Bonus Tip

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I chopped nearly 20 pounds of onions for this experiment, using all the different "cures." This photo represents less than half the total onions I diced. And midway through my test -- after I'd tried all the methods and products once and was going back to double check using different kids of onions -- I noticed something strange. The onions weren't really making me cry much at all. Even when I tried a method that I'd found not to work, or no method at all. My eyes seemed to have built up resistance to the effects of the irritants in the onions. So if you find yourself needing to dice a whole bunch of onions, without recourse to any of the methods I liked, take solace in the fact that it gets better.