Just started dating one, she tells me she doesn’t like onion. Like what? You eat onion in so much shit without realizing it! How do you not like onion‽
I have a love hate relationship with it. The extra flavor onion can add is god tier. The texture is awful. So I cook with it but leave minimal pieces left in the dish.
Well, it does suck. I remember when I was in high school and I found some cookbook with recipes from different countries. I tried cooking some of them and was amazed at how intense the taste was. Only later I realized that those recipes were pretty normal, they just tasted amazing compared with my mother’s cooking. It’s not that my mother’s cooking was very bland but Polish cuisine is pretty boring. It’s mostly salty and sour, not much variation. And some people never venture out beyond what they grew up with.
Speaking as someone with texture issues and a very sensitive pallet, it fucking sucks ass. Lived in India for 4 years, couldn’t eat fucking anything even though I tried to force myself every day. I wish I could enjoy Asian food the way everyone else does :( At least I had butter chicken 😭
You basically can, albeit not in pill form. There’s a whole category of complete meal replacement options, mostly in the form of shakes. The best known is Soylent by Rosa Labs, but there are dozens of others targeting every nutritional profile around. Most are a fraction of the cost of even the most basic foods.
Strangely, most of those people will still not even try these.
I remember reading somewhere that you need to use your teeth and chew food for health reasons (tooth decay otherwise?). So it’s not a great replacement, even if you hate taste
Yall have some wrong kind of onion. Where I am, raw onion is clean and crunchy like fresh cabbage. Do yall buy onion only after it has been lying around in warm air for a year?
What really has awful texture is boiled cabbage or onion.
Like there’s white, yellow, and red onions. On top of that, lightly cooked yellow onions are far different from heavily carmalized ones (crunchy and oniony vs soft and sweet)
I have a hypothesis but am not smart enough to verify. But I think Onion affects some people like cilantro. Where a portion of people have a reaction to it and others do not. But mostly that they are responding to onion’s intended natural defense of vapor and oil.
I have an alternative hypothesis: At least some people who say they don’t like onion are basing that opinion entirely on raw onion and refuse to consider and/or haven’t noticed cooked onion.
Go to restaurant, get served a house salad, bite into the purple thing, OH GOD WHAT IS THAT?
Yeah, I can’t eat raw onion or celery bc it squeaks when bitten like a live animal or something. I definitely use onion and celery powders when cooking tho 😂
I didn’t like onions in my childhood. I grew fond of them when approaching adulthood, particularly when I moved out and started properly cooking for myself and buying my own fast food. Now a sandwich without onion doesn’t taste right.
So I think it’s rather a matter of a particular configuration of tastebuds. Just like I grew out of liking overly sweet foods.
I am kind of the same way with garlic. I can certainly enjoy foods that have garlic as one of the ingredients, but if it’s the main flavor, I tend to not like it. Like, if I’m choosing from the hummus varieties available to me, I have no problem with the plain hummus that obviously has garlic in it, but I don’t like the “roasted garlic” variety that has extra garlic.
My husband doesn’t eat onion, pepper, mushroom and any other “weird” vegetable. Try cooking with these restrictions. If I have to use one of these, he’ll eat it, but he won’t like it, so I feel like it’s not fair to serve to him constantly, only once in a while.
You could try pawning your husband off on my ex-wife. She has all of the same “restrictions”, but also bell peppers and garlic. Oh and no fish of any sort, except for herring, which she’ll eat tons of whenever pregnant (which I think would be most of the time if she could)
If him a big boy who has sex, he can eat a like a big boy. Else, crack open a can of spagetty-o’s and make yourself a portabella burger with onions and pepper.
I kinda hate onion. If I don’t taste it it’s fine but any dish that I’ve tried both with and without I heavily prefer without. Fried onions are the exception for me.
Just started dating one, she tells me she doesn’t like onion. Like what? You eat onion in so much shit without realizing it! How do you not like onion‽
I have a love hate relationship with it. The extra flavor onion can add is god tier. The texture is awful. So I cook with it but leave minimal pieces left in the dish.
That’s interesting. I’m huge on texture and I love onions for theirs. Tomatoes on the other hand…
Incidentally, I also love the texture of tomatoes 🤔 are you my evil twin by any chance?
I’m both your evil triplet, I don’t like the texture of either.
Read this as “toilet”. It still works. Maybe better.
Dude you just made me want to make French onion soup
Peak onion-based dish right there. The broth gets all the oniony flavor but then you don’t need too many onions in it…
Maybe you and I make it different mine is like 75% onion (the rest is bread and cheese)
I prefer for there not to be too much, but soaking the onions does lessen my reaction to the texture of raw onion so either way it’s a good soup
I don’t like onions either. The taste is ok sometimes, but not very nice. And the texture is awful.
Practically every cuisine around the world uses onion.
Some people don’t like taste.
