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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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
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.
As I say to the onion-haters, “They’re in almost all the food you enjoy: you just don’t know it.”
It really is just a texture thing for me. Hate onions, love onion powder.
Edit: or a homemade onion slurry is also fine
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
“deflaming”
Cooked onions. Only people who can’t cook serve them raw.
So… You? 🤷🏽♂️
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
In general, maybe so. But I love a burger with the fresh crunch of a slice of red onion
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. 👩🏼🍳