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merc@sh.itjust.works â¨4⊠â¨days⊠agothey donât like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.
I donât think the distinction between âtasteâ and âflavourâ is the right way to frame it. Raw onion on its own can be overwhelming. If you eat a hamburger with raw onion on it, the amount of raw onion per bite will be pretty small, and it will be one taste in a whole bunch of other tastes. Your kids probably wouldnât like eating pure salt, or pure pepper either. But, food with some salt tastes great.
Having said that, fried onions are a whole different game. After 5 minutes the onion loses a lot of its potency and gets a bit sweet. After 30 minutes itâs basically a very slightly pungent candy. For a French Onion Soup, you can cook them for up to 2 hours before theyâre ready. A pot thatâs full to the brim of raw onions reduces down to a thin layer at the bottom, and they taste more like gummy worms than onions at that point.
Onions raw to fully cooked for a french onion soup.
I love French Onion Soup, and occasionally make it. Iâd make it more, itâs just that slicing up more than a kilogram of onions is a whole process. Itâs so difficult it makes me cry every time I do it.
Eq0@literature.cafe â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
A second hand mandoline a game changer in that regard! Chopping/slicing/cutting evenly suddenly to a fraction of the time. Would drivel recommend (second hand because first hand are stupidly expensive if you rent good quality)
merc@sh.itjust.works â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
Yeah, Iâve used a mandoline to do it before. Frankly, thatâs really the only way Iâd do it these days. But, even then, itâs a lot of work and itâs hard on the eyeballs. Plus, mandolines are scary. I know what not to do when using one, but itâs like a fear of heights. Even if you know youâre doing it safely, itâs still nerve wracking. Maybe if I had a chain-mail glove I could do it without fear, but I donât have one.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
I chop my onions by hand but I wear swimming googles and they help a lot.
Eq0@literature.cafe â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
I found a plastic handle for the mandoline. If you mess up, the handle gets cut but your fingers survive unscathed.
merc@sh.itjust.works â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
Iâd be interested to see what that is. It seems like it would be hard to make that work because securely gripping the thing youâre chopping is an important part of using a mandoline.