This might not be good advice from an onion integrity standpoint, but i don't tear up if i put the onion in the fridge for like an hour before i need to cut it.
I keep mine in the fridge all of the time. I know that's not the "right" storage, but o do it in hopes of staving off the tears
Try cutting one in half before putting it in the fridge.
Onions make me tear up when they're too fresh. Cutting them in half helps speed up the un-freshening.
I wear glasses and only have issues if its a really potent onion. Most of the time I can cut one up and there are no tears involved. Not sure if my glasses are acting as a barrier or if we just luck out and get really mild onions.
I start off with my glasses, but then have to take tjem off, because they get wet, and I can't see.
totally fool proof method is a small fan pointed at your cutting board.
Post by 2curlydogs on Jul 16, 2015 14:03:18 GMT -5
So, I'm on a client conference call. And, for better or worse, behind me is a conference room. Some other folks from my area were in there for a meeting or whatever, but the door was open and they're talking and laughing loudly and I cannot hear what my client is saying.
So I put my phone on mute, turn around and say "Guys. I'm on a call here."
And the person in the doorway pulls a face that could either be interpreted as "Ooh, our bad." or "Damn, cranky bitch."
And then I said "Sorry."
WHY DID I SAY SORRY?!?? I was on a fucking client call and they were being loud and disruptive. I was TOTALLY within my right to say what I did and in the tone I used, which was not mean but definitely annoyed.
I had a totally bizarre dream last night that involved several CEPers. We were all having some sort of giant party at the house where I grew up - which is in the middle of the woods. People were camping in the horse fields, people were all over the house - the place was packed. You guys, high school friends, college friends, local friends, etc.
Anyway...at some point I had to leave, and when I returned, pixy0stix had made the decision to turn off the A/C and open all the windows - and the result of that was that vines had grown through the windows and covered the kitchen. It wasn't really *that* big of a deal, except...some GIANT FUCKIGN SPIDER had also built a giant web above the kitchen sink with a huge HUGE (like avocado sized) spider egg in the middle of it. And then there was a fight with some random dude who crashed the party, and the spider nest got knocked down and people were all blasé about it, and I woke up mid-panic that the nest was about to burst open and let out whatever awful terrifying spider beast was lurking inside and there was nothing I could do about it because I couldnt' get through the chaos to get to it and light it on fire, crush it, hit it with a nuclear strike...you know, whatever it would take.
I definitely laid there all freaked out and convincing myself that there were NOT giant spider eggs about to hatch in my bedroom thinking, "pixy. Figures."
So, I'm on a client conference call. And, for better or worse, behind me is a conference room. Some other folks from my area were in there for a meeting or whatever, but the door was open and they're talking and laughing loudly and I cannot hear what my client is saying.
So I put my phone on mute, turn around and say "Guys. I'm on a call here."
And the person in the doorway pulls a face that could either be interpreted as "Ooh, our bad." or "Damn, cranky bitch."
And then I said "Sorry."
WHY DID I SAY SORRY?!?? I was on a fucking client call and they were being loud and disruptive. I was TOTALLY within my right to say what I did and in the tone I used, which was not mean but definitely annoyed.
*slaps hand*
Don't feel too bad. I still provide a totally needless "sorry" almost daily.
1. What did we do without the Internet/Google? Last night I needed tomato sauce for a recipe, but didn't have any. Within two seconds Bing told me I could add water to tomato paste and mix to get tomato sauce. (1 to 1 ratio)
2. Has anyone discovered a way to not tear up when cutting onions? I swear, I'm going to get those onion googles. My fade is a wet mess, by the time I'm done cutting them.
Put the cutting board in the sink and cut them under a slowly running faucet. Seems to work
My quiet summer here at work just got erased. In the last week I've picked up 2 new quick turn projects, plus a long-term planning for next year for one client.
And today I got put on a project for another client that has a $3M+ budget for just operations cost. We haven't even quoted out the digital portion yet. But the pitch deck was... ambitious.
There goes my late summer and fall. :S
In other news, I'm looking at various canopy fabric options for our deck and can't decide. I may have to go see them in person.
I'm being drawn to the first one.
First one is least likely to get old...classic is not quite the word I'm looking for, but basic is certainly not the word, either. Understated, perhaps? I'm a fan. But all 3 are nice.
