How does /ck/ feel about onions?
God's gift to man
>>7839138
Red onions are great. Love them pickled, too.
Couldn't cook without them.
An essential ingredient.
Shallots are great too.
a 10/10 ingredient
>>7839228
Agreed. Only discovered shallots about 5 years ago when I started cooking for myself. They blend into sauces so well.
>>7839138
Delicious and absolutely essential to pretty much all cooking.
>>7839138
Used to hate them, now I love them to a point. They have to be properly cooked though.
>>7839146
Isn't that wine?
One of the best ingredients there is, proof of which is its use in almost every culture's cuisine.
Great source of flavor.
Also an effective repellent against any picky eaters.
I hated them and tomatoes as a child. Now I cannot go a day without using em in something.
>>7839138
Essential.
>>7839215
>pickled
eh
>>7839138
Belongs in absolutely nothing besides salad/pico de gallo raw.
Food ruining addition raw but godly cooked
>>7839138
Hate white onion, like the others.
They are good. They suck if overcooked though (unless you caramelize them or something)
>>7839260
I'm a picky eater and I put onions in everything.
Why are they so expensive now? Used to get 10lbs for $2CAD, now charging at least $1/lb. Fuck.
>>7839138
too lazy. switched to using freeze dried & powder unless i want to make something special.
>>7839138
I used to eat them roasted every day, now I do only once in a while
I've never cooked a sweet onion before. What are they good with?
what's the difference between yellow and red onions? I
>>7839138
I use them almost all the time, they're great with most dishes I make.
Raw, sweated, browned but still crisp, caramelized etc. are all awesome. I love every type of onion. One of the few honestly god tier ingredients. Lots of foods are complete shit without them. I wouldn't associate with a person that didn't like onions.
I know they're very important, but I avoid them because the smell makes me gag.
>>7839256
This. If you don't like onions, you simply don't like cuisine. At that point you really should just move to Soylent.
>>7840882
Yellow onions are yellow.
Red onions are red.
I'll let you work out what the deal is with white onions.
Onions + bell peppers is a god tier combination.
>>7841112
according to google red onions have a subtler taste and are best eaten raw and yellow onions are stronger and more suitable for roasting/frying.
>>7840800
Bacon and potatoes with some dijon my nigga
>>7840759
Your shitty currency mate.
>>7839138
I keep one tied to my belt
>>7839138
>>>/trash/
faggot
>>7841190
it's the style currently (at the time)
>>7841190
this
>>7839138
Onions are a meme ingredient.
>>7841403
fuck off
Couldn't do without them
>dice up large onion
>put it in skillet with salt and oil
>30 minutes later it's like 1/4th a cup of pure flavor
FUCKING MAGIC NIGGA
People who hate onions should be gassed.
>>7839138
Tastes so good I wanna cry.
>>7840759
Could be your currency, but it's a seasonal thing aswell.
I really dont have any feelings towards any vegetables. But I like onions. They complete my dishes.
I love onions and related bulbs like shallots
>>7839138
I used to hate them,now I can't live without them.
>>7839138
Motherfucking love onions.
Onions are a crutch for unskilled cooks
Love them, but can't chop them without being blinded. Knife is sharp, I've tried the freezer trick, onions are all fresh, still blinds me. I just can't do it.
>>7842795
t. picky eater manchild
>>7842994
I like onions. I'm saying shitty often cooks use them to make up for their incompetence
>>7843007
So you admit you don't know what the word crutch means
>>7843026
What the fuck are you talking about? A crutch means they use it prop themselves up, you know, like a crutch.
>>7839138
Even as a cooking peasant they are great. If I were to diet they would be my an even more key flavor in my diet.
Onions are up there as one of the best crops ever discovered
>>7843042
Ever seen a man with working legs use crutches? Of course not.
Ever seen a skilled cook use onions?
>>7840474
>Not liking pickled onions
Honestly
>>7843056
Yes all the time, it's a major ingredient in cooking
>>7840800
Salsa
>>7843064
Exactly.
A crutch only proves useful to people who lack something else. In the literal sense- legs. In your context- skill.
Since onions /are/ useful to people who do not lack skill, it is a not a crutch.
It's pretty simple anon
>>7843056
This is some retarded reasoning senpai. I've seen people play with crutches a lot.
>>7842956
this. literally cry everytiem
>>7843117
Have you tried chopping them next to a lit burner or candle?
>>7843117
contacts = immunity
i cut hundreds of pounds of this shit as a kitchen bitch and everyone is always impressed im not tearing up but im just fucking cheating
hands stinky like onion for days even with gloves though :(
>>7842956
Ha, I can lick them and smell them without crying
>>7843121
no, but honestly smoke makes my eyes water terribly too. i have v sensitive eyeballs i think
>>7843123
can't afford contacts lel, i do wear glasses tho which one might think would help. doesn't. i don't have an issue with my hands smelling like onions, but whenever i chop garlic i can't get the smell out for DAYS. it's pretty unappetizing
>>7842956
Wear glasses
Rinse them or even cut them under running water.
