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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You don’t drink ketchup. You don’t eat salt. But if you try unsalted fries without ketchup you’ll understand what salt and ketchup are for.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  they don’t like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.

  I don’t think the distinction between “taste” and “flavour” 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 wouldn’t 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 it’s basically a very slightly pungent candy. For a French Onion Soup, you can cook them for up to 2 hours before they’re ready. A pot that’s 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. I’d make it more, it’s just that slicing up more than a kilogram of onions is a whole process. It’s so difficult it makes me cry every time I do it.

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  • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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)

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’ve used a mandoline to do it before. Frankly, that’s really the only way I’d do it these days. But, even then, it’s a lot of work and it’s hard on the eyeballs. Plus, mandolines are scary. I know what not to do when using one, but it’s like a fear of heights. Even if you know you’re doing it safely, it’s still nerve wracking. Maybe if I had a chain-mail glove I could do it without fear, but I don’t have one.

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      • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I found a plastic handle for the mandoline. If you mess up, the handle gets cut but your fingers survive unscathed.

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      • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I chop my onions by hand but I wear swimming googles and they help a lot.

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• Brekky@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pickled onions… yum!

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• DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For me, I dislike (and as a child, hated) the texture of onions. Onion as a flavour has always been fine, it was biting them that was the problem.

  Caramelize the onions a bit and blend half into a paste, ask which one tastes bad. If they answer that only the chunky onion is bad, teach them about texture preferences.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Eat it or starve.

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• nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They taste different when cooked.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Caramelize them properly and they go from weird sour but slightly spicy vegetables to straight up candy.

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