Earlier today on my Swedish blog, I published a post about a simple way to avoid crying when chopping onions.

It turned out that a lot of people didn’t know about this trick, so I thought I’d share it here at Neatorama as well. Hopefully some of you readers will find it useful.

Ok, here it goes: Put a little bit of water in your mouth.

That’s it! Just some plain water in your mouth while cutting the onion and you can wave goodbye to those tears.

From what I’ve heard, it’s due to the fact that you’re only breathing through the nose by doing so. So basically, just keeping the mouth closed should work just as fine, but it’s probably not as easy as it sounds.

Link (in Swedish)

Olivia Putnal of Woman’s Day has pictures and descriptions of eight unusual chocolate-covered foods, including crickets, Fritos, beef jerky, and squid. Pictured above is a chocolate-covered onion, which photographer Jean-Paul de Guzman described as eating a raw onion “followed by a bite off of a Hershey’s chocolate bar.”

Link via The Presurfer

“Slice an onion, separate into rings, and stack it to make a cone. Then
fill with oil and water, and get annoying restaurant patrons to lean in
really close with their cameraphones to see what percentage of their
eyebrows you can remove. Optionally, add soy sauce for lava.”

- via videosift