What are your thoughts on onions?

[Viking]

My thoughts on onions are tearjerkingly layered.

[Razgovory]

My dad puts onions in everything he cooks.

[celedhring]

I couldn't cook without onions. All my favorite dishes have them.

My bane though, is that I can't cut a single one without suffering a crying fit.

[PRC]

I hate pickles on burgers and almost everything else but like on their own.  I have discovered on sandwich where they work.  Toasted bagel with garlic butter, chicken breast and pickles.  It works.

[Ed Anger]

I can't stand caramelized onions. The smell makes me want to throw up.

[Caliga]

Not even the "We hate gays and are morons" sauce?

If you ever had Chik-Fil-A you'd cut them some slack on the hating gays thing.  Besides, I just assumed Truett Cathy met Mart once and that's why he feels the way he does.

[Caliga]

Anyway, the more annoying thing is not that they hate gays but that, also due to religious mania, they're closed on Sunday.  I can't tell you how many times I'm near a Chik-Fil-A at lunch or dinnertime and am like "Awesome, I can get some Chik-Fil-A" and then remember it's a Sunday:

[Ed Anger]

You'll live without a goddamned chicken sandwich on Sunday.

[Admiral Yi]

If you eat a chicken sammich on the Lord's day you will burn in a lake of fire for all eternity.

Instead go to KFC like God fearing black families do. 

[Caliga]

You'll live without a goddamned chicken sandwich on Sunday.

What did I tell you about angering me?  I'm not gonna tell you again, pilgrim.

[Ed Anger]

You'll live without a goddamned chicken sandwich on Sunday.

What did I tell you about angering me?  I'm not gonna tell you again, pilgrim.

MAH HAIR TRIGGER

[merithyn]

We usually buy pre-minced frozen onions from Kroger to avoid the whole tearing up thing, not to mention the tedium of cutting up onions.  In most dishes it doesn't make that much of a difference to not use fresh onion.

You have two solutions for this:
1) peel them as usual them, rince them heavily under water, then cut them.  It will avoid the worst
2) do the whole thing under water, peeling&cutting

None of this stuff works for me. Wearing contacts, burning a candle, chopping under water.... doesn't matter. I'm a mess whenever I'm messing with onions. Eyes stream, sinuses swell, eyes get puffy.....and my fingertips start burning.

[HVC]

Growing up onion was the base of almost every meal. Now in my own unless I'm making a meal for a bigger occasion I don't go through the hassle. I'm kind of indifferent to them. Good in a salad though.

[HVC]

Put them in the freezer for a bit (but don't let them freeze). Works for me

[Sheilbh]

I've starting adding diced celery to my diced onions a lot of the time.  It's subtle, but I think it livens it up a little.  And I'm a little more sparing with the onions, if they are just for background.  If they aren't for background, I've been trying to cook them less -- not always putting them in with the first ingredients -- to retain more of the raw flavor.

I loathe raw celery, finely diced and fried, or even blended and stirred into a stew, it's marvellous.

I love onions. Unless I'm cooking Chinese food, more or less everything I cook starts by frying onions on a low heat for half an hour

Also cheese and onion sandwiches

However you can go too far. A friend of mine's grandfather (a Vicar) used to have a raw onion sandwich every night before bed. This springs to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgHHhw_6g8