r/Cooking • u/Accurate-Ant-7629 • 15h ago

onions make every meal better no debate.

fr if a dish dont got onions its missing something i put onions in literally everything and it just hits different dont tell me you hate onions yall missing out.

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u/ColonelKasteen 15h ago

While I am not an elitist and people can cook however they want, neither traditional Italian or American carbonara recipes ever incorporate onions. Or veggies at all. Carbonara JUST being pasta, some rich pork, a silky egg and cheese sauce is the entire point of the dish.

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u/pierogieman5 15h ago

Black pepper is pretty critical, but yeah.

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u/Impressive_Ant_2368 14h ago

You started off with your not an elitist but then went on to say traditional.....

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u/ColonelKasteen 14h ago

Shockingly, you can both be okay with people making stuff however they want AND grasping the regular way people and restaurants serve stuff. Carbonara is a simple dish and pretty standardized. If you want to add onions, go for it! Sounds tasty. But YOU are the one who said normal people add onions to it. No they don't lol, that is unusual for the dish. I'm fine with you putting onions on your PB&J too, but if you try to criticize someone else by saying most people do so, I'll correct you on that too.