How do you store your onions?

[Lovemymumnot]

If I leave mine in the fridge, they sprout.. If I leave them in a little used kitchen cupboard (where I keep tins) they rot a few leaves into the skin & they still also sprout. Where can I keep the fecking things that they don't rot & don't sprout!

Are you keeping them in the plastic bag or loose ? As the plastic bags make them sprout/not keep well.
I keep them in the cupboard in a little wooden crate.

I think they are supposed to stored in a dark dry place so like a cupboard

1. I originally read this as opinions and was puzzled by the question

1. How on earth long are you keeping them for? I’ve never had more than a dozen bad onions in decades of buying & using them. I have kept in both fridge & a cool dark cupboard, no issues.

Sorry, that’s not going to help you...

In the fridge.

We used to keep potatoes in the fridge too until we read they shouldn't. So I've moved them to a cupboard but they don't keep anywhere near as long and sprout all over the place!

I store them pre-chopped in the freezer

Honestly, best thing ever.

I kept them in an old fruit bowl loose like apples. I'm now experimenting with just leaving them out on the worktop.

In some fabric bags for vegetables - onion, and potatoes. I think it was a housewarming gift

In a bowl with a tea towel on top, they last quite a while that way. Without the tea towel, not so long. I keep them on the cold side of the kitchen.

I buy them pre-chopped and frozen. So much easier.

Any other fruit or veg in the cupboard apart from onions (and the cans) or has the kitchen got a lot of moisture? Both can cause sprouting!

I store them pre-chopped in the freezer

Same

I suffer worse than most with the thing when you're chopping fresh and it stimulates tears. I'm literally blind in a few seconds! And it takes almost an hour to recover/see properly again.

Frozen chopped onion is the way to go MUCH Easier all round.

In the bowl of my weighing scales on the worktop. I've never had an onion sprout!

We keep ours in the garage, as we grow our own, we tend to have a glut. We use old tights, putting an onion in each leg, then tying a knot before next onion goes in. We then hang them from the garage ceiling.

A bit of a phaff if you've only got three, but a brilliant way to store them if you have 30.

They need to be kept in a cool, dry dark place with all plastic wrapping removed..

Mine are kept in a fabric cotton bag with a black cotton liner. This bag is then kept inside 2 brown paper carrier bags, and stored inside a cupboard.

We've just eaten the last of the onions I bought back in march, and they were absolutely fine.

In a cupboard

DP put potatoes in the cupboard and they went manky quite quickly so they're in the fridge again, except some big ones because there isn't space.