Related: Daniel Gritzer of Serious Eats explored different ways to mince garlic, finding that some methods significantly increased garlic's pungency/strength (and also that long cooking methods negate much of this difference)
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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
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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!
I didn't even know "onion-haters" exist
It really is just a texture thing for me. Hate onions, love onion powder.
Edit: or a homemade onion slurry is also fine
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The more you cut, the more you break cell walls, and the more pungent the onion becomes.
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Especially when cooked
Especially after you factor in cooking. How fast. How hot. What method.
What’s wrong babe? You haven’t even touched your onion plate
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None of those are "finely sliced rings", though...
Yeah every single cut here will fill your mouth with red onion gas like a WW1 trench fight. The bottom right is possibly acceptable depending on what it's going in. Top left could work in some salsas. Rest are just "chunks of onion."
Some people love it, but if you want to turn a first-timer away from fresh red onions for life, give them large ass chunks that overwhelm the rest of the dish.
Then OP must die.
Sorry, OP, that’s the way the cookie crumbles. RIP.
It's about the texture, the consistency and how much onion you get with your bite.
Exactly. Putting rings of onion in, say, a pot of chili would make it have a weird texture, as would dicing them finely for a French onion soup.
This makes me want to cry
Put your head in the freezer
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yeah?
is this actually news to anyone?
"I ALREADY KNEW THIS! HEY EVERYONE! DID YOU KNOW I ALREADY KNEW THIS?!?"
yes.
I had a roommate that was obsessed with replicating the McDonald's dollar menu hamburger. He said the finely chopped onions made all the difference.
They absolutely do. He is correct.
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it's like different shapes of pasta all over again
I want to argue you, but I can't.
I'm not saying that leeks are onions (though they are alliums, i.e. of the same family). To me, whilst they do taste quite different to onions, there is still a flavour that I would describe as onion-y
Where's the cheese and apple?
For the 3 on the right side, it matters quite a bit whether you slice in direction from root to stem or cross, root to stem is much better.
...one o'clock and three o'clock taste pretty similar and eight o'clock and ten o'clock are close-enough for most uses...
Dear community: do we downvote to disagree here? Because OP is wrong bite me…
I'd argue that they all taste like licking a 9v battery.
Maybe I should start licking batteries, then. I had no idea they tasted so delicious.
that may be a sign you’re allergic
this well describes a taste I got when eating shrimp which otherwise had no reaction before I had a full blown puff your face up and trouble breathing from eating a different shellfish.
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