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It's true though.
As I say to the onion-haters, "They're in almost all the food you enjoy: you just don't know it."
So is plastic, apparently, but nobody is insisting that if I would only eat it prepared differently that I would love it.
Disagree, one of the reasons I'm an onion hater is precisely because they're in flipping everything. Anything savoury is likely to have that pervasive thickness that chases any other flavour out.
You're not wrong. I love onions, but I will freely admit that they are a powerful flavor and they are basically in everything.
I will note that if you're in this camp, that if you soak your onions in water for a couple minutes after slicing they are significantly less pungent, and will allow you to taste the other stuff better without sacrificing the texture they add
“deflaming”
And, if you instead soak them in a thinned, high-fat dairy of your choice (ie. buttermilk, diluted crème fraîche, etc.), the onions' allinases are even more delicate and allow for the subtle notes of your chosen cultivar to be enjoyed in their place. FWIW, this is a key step in fried onion rings.
I'm curious about how far your onion dislike goes. For example, I recently cooked lohiketto, a Finnish salmon soup. It feels like a rare meal that doesn't use onions (it's basically leek, carrot, potatoes, cream, salmon and dill), but the leek sort of fills the role that onions usually would, albeit more delicately.
I don't mind onions when they're used as a real ingredient. French onion soup, stir-fry, onion rings, all good. Onions also make decent filler in soup and curry, but I think the only soup I've had without onion is cheese & broccoli. Every ground meat I've seen uses onions as filler, so every burger, nearly every taco, most sausages, every lasagna, every spring roll, all have that onion taste.
If leeks were used like this, I'd probably hate them too.
TIL: In Finland, leeks are like onions.
In Sweden we call them purjolök (lök means onion)
Y'all must have some crazy strong-flavored marsh weed. The common leeks in the US (store bought or homegrown) tend to be milder than late-season scallions with a fibrous structure akin to artichoke leaves. That's genuinely interesting!
It really is just a texture thing for me. Hate onions, love onion powder.
Edit: or a homemade onion slurry is also fine
I didn't even know "onion-haters" exist
Cooked onions. Only people who can't cook serve them raw.
In general, maybe so. But I love a burger with the fresh crunch of a slice of red onion
There are a number of uses for raw or very lightly cooked onion. In my experience people with rigid rules around how ingredients can be used or prepared often can't cook well
I think that applies in life more generally tbh. People who tend toward extremes don't handle nuance very well. Most of life is nuance
Nah a good raw red onion is exactly what some salsas and guacs want. Ooh and the occasional salad that could use a bit of bite. And of course sandwiches.
Salad isn't generally "cooking", TBF. Hell, it's one of the reasons why garde manger is the next rung up from commis/chaos goblin. 👩🏼🍳
So... You? 🤷🏽♂️
The more you cut, the more you break cell walls, and the more pungent the onion becomes.
Finally. ty.
Huge stretch here, but did you watch the ultimate onion guide on YouTube?
Maybe? I've watched a lot of YouTube videos. I spent several years working in a kitchen, which is where that knowledge comes from.
The finer you cut, the less you bite, which would also break cell walls, maybe more over a sharp knife?
Kidding kinda
Pungency is volatile. The first cuts either need to happen right before as garnish, or go into something before all the good stuff evaporates.
If you keep your knife properly sharp, you'll do better in pretty much every cooking project.
A dull knife crushes more than it cuts, squeezing out the allinases and misting the air with them.
Yup. The only real exception is trimming connective tissue from meat. A slightly dull knife can perfectly peel it away without wasting much meat, a nice sharp knife will cut straight through it and make way more work for yourself
Um... No. Don't blame your tools. Improve your technique. A knife is only as sharp as the mind wielding it. 👩🏼🍳
I've trimmed literally tons of meat. You don't know what you're talking about, slightly dull is better.
Uh hunh. 30+ years in culinary across several countries and dozens of cultures, and you're the expert. Oh, sweetie.
Uh huh. How much meat have you trimmed? Tons? Slightly dull is sharp enough to separate meat from silverskin, but not chop into the meat or silverskin. It's faster, more efficient, less wasteful. If you're using a sharp knife, you're either not being thorough, you're being wasteful, or you're taking longer than you need to. Full stop. A slightly dull blade is the technique.
I'm so sorry you're this adamantly idiotic. Your dull knives are compensating for your willful imprecision, but it's your pompous refusal to learn proper technique that's truly hamstringing you. I don't have the time to sort through your bullshit if you won't, either. Enjoy your fingers while they're still attached, cupcake — and stay the fuck outta my kitchen.
Uh, yeah, obviously.
I'd bet my car I can trim down a pork loin faster than you, with less waste, and less bullshit left on the meat. But who knows, maybe my "slightly dull" is the same as your "sharp", and this is all a big misunderstanding.
Especially when cooked
Especially after you factor in cooking. How fast. How hot. What method.