie's posts

Is he writing bodice-ripping soft-core-porn romance novels under a
pseudonym?

Check your files.

Wolfgang
um......on second thought, don't bother.........you won't find any thirteen
year old girls.

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:45:48 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:



Based on that advice, I do NOT want to know how to get the sting out of the
eyes.

Wear glasses? My kids couldn't stand to chop onions, but I had no
problem. They didn't wear glasses, I did. Do not put your hands
anywhere near your eyes until the hands are clean.

Or maybe it's my head tilt. I saw no reason to hover my face over the
onions while slicing. Standing back a decent distance, but within
arm's reach might be the trick?

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:16:46 -0600, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


"Cyli" wrote in message
.. .
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:33:14 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

Wayne Harrison wrote:
...
wolfgang's style makes for a very big onion,
and requires some patience in peeling. still, much can be gained in the
performance of that duty.

The only thing gained in that exercise is smelly hands and
watery eyes.


But the hands can be cleaned of the smell or onions by rubbing them
against the sides of the steel knife you used to slice the onion as
you rinse it under running water.

I tried that. It didn't work. I think it wasn't just on my
hands.........it seems to have gotten all over me somehow. :(

Wolfgang
and the neighbors are starting to point......and whisper......and snicker.
:(


Are you sure it's because of the onions?



Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)

"Cyli" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:45:48 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:



Based on that advice, I do NOT want to know how to get the sting out of
the
eyes.

Wear glasses? My kids couldn't stand to chop onions, but I had no
problem. They didn't wear glasses, I did. Do not put your hands
anywhere near your eyes until the hands are clean.

Or maybe it's my head tilt. I saw no reason to hover my face over the
onions while slicing. Standing back a decent distance, but within
arm's reach might be the trick?



I find no consistency in any strategy I try. Just last night, I was slicing
some onions and was doing the 'lean back' trick, and it worked right up
until the last second. I've heard that doing it under running water works,
but I can't figure out how to cut them very neatly with water running over
them. The glasses sound strange, as the air currents can move around them
easily. Certainly the fingers away from the face thing sounds logical.

Don't know what the solution is, but I know there are about as many
suggestions as there are cooks. I think the origins of superstition and
voodoo must have started with someone who came up with a method to keep
their eyes from watering when cutting onions.

--riverman

"riverman" wrote in message
...
I find no consistency in any strategy I try. Just last night, I was
slicing some onions and was doing the 'lean back' trick, and it worked
right up until the last second. I've heard that doing it under running
water works, but I can't figure out how to cut them very neatly with water
running over them. The glasses sound strange, as the air currents can move
around them easily. Certainly the fingers away from the face thing sounds
logical.

Don't know what the solution is, but I know there are about as many
suggestions as there are cooks. I think the origins of superstition and
voodoo must have started with someone who came up with a method to keep
their eyes from watering when cutting onions.

--riverman

Hold a slice of white bread in your mouth. You'll have to move it around a
bit, as it becomes soggy, but it works.

Mark

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:36:38 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:



I find no consistency in any strategy I try. Just last night, I was slicing
some onions and was doing the 'lean back' trick, and it worked right up
until the last second. I've heard that doing it under running water works,

Very slow and low pressure running water might make that easier.

but I can't figure out how to cut them very neatly with water running over
them. The glasses sound strange, as the air currents can move around them
easily. Certainly the fingers away from the face thing sounds logical.

Don't know what the solution is, but I know there are about as many
suggestions as there are cooks. I think the origins of superstition and
voodoo must have started with someone who came up with a method to keep
their eyes from watering when cutting onions.

There is the solution my kids found. Get someone else to cut the
onions...

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 05:02:34 -0500, "bearsbuddy" wrote:


"riverman" wrote in message
...
I find no consistency in any strategy I try. Just last night, I was
slicing some onions and was doing the 'lean back' trick, and it worked
right up until the last second. I've heard that doing it under running
water works, but I can't figure out how to cut them very neatly with water
running over them. The glasses sound strange, as the air currents can move
around them easily. Certainly the fingers away from the face thing sounds
logical.

Don't know what the solution is, but I know there are about as many
suggestions as there are cooks. I think the origins of superstition and
voodoo must have started with someone who came up with a method to keep
their eyes from watering when cutting onions.

--riverman

Hold a slice of white bread in your mouth. You'll have to move it around a
bit, as it becomes soggy, but it works.

Oh, lawdy, lawdy...nope, not gonna touch this softball, just gonna let the
imagery linger for others' inspiration and/or comment...

As to (actual) onions, cut the root and stem ends off, remove outer peel, cut in
half from root to stem ends, and briefly rinse. Further cut as
needed/appropriate. Supposedly, a couple of strikerless matches in one's mouth
will prevent tears (I suppose if you have a sogginess problem with them, you
also have a drool issue to deal with...) but I've found the above cut and rinse
method to work.

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
...

"snakefiddler" wrote in message
...

very well said, counselor

snakefiddler- who rarely fails to read wolfie's posts

Good God, woman! There are any number of individuals in this group who
are willing (as well as eminently qualified) to make up a recommended
reading list! Bill? Chuck? Uncle Wally?............


Personally, I'm finding TimJ's ability to hit the witticism on the head in 3
words or less quite inspirational.

--riverman
damn, that was 19 words.
(Oops, 25.)
(27, counting the 25.)
(...31)

wrote in message
...

As to (actual) onions, cut the root and stem ends off, remove outer peel,
cut in
half from root to stem ends, and briefly rinse. Further cut as
needed/appropriate.

Years ago, I sold 'Judys Hot Dogs' in downtown Portland, OR, and each
morning was charged with the duty of stocking the onion trays with about 10
dozen sliced onions. Everyone in the place had their own method of slicing
and dicing, but I discovered a method almost exactly like yours above that
ensured that I had a pile of nice, clean chopped onion, with no evidence of
the outer skin, and nice regular pieces.

Slice the root and stem ends off. Look at the end, and if the center ring is
offcenter, place the onion so that the very center of the middle shell is on
the midline. (this is exactly the same as how you split wood with an offset
center, if you get my drift. Orient it so that the axe passes through the
center of the heartwood). Slice the onion in half through the root/stem
ends.

Once you have a pile of onion halves, sans ends, then go peel off the outer
wrapper and put the clean interiors aside. You don't even need to rinse them
if you are careful peeling off the skin.

Taked your pile of clean onion halves and cut them in slices parallel to the
root or stem end, turn 90deg and slice in a 'radiant' pattern down towards
the center.


Years later (that would be a few years ago), I saw some chef on a cooking
channel give a quick tutorial on how to properly chop onions to make clean,
even slices, and he used my method. SWMBO turned to me and said 'hey, you
should charge royalties!'

:-)
--riverman