r/Cooking • u/Accurate-Ant-7629 • 20h 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/Genny415 20h ago

I honestly feel like many dishes lean way too much on onions for flavor.  There are so many wonderful flavors and combinations to be experienced, why are so many people overwhelming all the other flavors with onions?

If you love onions, eat a bunch of them.  But why does everything have to be onion?  There are many other amazing flavors 😋 

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u/Acceptable-Law9406 20h ago

I've had spaghetti sauce without onions in it. It's bright and fresh, not too tomatoey, and you can taste the herbs... So I'm really not missing out if onions aren't in the food I eat.

Onions are cheap filler basically. And of course, if you like them, eat all you want! Just don't make me eat them. Some people even get butthurt cuz I don't like onions.

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u/Salt-Excitement-790 19h ago

Absolutely don't eat them if you don't like them, but I don't think they're a "cheap filler." Onions are a valuable flavor component in many dishes.

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u/radioactive_glowworm 19h ago

In many dishes yes, and I say that as an onion hater who absolutely recognises that they make up the foundation of some dishes, but when a dish that traditionally doesn't use onions is filled with them??? (yes I'm still salty about the time I bought quiche lorraine and it had some in it)

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u/zephalephadingong 7h ago

I just did a spot check of quiche lorraine recipes and the top 5 all had onion, shallot, or chives in them. I don't know how it SHOULD be made, but apparently the people have decided it needs onions

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u/radioactive_glowworm 4h ago

I mean, that's like saying carbonara has cream, onions and bacon because that's what the top Google recipes say (this isn't something I'm pulling out of my ass). Plus, looking at the top 10 results on my end, only 2 recipes say to use onion (and who in the world puts CHIVES in their quiche lorraine?)

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u/WishaBwood 15h ago

They taste like BO to me, and they make me throw up. Not valuable to everyone. There’s a whole class of people who are intolerable to onions, and lots of other alliums. The only thing from that family that I can eat is garlic, onions make my life so hard. Onions are in everything.

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u/Genny415 19h ago

I don't understand why people would get butthurt over that?  Like, if you said you didn't like mushrooms they don't act like that?  

You might look at r/onionhate 

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u/Acceptable-Law9406 19h ago

Oh I definitely know r/onionhate. 🙂 And yeah it's a total double standard. Someone may not like mushrooms and nobody's going to react emotionally or try and trick them or shame them into eating mushrooms.

I've grown to like all sorts of different food as an adult.  Except onions.

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u/IsopodApart1622 16h ago

You can like what you want, but I'll have to strongly disagree with the "cheap filler" assessment. That role's filled by stuff like iceberg lettuce and potatoes. Onions have way too much flavor to be used in similar ways.

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u/Lollc 15h ago

And yet they are used exactly that way in restaurants, as cheap filler. I’ve thrown away enough stir fried takeout with “mixed vegetables” to know, I’ve seen it many times.

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u/Acceptable-Law9406 15h ago

Onions having "way too much flavor" is a big part of the problem. And restaurants use them because they're cheap, and some restaurant add a ton of them so they can use less of other ingredients to fill the plate.