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Date: 05 February 2010 05:32:20
So I'm doing a spot of cooking - I've decided on Boston Baked Beans for dinner tonight. Highly recommended.
But anyway, sitting at the table chopping onions and browsing a few forums, it occurred to me that onions don't make me cry anymore. Why is this? I can't think when I last had eye troubles with onions but it was definitely more than 3 years ago.
Possible reasons:
1. I'm taller. This doesn't apply for the current situation because I'm sitting at the table. Also I don't think I'm any taller than I was 10 years ago. But certainly when I was shorter, I had more onion problems.
2. I'm better at peeling onions. My current technique I learned from a TV chef while I was meant to be studying for my HSC (year 12 exams). I think it has made a difference. Year 12 exams were 10 years ago too. This confounds matters somewhat.
3. Onions are less potent. I suppose that tomatoes are less potent than they were in the good old days... perhaps it's somehow related to the rise of the seedless watermelon...
4. I wear contact lenses. Perhaps the onion vapour adsorbs onto the outside of the lenses...
5. My onion receptors have become insensitive or have been downregulated or something...
Others?