To think life is too short to slice onions

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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?

Didn't even know there were such things.

@LondonQueen

I buy everything ready-chopped

And me - ready grated cheese, prepared sprouts, peeled and sliced carrots, bowls of prepared fruit - anything which saves time and makes life a little easier

I don’t want my mascara to run chopping onion or my hands to smell of them so I am team #prechopped all the way

Here, the food processor lives on the kitchen counter, so I just bung them down the spout, then rinse the blade and bowl afterwards - but only if I'm doing a load, otherwise a knife is easier.

I have an onion chopper thing. Used for every single type veg. Super quick and easy.

Yanbu. Frozen pre chopped onions are great.

There is zero waste with frozen onions. Just take out what you need. Pop the rest back in the freezer. There's no skin, no root and top slices, and no rotten one at the bottom of the bag. Broadly similar price to fresh. I think the zero waste must surely mitigate use of one small plastic bag. Which you can now recycle at your supermarket

Waste of freezer space IMO

@Camomila @Duchess379

I'd love to hear move of your shortcuts. My dd12 is hypermobile and recently diagnosed dyspraxic she loves cooking but definitely gets in a pickle with a knife. (Though she did score better than most of her classmates in a recent food assessment as most had never chopped a carrot before!!)

But they taste like plastic 😬

I've just Lazy Garlic for years but I used to chopped onions as I didn't see the value in precooked.... However I recently picked up some frozen chopped onions and they are definitely a game changer! If nothing else I will be utilising my food processor more for bulk prep!

It's interesting that posters on threads about takeaways don't usually get criticised for being lazy and creating lots of plastic waste.

@autumntimebrowns

There is zero waste with frozen onions. Just take out what you need. Pop the rest back in the freezer. There's no skin, no root and top slices, and no rotten one at the bottom of the bag. Broadly similar price to fresh. I think the zero waste must surely mitigate use of one small plastic bag. Which you can now recycle at your supermarket

But the waste did exist, it’s just been removed before they got to you? It’s not like they came out of the ground peeled and pre-chopped.

I don’t mind taking an extra 2 minutes to chop onions. Garlic can do one, though - minced garlic in a jar all the way.

Spaghetti for dinner. DH bought whole onions. Sob

YABU. Make him slice them. Onion slicing is a blue job in this house.

@Han19877

But they taste like plastic 😬

How? I mean, they are onions … cooked …

Sharpen your knife it’ll be a lot better.

I like chopping and slicing things. (not in a serial killer way)

I love the idea of frozen chopped onions, I used to get them from Tesco, but they had a weird flavour!

Also do you all put them into fry from frozen?

I find slicing/chopping stuff really satisfying. Maybe I'm weird!

I am the laziest cook ever but I would never buy diced onions. They are expensive, the go off quicker, pre cut things always have a funny taste and onions take seconds to dice.

@HarlanPepper great minds here

I’m terrible at chopping - too slow, and onions seem to particularly affect my eyes and they end up absolutely streaming.
I put onions in the food processor to get them to a “finely sliced” state. Lazy I know, but I wouldn’t buy pre-sliced due to the plastic and the increased cost.

If I use onions, I always buy ready chopped, either fresh or frozen. I love onions but cannot choo them - my eyes sting and start streaming as soon as the knife goes in. If it weren't for ready chopped onions, I wouldn't use them at all, such is the pain I suffer when I try to prepare them myself.

I don’t buy them frozen, just from the veg bit in Morrisons

DH clearly ventured into the actual veg section.

Must LTB.

@LittleOwl153 DH is the main cook in our house but my top three free frozen shortcuts would be diced onions, sliced peppers, and soffritto mix (onion, celery, and carrot). I've tried pre chopped carrots and green beans but they weren't that nice. I'm also a big fan of garlic paste (from flidls). Oh, and for roast potatoes - instead of chopping and par boiling - stab a whole potato with a fork and stick in the microwave for 8mins as if you were making a jacket potato, then chop when it's soft, toss in olive oil and finish roasting in the oven