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Some of the suggestions in the replies are kind of baffling to me in the face of an effectively foolproof, dirt-cheap, comfortable, and trivial solution with basically no downsides. Like you do you, but "yeah, just hold water in your mouth for the indeterminate amount of time you spend cutting up onions" is so ridiculous compared to just saying "here, try some basic PPE".
It's hard to imagine even doing that routinely without thinking "surely there's a better way??" and stumbling upon this.
you mean sharpening your knife, opening a window or turning on the vent fan?
Helps, and you should be doing it anyway; not 100% effective, as I always keep my knife sharp. I could cut more slowly too (empirically shown to help), but why would I? I'm not at all recommending against knife-sharpening, because regardless of onions, a dull knife is a safety hazard.
I've never lived in a house where the window is less than 5 meters from any kitchen countertop. Also heavily dependent on the weather (pollen count, haze, storm, obnoxiously high wind or too calm to help, way too cold or way too hot, etc.)
Yeah, I'll just move my cutting board underneath my stove's vent fan like a low-rent fume hood instead of just slapping on some unobtrusive goggles from the drawer. You can, but this is a bootleg solution I'd use at a friend's house, not when I cut up onions once a week.
The fact that you listed "opening a window" as "comfortable" (*gestures broadly at the weather*), "dirt-cheap" (*gestures broadly at heating and cooling costs*), and "trivial" (not if you don't have one; look at typical apartment layouts if you think this is uncommon) is what I'm getting at: people have suboptimal, often nongeneralizable half-solutions to this easily solved problem and then try to "or you could just" when someone suggests basic PPE.
I'm not baffled people have solutions that work well enough for them; I am baffled at suggesting them over the clearly optimal solution for the most general audience. (Disclaiming as "general audience" because contacts seem to have it beat when you already wear them; couldn't say for sure.)