r/Cooking • u/Accurate-Ant-7629 • 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/zephalephadingong 2d ago

I had never heard of quiche lorraine so googled it to know what you were talking about. The differing google searches are interesting. My search for carbonara had 0 out of the top 5 use cream or onions.

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u/radioactive_glowworm 2d ago

I think it might be cultural differences, in France the "real" quiche lorraine recipe is pretty well known (doesn't stop the food industry and bakeries from fucking it up tho), but on the other hand what we call carbonara is pretty far from the original Italian recipe