Red onion in salad!

[Ult-Jim]

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 leave well it is a car forum after all

[Black can man]

I always put Red onions in salad ,

[Hoofy]

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]

Salad, sandwiches, pizza, sauce, anything, bring on the red onion.

[21TonyK]

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]

I truly fear for the future of both PH and mankind.

[Urban Sports]

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 leave well it is a car forum after all

[Ult-Jim]

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

[JFReturns]

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

Alternatively, red wine vinegar has the same effect and the onion goes a nice translucent pink colour

[Don]

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

[HTP99]

Red onion fan here too, however I make sure I have plenty of gum for afters!

[Chim]

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 leave well it is a car forum after all

Have a few more 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]

Raw onion.

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]

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]

I read this as:

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ONIONS!

I have two amazing cars

ONIONS!

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

[otolith]

Sainsers have some really nice mild, sweet, white skinned onions which are lovely in a salad.

[AndyTR]

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]

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]

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]

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?