Callisto in NC
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I have some red onions that are about to go south. Can I chop and freeze them and successfully use them?
I have some red onions that are about to go south. Can I chop and freeze them and successfully use them?
Cheap? Red onions? $2 a pound isn't cheap to me. I'm a single mom and every penny counts.Raw--nope...frankly. Onions are pretty cheap--toss them out when they go bad.
Cheap? Red onions? $2 a pound isn't cheap to me. I'm a single mom and every penny counts.
I do have one of those Reynolds devices that suck the air out of the bag. It can't hurt to try that.
I'm in the center of North Carolina near Lake Norman, hot and moist is all I get. It's in the mid 70s today and it's the middle of November. Our weather is not conducive to being able to store much.I guess I really don't toss that many. I generally use mine before they go bad. I might lose 4 or 5 a year. If you have a cool place store them in a mesh bag or in a basket.. They will last a long time. Warmth is the enemy of storing onions.. so is moisture..
I've never had luck carmelizing. The time I tried, I nearly burnt the kitchen down. I have also never thought of using carmelized onions with my ground beef.Loprraine said:I've never frozen them raw ( not saying it wouldn't work ). I have caramelized them and frozen them, they turn out fine.
Interesting. I've never browned my onions for my meat dishes in the crock pot. Learning something here.I brown onions and freeze then all the time. Over winter, I often do stews in the crockpot, and it's so easy to just pop in a lump of frozen, browned onion with the meat etc before I leave for work. If I had to chop and brown the onion in the morning, I'd either be late a lot or do it less often
I'm in the center of North Carolina near Lake Norman, hot and moist is all I get. It's in the mid 70s today and it's the middle of November. Our weather is not conducive to being able to store much.