bbq: When im roasting a bbq i keep crying like an onion how can i prevent it?|||its due to the smoke caused by the fire. the smoke particles get in your eyes, and the tears are your bodies way of cleaning it out. try putting some eyedrops in your eyes before you bbq... that may help. or wear some sunglasses which will reduce the amount of smoke getting in your eyes. other than that, just stay out of the smoke...|||If you are referring to slow roasting in the oven, it might be because you have the heat up too high, and you have run out of liquid in the pan, your meat is cooking too quickly. Add more water to your pan till its about 1/4 the way up the meat. Or it could be the spices you have on it, sometimes when the spices just sit on the meat they have a tendency to burn. Baste the meat with the pan drippings and that should keep the spices from burning. If you are referring to cooking it in a smoker, its because the smoke is getting in your eyes. Considering that you are smoking it correctly, you might have too much smoking chips on your heat source. Indirect heat is the best way to smoke meat. krystan|||its the smoke that comes off of it it gets in your eyes and that's how your body cleans your eyes... prevention- you can were glasses or just look away|||first answer is correct,but what i do is, i take a fan and just fant the smoke.*lol* sometimes i wear shades, or before barbequing, i apply eye-drops, even after. just wear shades. LOL, you'll look stylish and funky and you get good bbq. ;]