It often irritates me. I tell my grandmother not to cook food with onions, but she constantly gives an example of how she once cooked food without onions and no one even touched it, although I think that the food was simply unloved.

I see so many recipes on TikTok that start with frying onions before adding any other ingredients in the pot. I typically skip that stage and heat the oil with bay leaves and garlic / ginger but was wandering what other alternatives people use for frying onions in oil.

I saw an ad for Mexican-style chili crisp, and I love fusion flavors, so I wanted to check it out. Miracle of miracles, it doesn't contain any onion! No scallions, no little green fuckers, none at all.

I've wanted to try Asian chili crisp, but all the big names have onion, and pretty prominently, too.

This is Somos brand. There are two styles, *both* without onion. I opted for the Sweet & Mild because I also love pineapple and mango.

For those of you who also cannot do garlic, I have some bad news, as these do contain garlic.

I haven't tasted it yet, so probably shouldn't post this until I confirm that it's delicious, but I'm so excited about the no onion part that I'm going to post anyway.

Just had someone ask me that at lunch. They had breakfast burritos, and when I asked what was in them, of course one of the ingredients was caramelized onions. So I passed. When someone asked if I was having one, I said I don't like onions. "So you're a picky eater?"

No, I just don't like onions. Fortunately, they seemed to accept that and didn't say anything else.

And who the hell puts onions in a breakfast burrito anyways? Even if I liked onions I wouldn't want that.

Felt compelled to share in a place where people could understand this poor woman’s dilemma.

I’m not OP
Just a lover of my onion hating lover

I actually thought it was hilarious because of how much I hate onions. Like the game KNEW.

Game is called Dungeons of Hinterberg

Im gonna leave this here and have it speak for itself. Nearly threw up watching this.

Cashier is the 🐐

Who of you crazy lads did this?

I have read some comments here stating that onion-avoiding is not easy for Eastern Europeans and it sorta triggered the memories. (I am fine now, in a different gastronomic culture, and also living since a very long time with someone who doesn't care about onions or their absence, and is very respectful of my anti-onionism, so no onion rolls across our threshold, ever :D)

I was born, and eventually visited/spent a chunk of my life, in a Eastern European country. It seemed to have a cult of onions, possibly partly due to poverty while onions were cheap, and it has been ruining my food experiences for every day I had to eat something cooked NOT by myself (because of course there is a total ban on onions in anything I touch huh). As a little kid I was sort of force-fed food containing tons of them, and scolded for "picking out stuff" from my plate (well, the common "feeding abuse" towards kids out there is another triggering topic, dunno how it is nowadays though).

As an adult (and therefore not subject to forcing food on me "shut your mouth and eat" style), I still had to be aware of the moves of very-well-meaning-and-generous locals like "nah you won't even NOTICE them there" or "don't worry, I cut them very small" or "but it gives the necessary taste nuance" and then you try and do your best not to have a gag reflex because they are VERY OBVIOUS THERE and you feel them and they half-cookedly crunch on your teeth or just feel like a piece of hardened snot!!! I think I was most struck by a ton of onions in some sort of pea mush that is otherwise really tasty, whenever cooked without onion fanaticism.

The safest Eastern European attitudes (met extremely rarely): put a not-completely-cut big onion during cooking process and removing it when the dish is cooked, leaving it to whoever wants to eat it; grating the onion into mush so that it completely dissolves during cooking and only leaves a whiff of flavor while not giving off any of the terrible texture (I should say I have 99% of my onion issues linked to the texture in all its states except fried crumbles, and not even the taste in itself), or simply adding it after having served those who hate onions ;)

Met a woman my age recently. We hit it off and got to talking. Then out of nowhere, and i mean completely unprompted, she stated how much she detests onions.

The rant that followed could be our wedding vows.

First date coming up!

Could you imagine LIVING in this thing?! The reek would be legendary.

If this was my workplace I would report that ish! So fast!!! Absolutely not. There’s a time and a place

I have posted this before, but this sub has grown since last time i asked, so i figured it’s time to ask once again.

Most people know that some people have a genetic vulnerability to cilantro, which makes it taste like soap.

Could onion hate be something of the same thing? A lot of people thinks onions taste like body odor. Myself included.

Does onions taste like body odor to you as well?
I’d love for someone to do the science regarding this.

So I've always hated the devils testicle ever since I was little. The usual "you wont taste them" to "just a little and you wont notice". I always taste it and I always notice.

So 20 years later got married, had a kid. My 4 year old detests them as much as I do. I am the home cook. And my wife tried a 30 day no onion meal plan with me and can no longer eat anything onion related or she gets acid reflux or a stomache ache.

It's the old age poision of our time, everyone is so used to eating this garbage of a "vegtable" that they don't notice how much it ruins the flavor of food until they stop eating it.

It tastes bad, smells bad, makes us feel bad, but everyone insists on eating it and ruining our food with it. Once you don't eat it for a month you can finally taste things again and feel better.

Just my experience, but there are so many spices and flavors that don't taste like a sweaty ass hole.