/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I was dicing onions for a stew. I make big batches of food at a time, and thus I chop a lot of onions. I was dicing the onions and half listening to music when I began to wonder how much time in my life I spent cutting onions in some way.
I cook most days, most of these meals will involve onions at some point. I use 100s of onions in a given year. How much time have I spent over a cutting board with my knife slicing onions.
Then I started to think about how I'm just a home chef. I'm not even fancy, I just like cooking. How much time does an actual professional cook spend chopping onions? I have to imagine that some intro level chef is spending 8 hours a day chopping onions someone in France. My god, what a life that is. So much time spent just preparing food.
But then, I thought about how sometimes I get irritated about having to chop onions, but in the moment of my onion dealings I don't actually mind it. My mind is focused on the task and I just execute. Execute. Execut.
And that made me think about the fun of food preparation. When I'm not cooking, sometimes I have to kind of force myself to start cooking, but once I'm going my mind is focused, and I just sort of deal with what's in front of me. After the fact, I look back and feel like it took awhile. Before the fact, I don't necessarily want to cook. In the moment though, it's rarely bad. I enjoy it.

Cooking is fun. I love onions. Pic unrelated.

*take forever to peel*
>I don’t want to throw away the outer most layer

are onions spicy or am i legitimately autistic.

>>13498962
Heh. Nothing personal.

I just revealed to my friends that I hate onions and do not like them in my food. Now they are making fun of me and calling me names. Telling me onions are in everything, asking how I can live like this.
Is there anything I can say in response to get them to understand my hatred of onions? They are just absolutely disgusting and add a terrible flavor to any dish cooked in them.
I have no problem with asking for no onions on my dish, and I usually do, but sometimes they leave those gross slimy slivers on. Taking off the onions leaves the shit stain all over the rest of the food and sadly I've had to throw out entire dishes.

I bought a bag of onions like 2 week ago and they're molding. Usually they last like a month or two. Is there anything I could've done wrong that i molded so quickly?