Should I be keeping onions in the fridge?

[toggle]

You see, that pretty much confirms my suspicions.

..........

Then you're probably better off picking up fruit and veg weekly or more often if possible. Onions shouldn't go off in a week whether in a warmish cupboard or in the fridge.

I'll assume you get stuff from supermarkets, most people do. Don't get the bags of cheapo onions, they go off too quickly and would be more than you would need in a week for one person. get loose ones, as many as you will need for the week. Feel them, you want then to be hard, if they are sqidgy then they are starting to go off.

 

[zenie]

Right so you’re obviously worried about the fumes you might get off the road affecting the aroma of your onions correct?

Have you got a window not on the main road? A roof terrace perhaps?

Why don’t you just buy onions when you need them? They’re not exactly expensive and this would solve the whole debacle you have caused over bloody onions

 

[girasol]

I have checked. She's okay - very busy breaking stuff.

Indeed, onion thread on urban distracted me and now I've only gone an deleted a whole directory by mistake...

yes, I have a backup, before you all start laughing your onion heads off


no more me here today! until lunch...

 

[EastEnder]

Have you got a window not on the main road? A roof terrace perhaps?

A "roof terrace"?????

What kind of palatial dwelling do you think I live in???

I have a pokey one bedroom flat, sandwiched between several other little flats, on the main road, in murder central, Stockwell.

No roof terrace, no hanging gardens, no swimming pool, no butlers or concierge.

Sorry to disappoint you.

 

[geminisnake]

No roof terrace, no hanging gardens, no swimming pool, no butlers or concierge.

Sorry to disappoint you.

(((EE)))

Eggs are more likely to break when boiled if kept in fridge, onions should be kept out of the fridge until an hr or so before you use them, apparently that stops them from making your eyes water.
I find buying dried onion solves the onion storage problem When I do buy fresh onions I keep them on the kitchen floor(in the corner where all the veg lives before being eaten) Tidyiness is not a speciality of mine

 

[mauvais]

It doesn't matter where supermarkets keep eggs or onions or whatever - the supply warehouses are cold, dark places, and once the stuff gets to the store display, it's easily gone within a day, even for smaller stores.

 

[toggle]

I've only used dried onions in breadmaking. I don't see them that often aned when i have seen them, they seem too pricy for normal ise. I'm not sure they would work in a lot of the dishes i make as well. I can see them in stews, or the sort of soup that you cook for an hour, but not in a stir fry or anything else that wants texture as well as flaour.

 

[geminisnake]

I've only used dried onions in breadmaking. I don't see them that often aed when i have seen them, they seem too pricy for normal use. I can see them in stews, or the sort of soup that you cook for an hour, but not in a stir fry or anything else that wants texture as well as flour.

Soups, stews and casseroles is usually what I use them in. (I do a lot of one pot cooking)I get them from our pet shop, they do a range of dried stuff. You can get them from those scoop and save shops too. You're right about the wee boxes being ludicrously overpriced though

 

[EastEnder]

You're right about the wee boxes being ludicrously overpriced though

You pay for boxes of wee????????

Didn't know you were into that sort of thing.......

I can start bottling mine if you're interested?

Save a bit of cash.

 

[geminisnake]

You pay for boxes of wee????????

Go forward and multiply sweetie, or take a long walk off a wee plank.

 

[nogoodboyo]

I think you're focusing on the downsides of urban living. Embrace the fact that you need not keep onions at all, because of all the lovely shops in Stockwell.

Eggs, though, don't like to be cold.

 

[zenie]

Just fuckin buy new ones will ya

 

[EastEnder]

Just fuckin buy new ones will ya

I don't like shopping, so try to do it infrequently.

If I only ever bought new, I'd need to brave the horror of shops all the more often.



The consensus appears to be that one should not keep onions in the fridge.

Henceforth, my onions will no longer reside with Mr Milk & Mrs Butter.

If this daring departure from convention results in spoiled produce, I shall be sending the bill to all those who voted 'No'.

 

[geminisnake]

Lidl are doing 1/2 price veg just now, so you'd waste slightly less money if you go there.

See how helpful I am

 

[EastEnder]

Lidl are doing 1/2 price veg just now, so you'd waste slightly less money if you go there.

Lidl???????

I'm not a bloody pikey!

Now if M&S were doing 1/2 price veg.....

 

[geminisnake]

Lidl???????

I'm not a bloody pikey!

Mrs M shops at Lidl, are you suggesting Mrs M is a pikey??
Half the folk on these boards shop at Lidl at least sometimes, afaik. Are they all pikeys?

Afaic a pikey is a fishy anyway, damn stupid derogatory english expression

 

[scarecrow]

Eggs don't go off for ages. Supermarkets don't keep them refrigerated do they?

My fridge has dedicated indentations for eggs to sit in. I keep bread in the fridge too.

 

[EastEnder]

I keep bread in the fridge too.

Do you have horns and a pointy tail???

 

[spanglechick]

as a rule of thumb - you can't do better than storing food in the environment in which it is stocked in the supermarket / grocers etc.

Certainly it's in supermarkets' interests to store things in a way which will prolong their life.

My onions last ages (even when i lived in a flat with heating) - are you checking how hard they are when you buy them EE? You want no "give" at all - then they last longer.

However, I can't seem to make broccolli last more than a day...

 

[Hanfstaengl]

Put pickled onions in the fridge.