You can eat red onion raw, surely?

[SneakyGremlins]

Doesn't it always come with toasties in cafes?

Eh? I love it in salads, weird!

Oooh weird! Do you think it’s been sprayed with something you need to wash off? I eat red onion raw often

Is that the ready prepared stuff ?

Cook off I meant

It's because it is already sliced.

It's literally just a thirty pence bag of Asda sliced red onion.

I've put it in a toastie and only seen that when clearing up

Maybe it's preserved in chlorine or something. Just buy a red onion next time and eat raw. Yum!

Incredibly dangerous. You should always make sure the juices run clear. Oh no that's chicken isn't it

It has probably been treated with something to stop it going brown after being cut up.

It's probably more to do with the way it's been prepared and the risk of bacterial contamination, compared with a red onion you've cut freshly, yourself

Probably coated in something not good to eat raw.

I sell it in salads and toasties every day raw...and eat quite a bit whilst prepping, I'm still alive and not aware of having killed off any customers

I think onions absorb germs really well when cut. So I am guessing it is because it is sliced. You can definitely est red onion raw normally.

Cheese and red onion toastie yummy

I'll let you know if this toastie kills me - will a toastie count as cooking?

You can. But you should not.

Why Bertrand?

If the cheese turns to lava then it should cook the onion a bit

Ok now I want a cheese and onion toastie

Oh the cheese (mozzarella ) was absolutely lava.

it's because it's sliced and refridgerated.
just like bagged salat leaves that also say to wash before use.
can be contaminated with nasty germs.

most likely nothing will happen

Because it’s disgusting.....

Lovely with a jacket potato, butter, cheddar cheese, mixed salad leaves and chutney on the side.

Can't say that I've died from eating this.

It's probably the risk of bacterial contamination, as pp have said.

It's because someone's had their grubby mits on it to chop it.