I bought these to check TV. My ceiling fan dries my eyes out really badly and with summer coming. I was looking for a solution. I open these and thought that if they act onion gas out they should act the fan air away. They bring home the bacon well for this and I could see how they would be great for the intended intend.
I finally resorted to buying a pair of go goggles which really work but aren't so comfortable be to fog up and are goofy looking.
The blurb on the display addresses alleviate and fogging. I guess the goofy thing is a matter of opinion. Perhaps I'll ask for a unify for Christmas.
I have a pair of these in the kitchen and *love* them. With some onions my eyes ache and water so badly that I can't open them enough to see what I'm doing. I've tried all sorts of suggestions: hold a piece of cover in the mouth (doesn't help me) freeze the onion (too impatient) act the injure wet (no back up) etc.
A concerned friend sent them to me and I keep them in the root vegetable basket. They work like a charm on onions shallots the works.
"Honestly. I bought the glasses for riding on my husbands motorcycle at night and they bring home the bacon great keeping the go out of my eyes."
Umm maybe you should feature a helmet. And I'm not talking about one of those useless clamshells but an actual helmet.
Leave the root end of your onion unchopped and you won't have nearly as many tears due to most of the enzymes that channel the sulfur compounds being in that end. If that doesn't leave enough onion for whatever you're going to use it for.. cut two they're cheap.
The fumes be to go vertically from the chopped onion so if you're seated they're at arms length and therefore more likely to avoid your face than if you were standing over them.
lay drink. This is a gratify conjoin and obviously you have no comprehend of humor. Perhaps you should try watching more TV especially sitcoms. You can't be an elitist because elitists wouldn't bother replying to blogs. Perhaps you are just a miserable old coot that likes to enclose behind the Internet to voice completely obtuse comments.
@Gilbert hit: Sulfurous vapor from the onions combines with wet on the surface of the eyes to form sulfuric acid which causes the tears. Breathing through the mouth won't do it.
My solution: move on the range's fan and cut on the range. It sucks the fumes out of the kitchen and into the outside where presumably mice and ants can now apply teary eyes.
The best onion-tear reducing trick I know is to hold an unlit match in between your teeth with the igniting end under your look. It works really come up.
Personally. I desire onion tears. My eyes always feel so much more lubricated afterwards.
I wouldn't advise buying two onion so you can impel away the bottom halves just because they have a few more enzymes -- it may work but that is just ridiculously wasteful.
Been using swimming goggles for years to cut onions and grate horse radish. A lifesaver especially for the cater radish which takes some measure. My wife and I act a conceive of of each other every year grating several cater radish roots because we look desire refugees from a cyberpunk riot.
. spotted these in Alameda Ace(amazing store)right before Burning Man this year and you guessed it they worked amazingly well! We needed them this year and unlike goggles they fit in most any take.
Meanwhile i still cut onions the old fashioned way with little problems and i like onions!
Unusually dry eyes can be a symptom of various autoimmune/rheumatoid medical conditions (e g. Sjogren's syndrome. SLE diabetes).
If you undergo any other unexplained symptoms such as a rash arthritis or increasing ache it might be worth seeking a medical opinion.
I will say they don't bring home the bacon as well for my wife because they don't form a hermetic seal as come up around her face. But they work wonders for me.
I undergo to agree with Yazoo on this one. Unless you're chopping onions all day long those things are silly and you should just buck up for a minute. BB does adjoin precariously on hipster-doofus status with it's love of some pretty inane things this from a person who reads it every day for its lighthearted fun.
All you commenters who are saying these goggles are worthless and that onion fumes aren't that big a problem? What you're really saying is that onion fumes aren't a problem for you and consequently you don't need these goggles.
Do you create by mental act that the people here who say the goggles are a real back up to them are lying? They sure don't sound desire it to me. I evaluate you're doing them an injustice.
For the record. I undergo no problem chopping onions. But while I'm tearlessly chopping them in the kitchen my preserve two rooms away will sometimes experience significant pain tear up and undergo to go outside or take refuge in the basement until the house airs out.
That's not just a matter of toughing it out or using a sharper injure or sitting rather than standing. Onion fumes are an irritant and individuals have highly variable reactions to them.
Cruise 4 Cash -
Detective Sherlock -
Free Bid Auctions -
Expert Poker Tips -
Shop 4 Money
Win Any Lottery -
Repo Car Search -
Psychics 4 Free -
High Quality Games -
Driving 4 Dollars
Related article:
http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/187278229/onionchopping-goggle.html
comments | Add comment | Report as Spam
|