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By "them" we hope you're referring to the onions, rather than your hands. A Yahoo! Search on "onions+odor+removal" resulted in several helpful suggestions. We also consulted the Yahoo! Cooking Category for some kitchen tips. The low-fat cooking site Lifewise suggests that you run your hands under water, rub them with baking soda, and then rinse them. The Indian cooking resource TeluguToranam proposes rinsing your hands with vinegar before and after cutting onions. Bitsy Kitchen also recommends
rubbing your knife and cutting board with a lemon wedge to remove the odor from your utensils. Surprisingly (at least to us), several kitchen advice sites suggest rinsing your hands with cold water while you touch stainless steel. You can grab onto a spoon, a pan, even your kitchen sink -- as long as it's made of stainless steel. It apparently works. Several enterprising cookware companies actually sell soap-bar-sized chunks of stainless steel as odor-removing devices. What's the scientific explanation? We couldn't find any definite answers, but it probably involves sulfur compounds
binding to the steel.
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