From Italian pasta sauces to Indian curries, dishes from around the world all feature one key ingredient - the humble onion. While they're undoubtedly delicious, onions can be a nightmare to chop.

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Chopping onions is an age-old problem. Cutting them irritates your eyes and makes you cry bitter tears, but it's also hard to find a savory dish that you can't improve with some cut-up onions. What's ...

It’s your kitchen. You can cry if you want to. But with sharper knives, you might not need to. Cutting onions slowly with sharper knives slashes the number of tear-inducing droplets the vegetables ...

Mon, February 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC Before you can master chopping an onion, you need to understand your knife. Many chefs’ knives have curved blades, while cleavers tend to have flatter blades and ...