Salt doesn't smell.
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shallot, butter, white wine
Garlic and onion in oil is enough to trigger my hay-fever and irritate my nose so that shit doesn't actually smell good to me
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Been trying to figure out how to explain to my little kids that they don't like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.
They love McDonald's cheeseburgers, chips of all sorts, all with onions. They're small, biting an onion is too much for their taste buds, so they think they hate onions.
Anyone help me articulate the idea? LOL, it's funny I think on it so much.
For me, I dislike (and as a child, hated) the texture of onions. Onion as a flavour has always been fine, it was biting them that was the problem.
Caramelize the onions a bit and blend half into a paste, ask which one tastes bad. If they answer that only the chunky onion is bad, teach them about texture preferences.
They taste different when cooked.
Caramelize them properly and they go from weird, sour but slightly spicy vegetables to straight up candy.
they don't like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.
I don't think the distinction between "taste" and "flavour" is the right way to frame it. Raw onion on its own can be overwhelming. If you eat a hamburger with raw onion on it, the amount of raw onion per bite will be pretty small, and it will be one taste in a whole bunch of other tastes. Your kids probably wouldn't like eating pure salt, or pure pepper either. But, food with some salt tastes great.
Having said that, fried onions are a whole different game. After 5 minutes the onion loses a lot of its potency and gets a bit sweet. After 30 minutes it's basically a very slightly pungent candy. For a French Onion Soup, you can cook them for up to 2 hours before they're ready. A pot that's full to the brim of raw onions reduces down to a thin layer at the bottom, and they taste more like gummy worms than onions at that point.
I love French Onion Soup, and occasionally make it. I'd make it more, it's just that slicing up more than a kilogram of onions is a whole process. It's so difficult it makes me cry every time I do it.
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Eat it or starve.
You don't drink ketchup. You don't eat salt. But if you try unsalted fries without ketchup you'll understand what salt and ketchup are for.
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Except butter instead of oil
Why "instead" ?
Coward. I use both. And then salt the fuck out of it. Every meal takes a year off my life, but fuck if I'm not enjoying the ones I'm left with
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And bacon instead of salt
What about the wonderful stink of cumin?
I just don't put on deodorant, same thing
It's a personal thing, but the smell of cumin kills my appetite. I had a bad experience with it once and I can't shake the association between the smell and the experience.
There wee several house-party focused cookbooks that suggested to just fry off a pan of decoy onions as your guests enter the house. Doesn't matter if they get used in a dish or not, just cook the onions.
Should be ginger instead of salt.
I mean, you need salt. But you don't smell it.
Idk, sometimes just baked bread and sugar smells really good too.
That's one of the best smells of ever exist. There was a bakery on the way from my home to school. They usually had a fresh batch when I walked to school in the morning, and boy it made me salivate.