Be Cool - Don't Cry!

When making a dish that required hand diceing of about 5 dozen onions, I found the following tip very useful. If you are only going to need a couple of onions for a dish - this works great!

If you are planning on cutting up onions during the day, put the whole, unpeeled onions in the refrigerator to cool them down a few hours earlier.

Cut cold onions makes for greatly reduced tears - virtually none!