/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18679888
What shithole do you live in that you don't have multiple varieties of onions to choose from? Btw, if you've never had Vidalia onions in season I legitimately feel sad for you.

small onions are such a fucking bitch to clean and cut, I'd rather have one xboxhueg onion even if the taste isn't the same
it's all getting fried anyway

>>18679904
>Btw, if you've never had Vidalia onions in season I legitimately feel sad for you.
based

>>18679904
Vidalia are only good for onion rings or in salads, IMO.

>>18679909
How? It's the exact same process as a larger one. I can understand someone with tiny hands disliking larger onions for being unwieldy to handle for them but the opposite isn't true, izzit?
I find that with most foods, the larger it is, the less likely it'd be as tasty as a smaller version. While I've not noticed this that much with onion (it's still there but not to bad), it's absolutely true with garlic. Bought some huge ass heads of garlic, practically the size of an onion and none of their cloves had any flavour at all. : (

Damn, that's a big onyo!

>>18679955
>How? It's the exact same process as a larger one.
I can remove the skin on a bigger onion in one smooth motion, small onion skins get stuck under my fingernails and burn me fucking fingers because I do them one by one
also my knife isn't that sharp but I understand that onions are not to blame for this
still annoying as fuck
I'd rather put more onion to make up for the diluted taste of big ones than clean 25 garlic sized onions that are only good for eating whole

>>18679904
For me, it's walla walla sweets from Washington
Seattle is a shithole but fuck do I miss Paseo sandwiches

>>18679904
A shithole where I don't gotta lock up my bicycle

>>18679955
When PROPERLY caramelized, Vidalia french onion soup is an order of magnitude better than with any other variety.

>>18680023
Fair enough.
I cut them in half and pull the skin off in two pieces (unless it's one of those sneaky bitch onions with a second goddamn skin under the first one; fuck those onions).
Also, if it's an even remotely decent knife, by the way, take it to a resto supply store and have them sharpen and possibly hone it for you. That's if you're concerned about trying to sharpen it yourself, that is. You needn't be, but I get it if you are. G'luck wiff yer onions, bruv.

>>18680046
This. After you've had Vidalia French onion soup with a good gruyure you will never consider another onion variety again.

>>18680046
Yeah, nah. Hard disagree. I find them less sweet and with a rather odd aftertaste I can't quite identify when caramelised, but if you like'em that way, keep at it. You do you, boo.
Made the mistake of trying to use 6lbs of them to make genovese sauce. Wound up turning it into onion jam instead, which I canned and used on roast beef or turkey sandwiches instead. Took, like, two years to work through it all.

>>18680069
>I find them less sweet
Are you sure you're eating vidalias then??? they're an onion variety so sweet some people bite into them.

>>18679888
Sometmes a bag of smaller yellow onions is a good price per pound, but between my grocers at the moment the cheapest are a-bit-larger-than-baseball-sized. Big onions make my chopping so much fucking faster when I have to do a lot (which I usually do).

OTOH, I get misshapen oversized carrots at a steep discount, and because they're so thick it can be tougher to dice them sometimes since my knife needs sharpening badly.

>>18680087
Yeah, when raw, they're sweet as fuck, but when caramelised, they're not as sweet as the typical sulfurous varieties, like basic bitch yellow onion. That's why I said they're best raw.
As said, I had to add sugar to my genovese and make it into onion jam instead so that I didn't waste all dem onions.

>>18680172
you are over-caramelizing them then. it's easy to do with vidalias because they have so much sugar. caramel is extremely bitter, so it doesn't take much caramelization to kill the sweetness.

onions are truly the apples of vegetables

What do Americans feed their onions?

>>18680319
mutated genes and growth hormones. and water, endless streams of water

>>18680186
k.

>>18680044
If it’s normal for a bike to be your main mode of transportation you live in a shithole

>>18680044
>not baiting niggers to steal so you can shoot them as God intended with the second amendment
Woo lad, I feel sorry and ashamed for you.