ETA: I see that I'm the only one.
In the larger pic you provided, I am now a huge fan of #3.
1. What did we do without the Internet/Google? Last night I needed tomato sauce for a recipe, but didn't have any. Within two seconds Bing told me I could add water to tomato paste and mix to get tomato sauce. (1 to 1 ratio)
2. Has anyone discovered a way to not tear up when cutting onions? I swear, I'm going to get those onion googles. My fade is a wet mess, by the time I'm done cutting them.
Put the cutting board in the sink and cut them under a slowly running faucet. Seems to work
Jerkface post to Bitchface's Facebook: eonli.ne/1Hzb3DH (photo of Caitlyn Jenner from Espys last night) "Caitlyn Jenner is breathtaking in glamorous white dress..."
Jerkface posts this pic in comments: and says, "Not so fast Caitlyn."
Followed by this one:
And this one:
Bitchface replies: Haha! There is nothing stunning about shim. The face looks weird. Too much surgery and Botox. Disgusting!
She regularly calls Caitlyn Jenner "shim" and makes such comments. Ugh.
1. What did we do without the Internet/Google? Last night I needed tomato sauce for a recipe, but didn't have any. Within two seconds Bing told me I could add water to tomato paste and mix to get tomato sauce. (1 to 1 ratio)
2. Has anyone discovered a way to not tear up when cutting onions? I swear, I'm going to get those onion googles. My fade is a wet mess, by the time I'm done cutting them.
Put the cutting board in the sink and cut them under a slowly running faucet. Seems to work
1. What did we do without the Internet/Google? Last night I needed tomato sauce for a recipe, but didn't have any. Within two seconds Bing told me I could add water to tomato paste and mix to get tomato sauce. (1 to 1 ratio)
2. Has anyone discovered a way to not tear up when cutting onions? I swear, I'm going to get those onion googles. My fade is a wet mess, by the time I'm done cutting them.
Put the onion in the freezer for five minutes. They don't get weird by being stored incorrectly, and you'll never cry cutting them again.
I had a coworker who had no idea what BCC was. She sent one email and copied multiple patients. We had oodles of fun cleaning up after that HIPAA violation.
I started watching The Walking Dead finally. I'm up to season 3. I still have a lot to go. Pretty sure that binge watching TWD is not the best idea, but I'm hooked and I want to catch up to where the rest of the world is on it.
Post by secretlyevil on Jul 16, 2015 17:18:54 GMT -5
I am a hard person to please, I am very aware of this. However, co-irker is fucking awful. I hope she never comes back from her vacation. As in, I hope she decides to stay there.
Wh "Oh, this is the L&L?" "I thought there was food provided."
I was so confused. L&L is a Hawaiian fast food chain.
Today was interesting in addition to the awkward I wrote about in the surrogacy thread. The next lesson was severing people. The expected (as in, we were corrected to say) answers were things like
Asians have yellow skin and round faces. At least we didn't have to say they have slant eyes?
Sushi has a long red face and prominent nose and kinky hair (these are all apparently complimentary).
Mr sushi is fat (she asked what he weighed) has a square face, and gray hair. He has a few gray hairs and is super self conscious about it. And he's self conscious about his weight even though he is by no means fat.
I had a coworker who had no idea what BCC was. She sent one email and copied multiple patients. We had oodles of fun cleaning up after that HIPAA violation.
Yikes! I work at a health insurance company, that would be a huge fuck up.
So, I'm on a client conference call. And, for better or worse, behind me is a conference room. Some other folks from my area were in there for a meeting or whatever, but the door was open and they're talking and laughing loudly and I cannot hear what my client is saying.
So I put my phone on mute, turn around and say "Guys. I'm on a call here."
And the person in the doorway pulls a face that could either be interpreted as "Ooh, our bad." or "Damn, cranky bitch."
And then I said "Sorry."
WHY DID I SAY SORRY?!?? I was on a fucking client call and they were being loud and disruptive. I was TOTALLY within my right to say what I did and in the tone I used, which was not mean but definitely annoyed.
*slaps hand*
Don't feel too bad. I still provide a totally needless "sorry" almost daily.
I've been going back and trimming "just" out of my emails.