You need to think about how it actually works and mitigate it in that fashion. The onion is essentially filled with millions of little pockets of acid. When you cut into the onion it breaks open those pockets and the acid reacts with the air, becoming gas which rises and irritates your eyes. Wearing glasses protects your eyes to a degree, and rinsing the onions pushes the gas down and away.
>>7843146
Neither of those things should give off noteworthy amounts of smoke
>>7843169
dude i have to open a window when i burn incense. i'm pretty sure i'm just a baby
>>7843172
How do perfume sticks specifically designed to give off smoke fit into this discussion
>>7843146
you can order contacts online for like $20 if you have your prescription
>>7843162
I'm the first poster not the other guy who replied. I have glasses, doesn't help. I also can't wear contacts because reasons. I could do the burner trick (gas stove) or the running water, but how do you cut them under running water without the pieces washing everywhere? Your explanation does make sense but what to actually do about onion gas?
>>7843362
Dunno, it doesn't happen too often to me, but my mom always would cut onions under water though maybe just the initial halving/quartering because yeah all the pieces would wash away.
>>7839251
no that would be grapes you fucking 12 yr old.
>>7840474
how do you not like pickled onions, are you fucking 7?
>>7843721
I don't like pickled anything. Fucking cucumbers trying to trick me into eating them put me off of pickled things.
>>7839138
>How does /ck/ feel about onions?
Onions = God
>>7839138
Love 'em in cooking. Soups, baked dishes, fried dishes, everything. Caramelized onions are just about the best thing in the fucking world to put on something. The flavor, the texture... amazing.
That being said, for some goddamn reason I'm incapable of eating raw onions. No idea why, but the second they enter my mouth my gag reflex kicks in and I start to barf. It's pretty fucked up.
They're a delicious and an essential ingredient which makes me lol because they're like deadly poisonous to anything that's not human.
>>7841456
>People who hate onions should be gassed.
with raw white onions
just picked up a bag of vidalias
ate one like an apple
disliked them as kid, now I absolutely love them and use them in any dish i can.
The smell of sautéing onions is the reasons to live.
Raw , not good
Cooked fucking delicious
>>7844766
raw red onions are very good in salad and on burgers
i love raw onions i dont know what the fuk is wrong with me
>>7843813
>I don't like pickled anything.
How your digestion? I find that people who don't like pickled things tend to have poor digestion due to having shitty gut flora.
Got to have a string of Roscoffs hanging up in my kitchen or I'm not at home.
>>7844823
Pretty autistic
>>7844778
Nothing at all. When I realize that whatever I cooked is subpar, I just add some diced raw onion and MSG and wa la, it instantly becomes edible, flavorful, aromatic
>>7839138
Versatile and tasty, I couldn't go without them.
>>7842956
Just make sure your face is far enough away. Don't bend over and if you're short then cut them on a lower surface.
>>7843856
v's - this guy know onions.
>>7844767
slice of red on a burger, can't be too thick my opinion.
>>7839138
I could eat them like apples
Onions are literally casual filters of cooking.
>>7845497
no, no you want the meat flavor to shine through, but a thin slice of red onion really adds something
>Onions
>>7845843
pleb
>>7839260
You mean eaters with an effective sense of taste who would like for you to not be a shit assembler of meal
>>7842956
Use swimming goggles - you'll look retarded but it does the trick
>>7839138
its a meme fruit
>>7839138
The base aromatic of pretty much every cuisine in the world. People that claim not to like onions are not to be trusted and probably weren't raised properly.
This place sure does have a lot of onion shills
Best chives
>>7839138
> First time cooking for myself, maybe 10
> Dig out George Foreman grill
> Grab bread, mayonnaise, american cheese block and white onion
> Slather mayo on bread
> Don't know how to onion, cut off two 1" slices of raw white onion
> One piece of onion on each slice of bread
> Roughly cut 1" of cheese off block and put it i n the middle
> Stick the whole thing in the foreman grill
> Press down and start the cooking
> End up with burned buns with crusty burned mayo around the edges, a block of mostly solid cheese and raw onion
> Eat the whole thing while crying for multiple reasons
>>7839138
The tastiest of all tasties.
>>7842795
someone has sensitive eyes
>>7839138
yes.
>>7843508
This, it just werks
>>7839138
love them but they hurt my eyes so much
>>7849684
Just close your eyes
>>7839138
I like em
Adds a lot to most dishes
>>7840888
I don't know why people are so afraid to brown onions when it adds so much flavor. Merely sweated onion is useless, god forbid you add it raw.
