I purchased a set of cheap swimming goggles for $6. Functions just the same.

or....just slice the onion underwater...

Or you can suck up your pride and just wear swimming goggles for about $5. I keep a pair in the kitchen. I have no shame.

or.... dig out your overly glazed ocular balls with a spoon, then slice the onion

Watch those fingers underwater. You'll still be crying if you hit one of those digits. lol

I always use only a Scuba mask personally, but if I had to cut them under water I'd need the regulator and tank too. Too much trouble.

Keeping ones mouth closed whilst slicing the onion, will keep the tears from flowing...

I don't cook but I can see a better use of these goggles. My eyes get irritated at night since I have to keep my window open to cool my tiny room with two computers and a 360. After 10+ hours of staring at a screen, my eyes can become quite sensitive. Keeping that breeze away from my eyes is worth 20 bucks to me. Luckily I was able to find the black model online :)

I'm sorry but if you actually buy these you are screwed for the rest of your life. You are a WUSS and a tool. I recommend soaking your head until your suckitude passes, but it probably never will.

I also heard burninating a candle will help, and if you use the right one, it might help set the mooooooooooood.

"The [Onion] Goggles do nothing!"

Or you could whistle while you cut onions. It blows the fumes away from your face.

Karmaghost beat me to it.

That can't work... cuz the crying effect comes throught the smell, not 'going to the eye balls'. So all you have to do is hold your breath while slice the onions. Or simply buy them already sliced. =)

What if you already wear glasses and need them when you cut onions or you might end up a few fingers short??? Do they make prescription onion goggles? Seriously.

Whether the route is through the nose or eyes; the solution is to hold a slice of bread between your lips while slicing.

Whether the route is through the eyes or nose, the solution is to hold a slice a bread between your lips while slicing the onion.

Whether the route is through the eyes or the nose, the solution is to hold a slice of bread between your lips while slicing the onion.

Actually, you cry because the sulphur in the onion reacts with the tear in your eyes to produce sulphuric acid (the same kind in your car battery). Hence the crying because well, it's a fairly potent acid, and your eyes produce more tears to help flush it away. So the goggles may help, as do anything else that keep the sulphur away from your eyes (scuba/dive mask, etc).

Dunno about the utility to keep dry eyes from drying out...