- Can we cut an onion without crying?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
- Good mythical morning.
- When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade
but when life gives you onions,
you make the ugly Kim Kardashian cry face.
- Like that? Like that?
But there has to be a better way.
So today we're gonna challenge ourselves
to cut an onion without crying.
Let's get weird with it. Cutting an onion.
- Okay to get started,
we're gonna have a little bit of a control group.
We're just gonna cut some onions
to show that they make us cry.
- I don't think that an onion's gonna make me cry.
- Have you ever cut an onion?
- I rarely cut an onion.
But I should- - Are we about
to witness the first time you've ever cut an onion?
- No, I'll slice a little bit of an onion.
I'll just slice a little bit. - And dice it for my-
- Yeah, take your glasses off, definitely.
Maybe that's why you haven't cried.
- For my sandwich or something.
But, I'm not really good at using knives.
- Don't don't don't don't cut your-
- My face or my finger.
- And get-- Just get your face over it.
- Like this?
- I mean, yeah, I guess.
(cutting board snipping)
- Should I take the skin off?
- I would just cut some slices
and then I'm gonna just take these
and just start dicing them.
- I'm not crying yet
but I am afraid that I'm gonna cut my hand.
I'm not, I'm not really good at cutting things.
(cutting board snipping)
(Drew laughs)
- What?
- What's happening over there?
- Like you know how to cut an onion, Drew?
- [Drew] I don't.
(cutting board snipping)
- I'm gonna move this down
because this is in my elbow space.
(cutting board snipping)
- Starting.
(cutting board snipping)
- Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
(cutting board snipping)
- Okay.
- You crying?
- Oh baby.
- Is it flowing?
- My left eye is on fire.
(cutting board snipping)
You're not getting anything? No irritation at all?
- No, man. I'm telling you.
My nose is burning.
- The eyes are not burning?
because when we did the make yourself cry thing before,
we had done so many things that before we got to this point,
that it was basically impossible
to make ourselves cry anymore.
I'm gonna cut another fresh one.
- I'm gonna cut another fresh one too.
Uh uh, starting to burn.
- I mean, you might have a little bit of a resistance to it
but I just didn't think anybody was immune to it.
Because it's an irritant, it's not like a asparagus thing.
I mean, I got it real bad in my left eye.
I don't think I'm gonna like start crying like a baby.
- It doesn't make you emotional.
It just makes your eyes water.
- But I'm gonna go for it. I'm really gonna just...
(cutting board snipping)
And I'm gonna get right down in it.
(cutting board snipping)
- Oh.
- Oh, it's happening. Oh wow.
Oh me. Wow.
- I won't cry. I won't cry with an onion.
- This is crazy, man.
- Let me, let me see. Yeah, you're crying.
- It's not flowing yet. I wanna make it flow.
- My left eye really, really, really gets it.
Why my left eye so sensitive? Do I have a fake right eye
and you haven't told me until now?
- Yeah. You got a wooden right eye.
I never told you.
- You got a full tear. Full tear.
- Huh? Can you get a close up of it?
(Drew laughs)
- What do I have?
- You got moist eyes, but you don't have any tears.
- Yeah, I got tears coming straight out to the bottom.
- Of your eye?
- Look at the left eye. That's tear, man.
- There's nothing flowing.
- When I get really emotional, this is what happens.
Just a little bit.
(Drew laughs)
All I can say is I, my eyes are very irritated.
- Okay. So we've established-
- Yes, we are sensitive to the onion.
- We are susceptible and now let's get weird with it.
(gentle music)
Okay? We've recovered.
- Now the reason that onions make us cry and make you cry is
because when you cut into them, you break the onion cells.
There's a pretty complex chemical reaction that takes place.
That leads to sulfuric compounds being released
into the air.
And then that interacts with your eyes,
activates your tears, it's an irritant.
- Now, with this weird technique,
which we're told is legitimate, both of these, right?
You're gonna put a match, an unlit match.
- I'm not gonna light it.
- I'm not gonna light it either.
- This part of my mouth? - No, no, no.
Leave the green part out. - Okay.
- Because, what the head of the match is supposed
to do is absorb some of the sulfuric compounds
that are wafting up towards your eyeballs.
They'll get sucked towards that. Now-
- That seems suspect. That seems a little sus.
- Well, this sends even more--
Yeah. I mean it would at least seem
like more of a complete blockage than what you've got.
- It's also more of a complete meal though.
- Well, you can eat that.
- I envy you right now. I love a piece of white bread.
I don't-- My mama, my mama-- (chuckles)
- I think you mean your wife.
