40 points

Onions. They’re delicious and versatile and make most savoury dish better.

They still make me cry though, and I must have tried probably 20+ different methods to help with it at this point. None work for me.

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I lived with someone who refused to eat anything that she knew had onion in (if she didn’t know, she was fine, like burger patties), it was very difficult to cook in that household

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6 points

I was like that until pretty late in my teens. I found cooked onions kinda gross and off-putting. When I think about it now I feel bad for my mom who used to cook for me.

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4 points

Raw onions however?

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6 points

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onion is an extremly strong contenter … like all the forms , its cool with everybody … you cry when you cut it , its smells proclaims a good meal coming…

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5 points

Amen. Got some lotus leaf buns and I’m low on food, so probably just frying up some onions and stalk mushrooms in oyster sauce and calling it a day.

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I put cut onions under running water immediately and flex them apart so it gets all of the tear gas out.

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6 points

I accept I’m an onion crybaby and weep.

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I find going outside for a little bit when it gets bad helps

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You can keep them in the fridge too to stop the tear gas.

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4 points

I went to Ethiopia and found they eat onions a lot. You grind them to a pulp (e.g. In a good processor, so no crying) and fry the pull with seasonings and tomato paste. Best sauce ever.

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1 point

fantastic, we accidentally bought two giant bags of onions at my house so now I know what to do with them!

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1 point

There’s a dish called Shirowot. There might be others. But this is delicious. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rh3Om9-o9tI

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4 points

score the onion horizontally and vertically like a grid without hitting the root, then slice the face to create a good dice and then quickly discard the root without getting the juice on your hand, then quickly clean your knife. that’s the solution.

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it’s onions

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Very unconvential, but what I do… I have diving goggles that cover the nose and I just put them on when I cut onions. No more tears, but you look ridiculous for a while :D

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No dish is complete without some onion

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21 points

Brassica oleracea cultivars because basically everyone took this same family and bred it to emphasize different parts of the plant

Broccoli, kale, brussel sprouts, etc

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6 points

I refuse to believe this. Botanists are just fucking with us.

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5 points

You’re cheating and you know it

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4 points

Broccol

nah, shit’s good if you saute it (or do almost anything else with it, but if you steam it, be careful to keep any excess water because that’s now where almost all of your vitamins are)

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16 points

The vegetable reading this right now

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cheney in a coma?

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10 points

Cabnage :)

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no.

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5 points

:(

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not since “the Kimichi Incident” … sorry… i nearly died… (Dont drink all the soup /water from a Kimichi bowl …!.)

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2 points

mmmm kimchi

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