To think life is too short to slice onions

[Oneunslicedonion]

Spaghetti for dinner. DH bought whole onions. Sob.

AIBU to think ready made sliced onions are a marvellous invention? And never buy whole onions again?

@LondonQueen

I buy everything ready-chopped

Me too

I have amassed untold wealth by chopping my own veg & grating my own cheese !

The time it takes to get the food processor out the cupboard, assemble it and clean up after using it, you could just have cut up the sodding onion in far less time.

There are many things life is too short for but I don't view slicing onions as one!

It takes like thirty seconds...more faff digging around in the freezer and opening a plastic bag with scissors imo!

Also jars of ready-chopped garlic. That probably is many times more expensive than fresh but it's still only £1 a jar. Even if I use 1 a week, it's hardly going to bankrupt me.

There are more competent onion slicers than me.it definitely takes me longer than thirty seconds!

Frozen chopped onions and garlic, been a game changer for me. I’m well aware of the packaging and I’m okay with that.

Wasteful and silly.

I’ve just come back from the shops with a bag of shallots. Never mind the slicing but the peeling too !!

Life is too expensive to buy ready-sliced onions.

Sorry, I forgot I'm on Mumsnet, where nobody has to worry about that, with their six-figure salaries.

Yeah I hate chopping onions. It makes my eyes stream. I do still buy onions sometimes but the pre sliced ones are so much more convenient.

Totally agree. I buy it frozen and chopped. I recycle, walk to work and don’t eat meat, so give me this one extravagance!

It's so quick to slice onions

I use both frozen chopped onions and normal whole onions.
Most of the time, chopping an onion is no bother at all. If I’m struggling with my mental health, the thought of it can be like climbing Everest. The frozen chopped ones can be the difference between cobbling something vaguely nutritious together or not eating/eating total rubbish.
They have their place!

@stingofthebutterfly

Life is too expensive to buy ready-sliced onions.

Sorry, I forgot I'm on Mumsnet, where nobody has to worry about that, with their six-figure salaries.

Tbf you don’t have to be on a six figure salary to afford pre sliced onions.

I bet will and Kate buy them fresh. So you are in good company.

I had no idea you could buy ready sliced onions.

Completely agree, we always buy them!

@WomanStanleyWoman

‘Perverse’? Bloody hell.

Yes, obviously not the sexual perverse definition 🙄

A prechopped onion, to me, signifies what the world has come to with regards to convenience and people lacking effort and skills when it comes to basic survival tasks such as cooking. We can't even be bothered to chop an onion. Let alone care about the extra industrial and environmental impact of it.

It literally takes a minute to peel and chop a large onion. 60 secs.

I’ve never bought them either. I’ve always thought they would smell in the freezer ???

Yes but I bet they don't have to chop their own bloody onions or go buy them either they probably have organic gardeners growing them "people" who chop them and then someone like raymond blanc to cook them plus they don't have to worry about the house stinking of onions eyes streaming when trying to deal with kids etc cos nanny and housekeeper n Co will deal with all that shite.

Frozen chopped every time. They are £1 a bag so not much more than fresh onions. Not food waste as you only use what you need and the rest goes back in the freezer.
I also use frozen cauliflower broccoli and peppers.
Garlic paste in a jar it’s about a £1 the Indian ones are the best.

All saves time and means there’s always veg in the freezer ready to use

I wonder how many of the people who buy whole onions because of the single use plastic actually buy them loose or in a paper bag? Whenever I buy whole onions they come in a plastic bag - very much like the one my frozen chopped ones come in - or they come in a plastic mesh net thing.

Saying you wouldn’t buy ready chopped veg due to single use plastic is ridiculous. Plus they don’t “taste Bogging” - they’re literally just onions, chopped and frozen. Do you have junk frozen peas are bogging too?

Do you think*.
Ffs phone

Frozen chopped onions.
It's the way forward.

Sliced onion in plastic when it takes less than a minute to chop an onion? Unnecessary