- My mama used to give me that.
My wife does not give me that.
- Does not allow you to have it.
- I'm allowed to have that white bread.
All right. So, let's begin.
- Okay. So this same process, just every day onion cutters.
Here we are working at the In-N-Out Burger.
I'm so afraid you're gonna cut yourself
because your technique is...
You should do your fingers like this.
So you don't cut--
So if you hit your fingernail, if you hit anything.
- I look smart with some bread hanging
out of my mouth, don't I?
- We're all very worried about you right now.
- I'm gonna be okay, man.
- Okay. I'm just doing the same thing.
Not, I'm just being normal about this.
Just cutting onions like a man does.
- I'm just letting bread hang out of my mouth,
like a man does.
I'm a bread hanging mouth man.
- That's like a Johnny Cash song.
(both singing)
♪ I'm a bread hanging mouth man ♪
(Rhett singing)
♪ Coming down the line ♪
(Link singing)
♪ Buy a ticket ♪
(Rhett singing)
♪ For my train ♪
♪ Last time I hung bread from my mouth ♪
♪ I killed a man in broad daylight ♪
(both laughing)
(cutting board snipping)
- Oh okay. I can feel a little irritation in the eyes.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I feel like it's pretty comparable, actually.
How you were doing over there, bread hanging man?
- Tastes great. Oh yeah, was there some other--
- Oh, you can't have the glasses on.
It's gotta be an even test, man.
- Oh that's right. Sorry about that.
- What's wrong with you?
- I can't see whether without them.
- Who?
- I'm immediately getting a bit-
- Put a bread back in.
- Oh.
- Stick it out, bread hanging man.
You're not bread eating man. You're a bread hanging man.
- I'm a bread hanging man.
- Okay. So I'm definitely get--
But it's not making me--
It's not stinging as bad, but I'm gonna go in closer.
- Mm, I'm getting a lot of stinging.
- There's no way this is catching all of it.
It's just a little match head.
(cutting board snipping)
It doesn't hurt as bad though.
- Not working at all.
- I think there's a--
I would say there is a marginal effect with the match.
I'm just gonna go as far as to say a marginal effect.
- I mean like, I'm on the verge of
like just totally boohoo in here.
If you need to pass gas right now, just let me know.
Because I could also take care of that with a match.
- I could. Do you want me to? - We'll time it.
- I don't wanna do that. - Three, two.
- That's not-- - One.
- That's not internet worthy.
This is a classy internet show.
- I just gave you a gentleman's offer to fart.
(both laughing)
- I felt like something else could have happened.
- Oh, if you tried to force a fart?
- Yeah. Season finale would come early this year.
(Rhett laughs)
- Okay. like I said- - Not working
that well for me, but it tastes great.
- You know what?
Immediately having done the match,
my eyes are significantly more irritated
and I'm not making this up.
- Any excuse to eat white bread is a good idea for me
but I don't know if it help that much.
- Give me a piece of that.
(Link chewing)
(Drew laughs)
- Good, isn't it?
- Yeah.
(gentle music)
- Now, one simple way
to not have an onion irritate your eyes
when you're cutting it, is just to move away from it.
I'm a pretty tall guy so I've got a little bit of reach.
So let me--
Just put an onion up here and I'll demonstrate this.
- Okay.
- I had to tape the knife to my hand
because when I reach along- - Just for safety.
- And sometimes I'm not as quite
as coordinated when I'm really reaching.
- Now, I never noticed your
right forearm being slightly longer than your left forearm.
- Well, it's really just the right arm.
- Oh, it's a whole thing, yeah.
- Have you ever seen me extend both arms at the same time?
- No, I haven't.
- It's really one of those things that
if I'm extending both of them, it's pretty obvious.
- Yeah. It's definitely longer.
- Anyway, put the onion down there
and I'll cut it and you know what?
I probably won't cry
because of the distance because of the reach.
Okay. You know, so it's typically--
I just kind of get it lined up
and I just...
- Oh.
(crew laughing)
- That's what I do right there.
You know, it's... Put one onion...
- Oh oh. - Sometimes you hit a knot.
- Here, I'll hold it for you. - Okay.
- Just kidding. (chuckles)
(Drew laughs)
- Line it up and just... Just like that. (crew laughing)
Sometimes it's a little...
The one thing I will confirm, as I slice these onions,
is that I'm not feeling anything at all.
No irritation at all.
- How's your hand feel?
- It's a little stiff today.
- It's got some rigamortis in it.
Yeah. Did you know that?
- [Rhett] That feels good.
