Image The “radial” or “Lyonnaise” cut recommends angling your knife toward the center of the onion.Credit...J. Kenji López-Alt To figure out which method is better, years ago I enlisted ...

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From wearing goggles to rubbing the knife with lemon juice, home cooks have come up with a wide variety of clever tricks to keep themselves from crying while cutting onions in the kitchen.

Home remedies based around food and drinks, like chicken soup for a cold or ginger ale for an upset stomach, are often passed down from generation to generation. VERIFY asked readers about their ...

If you find your onion has sprouted — aka, that there's a green stalk poking out the top — have no fear. You can still eat them, but cut the sprout out before using the onion, since it's ...

J. Kenji López-Alt Cutting an onion up and down yields wonderfully even squares in the middle, but as you get toward the edges, the shapes come out increasingly stretched and elongated.