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Maybe you're sensitive to the sulfur containing compounds which onions have, which give them their "bite" and their pungency, as well as making eyes tear. No I

Maybe you're sensitive to the sulfur containing compounds which onions have, which give them their "bite" and their pungency, as well as making eyes tear. No I love onions, they're pretty much used in every dish I make.

nsxwolf 4y ago
Maybe. Is it then weird that I absolutely love garlic? I've surprised some people with that one. They think that because they're in the same family, it would make sense that I'd hate both.
- unlikelymordant 4y ago
  I'm like this. Any amount of onion (cooked or uncooked) in a dish ruins the dish for me. If it completely fried down to the point of being unrecognizable its fine. I happily eat garlic though. I wonder if theres a genetic thing like with cilantro.
ggm 4y ago
My dad overtly hated them, but if cooked long, and hard, barely noticed. My mum used to make a point of adding garlic to things, as long as he only found black fried chunks he was content. There's food allergy, anaphylaxis, intolerance, sensitivity, and "I don't like it" all mixed up in this.
denton-scratch 4y ago
Rotting onions do stink. It seems to be a special trick that onions do, to rot from the inside. So the outer copule of layers of the onion are fine, but then there's two layers of mushy brownish stuff, then the onion's core is fine again. You can't tell if your onion's rotting without cutting it open. This can be super-annoying if it's your last onion, because I don't care to use rotting onions. With respect to tears: my daughter adopted the practice of slicing onions while wearing swimming goggles. I think she was about 12 years old when she first did that; she's 35 now, and is still doing it. She looks a hoot, but looking daft is better than suffering. I think I've developed immunity to sulphenic acid myself.
- elyobo 4y ago
  Contact lenses, for those that wear them, also largely mitigate the tears and stinging.
- Synaesthesia 4y ago
  Onions are actually toxic to many animals, clearly they developed these noxious compounds as a defense mechanism, but then humans developed a tolerance and taste for them! Just another chapter in the ongoing biological "arms race". Yeah when I chop an onion I sometimes just gotta take a little break.
- kayodelycaon 4y ago
  I use swim goggles as well. :)

nsxwolf 4y ago

Maybe. Is it then weird that I absolutely love garlic? I've surprised some people with that one. They think that because they're in the same family, it would make sense that I'd hate both.

unlikelymordant 4y ago
I'm like this. Any amount of onion (cooked or uncooked) in a dish ruins the dish for me. If it completely fried down to the point of being unrecognizable its fine. I happily eat garlic though. I wonder if theres a genetic thing like with cilantro.

ggm 4y ago

My dad overtly hated them, but if cooked long, and hard, barely noticed. My mum used to make a point of adding garlic to things, as long as he only found black fried chunks he was content. There's food allergy, anaphylaxis, intolerance, sensitivity, and "I don't like it" all mixed up in this.

denton-scratch 4y ago

Rotting onions do stink. It seems to be a special trick that onions do, to rot from the inside. So the outer copule of layers of the onion are fine, but then there's two layers of mushy brownish stuff, then the onion's core is fine again. You can't tell if your onion's rotting without cutting it open. This can be super-annoying if it's your last onion, because I don't care to use rotting onions. With respect to tears: my daughter adopted the practice of slicing onions while wearing swimming goggles. I think she was about 12 years old when she first did that; she's 35 now, and is still doing it. She looks a hoot, but looking daft is better than suffering. I think I've developed immunity to sulphenic acid myself.

elyobo 4y ago
Contact lenses, for those that wear them, also largely mitigate the tears and stinging.
Synaesthesia 4y ago
Onions are actually toxic to many animals, clearly they developed these noxious compounds as a defense mechanism, but then humans developed a tolerance and taste for them! Just another chapter in the ongoing biological "arms race". Yeah when I chop an onion I sometimes just gotta take a little break.
kayodelycaon 4y ago
I use swim goggles as well. :)