Must suck hating every cuisine on the planet
Well, it does suck. I remember when I was in high school and I found some cookbook with recipes from different countries. I tried cooking some of them and was amazed at how intense the taste was. Only later I realized that those recipes were pretty normal, they just tasted amazing compared with my mother’s cooking. It’s not that my mother’s cooking was very bland but Polish cuisine is pretty boring. It’s mostly salty and sour, not much variation. And some people never venture out beyond what they grew up with.
TBH Northern Italian food is the same way. My Italian grandmother made godawful bland pasta sauce
Speaking as someone with texture issues and a very sensitive pallet, it fucking sucks ass. Lived in India for 4 years, couldn’t eat fucking anything even though I tried to force myself every day. I wish I could enjoy Asian food the way everyone else does :( At least I had butter chicken 😭
Peppers >>>>>onions, rank up playa
Some people would take a pill for sustenance if they could.
You basically can, albeit not in pill form. There’s a whole category of complete meal replacement options, mostly in the form of shakes. The best known is Soylent by Rosa Labs, but there are dozens of others targeting every nutritional profile around. Most are a fraction of the cost of even the most basic foods.
Strangely, most of those people will still not even try these.
I remember reading somewhere that you need to use your teeth and chew food for health reasons (tooth decay otherwise?). So it’s not a great replacement, even if you hate taste
I just replace it all with shallots. They’re way better, no nasty slimy texture. Fuck cooked onions, nastiest shit ever, texture-wise
Yall have some wrong kind of onion. Where I am, raw onion is clean and crunchy like fresh cabbage. Do yall buy onion only after it has been lying around in warm air for a year?
What really has awful texture is boiled cabbage or onion.
Is it possible you’re cooking the onion wrong?
And?
Out of curiosity, is it any onions?
Like there’s white, yellow, and red onions. On top of that, lightly cooked yellow onions are far different from heavily carmalized ones (crunchy and oniony vs soft and sweet)
Any of them bastards
Except leek. But I don’t know for sure whether it counts as an onion
What about spring onion/green onion?
Don’t forget pickled red onions. Fuck I gotta bring a jar of those to snack on to the movie tonight
Mm pickled pearl onions tho
I used to know this place that did pickled garlic cloves. I miss them.
Raw onions have an awsome texture come on.
I have a hypothesis but am not smart enough to verify. But I think Onion affects some people like cilantro. Where a portion of people have a reaction to it and others do not. But mostly that they are responding to onion’s intended natural defense of vapor and oil.
I have an alternative hypothesis: At least some people who say they don’t like onion are basing that opinion entirely on raw onion and refuse to consider and/or haven’t noticed cooked onion.
Go to restaurant, get served a house salad, bite into the purple thing, OH GOD WHAT IS THAT?
Yeah, I can’t eat raw onion or celery bc it squeaks when bitten like a live animal or something. I definitely use onion and celery powders when cooking tho 😂
Alliums (which includes onions) are not uncommon food allergy so there’s something in your theory
I didn’t like onions in my childhood. I grew fond of them when approaching adulthood, particularly when I moved out and started properly cooking for myself and buying my own fast food. Now a sandwich without onion doesn’t taste right.
So I think it’s rather a matter of a particular configuration of tastebuds. Just like I grew out of liking overly sweet foods.
I am kind of the same way with garlic. I can certainly enjoy foods that have garlic as one of the ingredients, but if it’s the main flavor, I tend to not like it. Like, if I’m choosing from the hummus varieties available to me, I have no problem with the plain hummus that obviously has garlic in it, but I don’t like the “roasted garlic” variety that has extra garlic.
I love garlic in all forms but I have to agree - garlic as a seasoning is very different to garlic as a flavour.
My wife loves taylor swift and thinks pepper is too spicey
My husband doesn’t eat onion, pepper, mushroom and any other “weird” vegetable. Try cooking with these restrictions. If I have to use one of these, he’ll eat it, but he won’t like it, so I feel like it’s not fair to serve to him constantly, only once in a while.
Those are like the 3 things I use the most! God, I feel for you!
You could try pawning your husband off on my ex-wife. She has all of the same “restrictions”, but also bell peppers and garlic. Oh and no fish of any sort, except for herring, which she’ll eat tons of whenever pregnant (which I think would be most of the time if she could)
Seafood is disgusting though. Whales shit in that sea.
If him a big boy who has sex, he can eat a like a big boy. Else, crack open a can of spagetty-o’s and make yourself a portabella burger with onions and pepper.
Maybe it makes her fart.
Why are we listing more reasons to like onion?
I also dont like union like the caremelized shit it sucks but if its cooked into a dish i can enjoy it maybe sm like this?
My mom hated onions and could tell if there was even a tiny amount in something. I didn’t like them much as a kid either
My mom’s the same way, except she can only taste the onion when being told it’s in the dish…even when there is none
I kinda hate onion. If I don’t taste it it’s fine but any dish that I’ve tried both with and without I heavily prefer without. Fried onions are the exception for me.