Wearing goggles while chopping 'stingy' onions is soon set to be a thing of the past as Waitrose are set to stock a variety of the vegetable that doesn't make you cry.
The new type of sweet onion stocked by the supermarket promises to keep shoppers dry-eyed as they prepare meals.
Sold as the first tearless onions, the Sunions have a mild flavour that also makes them a good option for salads, claims Waitrose.
However, the tearless onion comes at a cost as the new variety are grown in Spain and will retail at £1.50 for a three-pack when they go on sale next Tuesday - so a pricy alternative to your standard loose onions in the vegetable aisle.
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Paul Bidwell, Onion Buyer at Waitrose told the Daily Mail: 'We understand how a-peeling tearless onions are to our customers which is why we're delighted to launch Sunions in selected stores and via Waitrose.com from 18th January."
Although the onions may not make you well up, some reviews have criticised the tear-free variety.
A Washington Post review confirmed that they did not cause tears but said the onions were “flavourless”.
The Sunion website reads: "Sunions are currently grown only in Nevada and Washington.
"Their tearless quality and incredible flavour profile that is consistently sweet, mild and crunchy is all thanks to a tightly-controlled brand promise that Sunions must be certified to be both tearless and sweet before shipping to grocery stores."
