Red onion in salad!

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Ult-Jim

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624 posts

189 months

Saturday 26th July 2014
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Hi folks, no gourmet chef, but like quality food. I work and live in a job where we have a full time chef in this case with an English pub food background who puts red onion in every salad!! It drives me mad! I find it too strong and over powering for my taste buds. Is this an English taste gene? Our location and my home is in the Southern European Med countries and I have a liking for Southern European (Spanish, Italina & Greek healthy food) but with red onion or even spring onion in abundance in each dish? It make me go mad! I find it over powering on my taste buds.

Please vote yeh or ney. On onion in salad and spring onion in general, especially as a garnish to some dishes. I'm a fellow Englishman, and apart from a traditional English pub ploughmans with pickle onion, large lump of cheddar cheese and abundance of onion in a side salad, is this acceptable from a professional chef who also caters for some of the wealthiest people on the planet?

Your thoughts are much appreciated as I am no expert

Ult-Jim

Ps, eating red onion makes me want to drive my Cateham R500 and Ultima GTR even harder when on leavesmile well it is a car forum after all smile

Black can man

31,816 posts

167 months

Saturday 26th July 2014
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I always put Red onions in salad ,

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Saturday 26th July 2014
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Odd to put it in every salad. He's probably cut down on putting salt so to improve flavour he's added red onion. Do the customers complain?

(FWIW, I love red onion in salad and would put it in every salad but I'm not a professional chef.)

cheddar

4,637 posts

173 months

Saturday 26th July 2014
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Salad, sandwiches, pizza, sauce, anything, bring on the red onion.

21TonyK

11,494 posts

208 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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In lieu of shallot a finely sliced red onion is a reasonable alternative. If its too strong marinate with salt and a little lemon juice first.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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I truly fear for the future of both PH and mankind.

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

202 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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Ult-Jim said:
Hi folks, no gourmet chef, but like quality food. I work and live in a job where we have a full time chef in this case with an English pub food background who puts red onion in every salad!! It drives me mad! I find it too strong and over powering for my taste buds. Is this an English taste gene? Our location and my home is in the Southern European Med countries and I have a liking for Southern European (Spanish, Italina & Greek healthy food) but with red onion or even spring onion in abundance in each dish? It make me go mad! I find it over powering on my taste buds.

Please vote yeh or ney. On onion in salad and spring onion in general, especially as a garnish to some dishes. I'm a fellow Englishman, and apart from a traditional English pub ploughmans with pickle onion, large lump of cheddar cheese and abundance of onion in a side salad, is this acceptable from a professional chef who also caters for some of the wealthiest people on the planet?

Your thoughts are much appreciated as I am no expert

Ult-Jim

Ps, eating red onion makes me want to drive my Cateham R500 and Ultima GTR even harder when on leavesmile well it is a car forum after all smile
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Ult-Jim

Original Poster:

624 posts

189 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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21TonyK said:
In lieu of shallot a finely sliced red onion is a reasonable alternative. If its too strong marinate with salt and a little lemon juice first.
Many thanks, I will try that smile

JFReturns

3,693 posts

170 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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Ult-Jim said:
21TonyK said:
In lieu of shallot a finely sliced red onion is a reasonable alternative. If its too strong marinate with salt and a little lemon juice first.
Many thanks, I will try that smile
Alternatively, red wine vinegar has the same effect and the onion goes a nice translucent pink colour smile

Don

28,377 posts

283 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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I love red onion. I wouldn't put it in every salad, but there's a good few that benefit from it.

HTP99

22,445 posts

139 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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Red onion fan here too, however I make sure I have plenty of gum for afters!

Chim

7,259 posts

176 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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Urban Sports said:
Ult-Jim said:
Hi folks, no gourmet chef, but like quality food. I work and live in a job where we have a full time chef in this case with an English pub food background who puts red onion in every salad!! It drives me mad! I find it too strong and over powering for my taste buds. Is this an English taste gene? Our location and my home is in the Southern European Med countries and I have a liking for Southern European (Spanish, Italina & Greek healthy food) but with red onion or even spring onion in abundance in each dish? It make me go mad! I find it over powering on my taste buds.

Please vote yeh or ney. On onion in salad and spring onion in general, especially as a garnish to some dishes. I'm a fellow Englishman, and apart from a traditional English pub ploughmans with pickle onion, large lump of cheddar cheese and abundance of onion in a side salad, is this acceptable from a professional chef who also caters for some of the wealthiest people on the planet?

Your thoughts are much appreciated as I am no expert

Ult-Jim

Ps, eating red onion makes me want to drive my Cateham R500 and Ultima GTR even harder when on leavesmile well it is a car forum after all smile
roflroflrofl
Have a few more roflroflrofl wk of the week of the week post

Here's a bit of advice though, if he is your PERSONAL chef try asking him not to put onions in the salad.

Mobile Chicane

20,740 posts

211 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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Raw onion. yuck

I don't mind it in late-night drunken street food: a kebab isn't a kebab without onion, but that's it.

I do not want any kind of onion in my lunchtime salad and to be tasting it all afternoon. M&S are the worst offenders.

There isn't a single M&S leafy salad which doesn't have feckin' red onion sneaked in. Moreover it's sliced thinly so you can't pick it all out.

Scantily

394 posts

170 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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Love raw onion in salad, red is best, but white is also fine by me!

It's so rare to get onion in salad from a restaurant, I wish more of them did.

THX

2,348 posts

121 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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I read this as:




ONIONS!

I have two amazing cars

ONIONS!




Not that I'm offended by such posts. It's just I ONIONS!

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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Sainsers have some really nice mild, sweet, white skinned onions which are lovely in a salad.

AndyTR

516 posts

123 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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Love red onion in salad, though can be a bit strong for some. The Mrs finds it a bit over powering so I soak it in water for a minute to lessen the sharpness.

x 7usc

1,422 posts

194 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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I also love red onion in a salad, i feel it adds a nice flavour as some salads can be a bit drab! Particularly nice if said salad is accompanying a juicy steak!

Pferdestarke

7,179 posts

186 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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You've got to be careful with raw onion in salad as it can leave a horrible aftertaste.

Roasted red onion in a salad with some duck fat croutons and streaky lardons takes it to another dimension.

Mastodon2

13,818 posts

164 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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Pferdestarke said:
You've got to be careful with raw onion in salad as it can leave a horrible aftertaste.

Roasted red onion in a salad with some duck fat croutons and streaky lardons takes it to another dimension.
But after a serving of lardons, do you feel invigorated to have a spirited drive in your Veyron Supersport?