Do that. You're a little hand masseur, huh?
- Yeah. Little finger massage.
(Rhett laughs) - All right. There you go.
Maybe you could...
- Yeah. Yeah.
You know what?
And one of the things I can do with my right arm,
that's a little bit longer than my left arm,
is I work up a...
(cutting board snipping) I really work up a lot of speed
because of the leverage, you know?
Could you imagine if both of arms were this long?
- I don't want to. - Would I be capable of?
- So, this is a viable technique for everyone.
- Yeah.
- Just distance yourself. And you're not crying, right?
- Not crying at all. Just- - All right.
Just use your natural reach.
(gentle music)
Okay, so the dollar, the blade that you're using,
the more damage is done to the onion,
which means that there's more
of the sulfur compound release.
So the sharper the blades
the less irritation to your eyes.
So, Link just stepped out to give some super sharp blades.
And now he's back.
(dramatic music)
Wow. Those are incredibly sharp, Link.
I would say even glorious.
- Yes, a friend of the show, John Heater,
allowed me to wear his blades of glory costume.
This is actually it, man. From the movie.
- Not a joke, legitimately.
- Yeah, Will Ferrell has his matching costume
but he wouldn't let you borrow it.
- Right. Yeah.
So I'm just gonna stay down here and place onions.
- These are sharp.
- Yeah.
- We supplied these.
- You ready to do some damage?
- Oh yeah.
(onion snipping)
Oh yeah.
- Oho.
- Look at that.
(onion snipping)
(Link's shoes clicking)
- Are you okay?
(Link's shoes clicking)
- Look, there's another one.
- Oh. Interesting, oh.
(Link's shoes clicking)
- Give me a trio.
- You crying?
- Nope. I'm actually smiling. - [Rhett] I am a little boy.
- Look at this. (chuckles)
- See what you can do with this one.
- Are you crying since you're at crotch level
with this costume?
- Yeah. Yeah.
(crew laughing)
But I don't think it has anything to do with the onion.
(everybody laughing)
(Links shoes clicking)
- Oh look, that was trying to get away.
They all got away.
- Yeah. You didn't actually-- Let's do this.
Give me a fresh one. Let me give you a fresh one.
Don't jump on this one,
but one right here and then one right here
and I want you to jump in the air
and I want you to cut both of them at the same time.
- That'll be easy.
(Link's shoes clicking)
- Yeah. Look at that. It's really...
(Links shoes clicking)
It's really getting me like worse than ever.
This is like the worst that it's been.
I'm like actually crying, but for you, it's fine, right?
- Oh yeah. I'm good.
- I don't know if those blades are quite sharp enough, Link
but they look incredible.
Oh, it hurt so bad.
- Oh yeah.
(gentle music)
- Now one common technique is to use a fan
to waft away the fumes while you're chopping an onion.
But we thought why not just use the fan to chop the onion?
Here's the fan.
- And here are the onions
- Hit it.
- All right. Onion, sir.
- Oh, oh yeah. What are these for?
- Yeah. Yeah. You wanna use the goggles today?
- Yeah, let's do it.
- Here we go.
(dramatic music)
There you go. I got flooded in the face.
Two at a time, shall we?
(dramatic music)
- Yeah.
(dramatic music)
- Red onion in the hole.
(dramatic music)
Yeah. Here we go.
(dramatic music)
That's not fun enough. How about, funions?
(dramatic music)
- [Link] Funion time. Woo.
- Did it cut any of them?
- I'm gonna go get these onions, bring them back.
Just for...
- [Rhett] Fan off.
- [Drew] Okay, yeah.
- Oh, there is an unbelievably good looking mixture
of onions down in here.
- Onions and funions.
- Onions and fun onions mixed.
- Let me grab one.
Don't cut that fan back on.
- Oh, that's good.
- Oh, can I have one? I'm not reaching in that fan.
Hmm. That's a dicey good time.
- We've done good.
Well, we did this to a lot of onions.
- Every little bit counts, right?
- Yeah. You gotta start somewhere
- Like a boat.
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- Weird onion snacks.
Speaking of onion, do you...
There's an onion fog in here.
- It is. It is.
- It's really getting to me. Slowly, morph into dogs.
- Does this smell like onion in here to you?
Oh, oh onion. I can't like to smell onion.
(Rhett huffing)
(Link barking)
(both barking)
- Is this something I'm especially excited about?
- [Drew] You push it away.
- Danielle made what I think is gonna be good.
Sour cream and onion.
- Ooh. Really?
- Ice cream.
- Yeah. Amazing.
So whole.