10 ways to cut onions without crying

Listed in order of effectiveness from "Big boys don't cry" to "Might as well rub the damned onion in your eye".

1. Get someone else to do it

2. Wear onion goggles.

3. Use a grid chopper/ food processor

4. Freeze the onion first (makes it harder to chop though!)

5. Close your eyes (and lose your fingers)

6. Leave the root on the onion

7. Chop beneath an open window

8. Run the onion under water first

9. Put any of the following in your mouth: A match, a piece of bread, a teaspoon, half a lemon

10. Put the brown onion skin on your head

And for the sake of an alternative ending- 10. Man up.