>>18679888
based USA GMOs are hardly regulated. probably never had a strawberry as big as apple either

Yurobros, w-we got too cocky!!

Vidalia and Walla Walla onions are the best
sweet and delicious

>>18679904
>Btw, if you've never had Vidalia onions in season I legitimately feel sad for you.
>>18680046
>When PROPERLY caramelized, Vidalia french onion soup is an order of magnitude better than with any other variety.
>>18680068
>This. After you've had Vidalia French onion soup with a good gruyure you will never consider another onion variety again.
NOOOOOOO, it's impossible that some onion from a specific geographic area is better than other onions, terroir is fake and you can grow that literally anywhere
t.american

>>18681560
Europeans are STILL butthurt about the judgement of Paris

>>18681560
Nooooooo it's impossible that a cheese in a cave is the best ever and can't be reproduced anywhere!

>>18680734
>this is a shithole
I know it sucks that you'll either be killed by an f250 or have your bike stolen big niggers but don't lie.

>>18681583
To be honest, my post was more than anything an acknowledge that the US also have great produce and agricultural products. I'm happy you are proud of it. Sad it's not more widely available.

>>18679888
Large onions are trash anyways. They have no flavour and their only advantage is that it's more convenient to cut up one big onion instead of 4 small ones.

>>18681587
>winkel van sinkel

do the dutch really?

>>18681587
OP you live in a tourist trap or smth? No fucking wonder you cant find good food anywhere, its already been cooked and will only be sold at a 1000% markup. since you're deffo wealthy enough, you probably order from online supermarkets which is why all your food is so shit after all its insanely hard to find a good online food delivery service.

I remember following a recipe from an Indian website and ended up with more onion than the main ingredient because it said to use a whole onion.

Because everything in the U.S. is designed for quantity, not quality. Amerilards want more of something, even if it's garbage.

>>18679955
big hands do not work well with tiny things
t. wanted to work on circuitry and electronics but my fingers are too big to be useful

>>18681587
can you swim in that? if you can't, it's a shithole.

>>18682762
You can get both in the US. You do realize the amount of choice for products in the US trumps EU by several orders of magnitude, right?

>>18681587
>be killed by an f250
It's the only way to die with a modicum of dignity

>Mfw the recipe calls for one medium onion

>>18682762
>onion look big so it taste bad
You can't argue with that flawless logic.

>>18680019
kek

>>18683751
Well not circuitry, no, but we're talkin' onions, amigo. I have fairly average hands for a 1m85 guy and I have no problem peeling shallots, for example, but doing fine work similar to circuitry, I've gotta use pincers/tweezers (is there a difference?).

>>18681587
well good job proving anons point lol

>>18681587
if you leave yourbike locked at ouwegracht it will get stolen

>>18679888
They need a lot of food in order to shit in their pants in wall-mart. It's their mating ritual, they are strange creatures

>>18684891
That's clearly not shit, it's sweat. Very clammy.

>>18684898
brown sweat

>>18684891
>>18684910
Why do you have these images saved?
Is this your fetish?

>>18684932
There's a thing called search engine

>>18684946
Why are the images saved to his device though?
Must be his fetish.

>>18684971
Don't you save picture of animals doing funny retarded thing?

>>18684946
If you like fat poopy Americans then im your guy bro

>>18685016
post pic so I can laugh with my eurofrens

>>18680319
Idk about these store bought shits, but I grow my own white and red onions and they're regularly about the size as Ops pic if you have good spacing and good nutrients.

>>18681537
Those taste like shit

>>18679955
vidalias are good for everything

>>18680019
Why do people hate this guy?

>>18685827
Because he's french. Yuck. I would never eat something touched by a Frenchman

>>18685901
Understandable. I only eat food touched by coonasses.

>>18683910
Yeah but you use, what, 1 or 2 shallots? Meanwhile if you're making french onion soup you need to peel and slice a couple of pounds of onion and that's way easier if it's 6 large onions than if it's 24 small onions.