Far too often, home cooks and professional chefs alike find themselves struggling to peel and slice onions efficiently.

Sometimes referred to as button onions or creamer onions, pearl onions are small, bright white onions with a circular shape. Most pearl onions are no larger than half an inch in diameter. Pearl onions ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. You can buy pearl onions in several forms: raw ...