To not understand red onion

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People eat it RAW?? Then you stink of it and taste it all day in your mouth and it repeats on you for hours.

I mean, why??? Is it WORTH IT? Would you eat a white onion raw? If not, why not? Oh yeah, because that would be INSANE

I don't eat any type of onions or garlic raw. The taste hangs around for 24 hours however often I brush my teeth, it's always back within an hour or so. I wonder if some people have some inbuilt sensitivity to the taste. I once read somewhere that hypersensitivity to bitterness is a thing for 10% of people. I can't eat lo-salt either, even a tiny amount leaves me tasting salt for hours and hours in spite of tooth brushing!

I have eaten both red and white onions raw.
A cheese and onion sandwich made with raw white onions is a classic.
Red onion is sweeter and milder and a great addition to a salad

Macerated in lemon juice or vinegar reduced the smell a bit

I don't like them raw but I pickle them and put them on everything 😈

I love red onion! But then i also love white onion and yes, will happily eat it raw😁

I can't even kiss DH after hes eaten it as I'm so bloody intolerant of raw onion.
It makes my insides feel on fire for about 24 hours.
Absolutely fine with cooked. Must be a chemical that gets broken down by heat.

They do!

Or rather, our sense of taste gets shitter, just as our eyesight and hearing does.

So just as we need large print as we get older, we start preferring large print in our taste as well, namely, stronger, more identifiable flavours.

It's a sense that goes far earlier in our lives as well, hence why 4 year olds a notoriously picky eaters, but we generally grow out of it by our mid teens.

Yabvu- onions red and white and raw and cooked are all delicious.

Because lots of people like the taste. What's difficult to understand OP?

I love an onion sandwich. No cheese just loads of thinly sliced white onion. But then I can also eat them like apples.

Red onions are delicious if slowly sautéed to caramelise, with maybe a splash of balsamic vinegar added. Perfect accompaniment for sausages.

But obviously they’re nasty raw, and worse on your breath later (and worse still if your best beloved has eaten them and you haven’t). The good thing about raw red vs white onions (apart from being a bit milder if you’re unfortunate enough to eat any) is that at least the colour makes it easier to spot the bits and remove.

I wonder if some people are saying white when they mean yellow? Standard cooking onions are yellow. White onions are available but far less common.

They’re not nasty at all

Well, I don’t like aubergine at all, but I don’t feel the need to understand it!

from AI :“If a cat eats even a small amount of onion, it can suffer from gastrointestinal upset, such as vomiting and diarrhea, and potentially hemolytic anemia due to damage to their red blood cells. Symptoms like lethargy, weakness, and pale or yellowing gums can appear within hours to a few days. It is crucial to contact a veterinarian immediately if your cat consumes onion, as prompt treatment is vital for their recovery.”
A friends DDad had onion ‘allergy’ of some sort, with symptoms of almost drunkenness, he completely avoided them.

I permanently keep a bowl of sliced red onions in salted water and red wine vinegar in my kitchen. My favourite breakfast at the moment is cheese on crackers, topped with the pickled red onion. I do brush my teeth thoroughly afterwards though!

I love onions of all colours and like them raw too. But caramelised onions are an abomination. Taste horrible to me.

It’s delicious on top of a salad - especially a Greek salad. Or in a tuna mayo salad to add a bit of texture in a salad or jacket potato. Or on top of a chilli. Not a huge amount of it but a bit for some extra texture and flavour.
White onion works too, though we usually have red.

I get the bloat too and stomach pains unless I soak the sliced onion in milk first for an hour, or give it multiple long rinses under the tap. I’m fine with cooked or pickled onions. Up until around age 40 I had no issues at all, the sensitivity started later in life. I have no other gut issues. I presume it’s something to do with FODMAP.

i only eat raw onions at home where i know they’ve been prepped adequately.

Although I see many recipes where they say to soak the onions first so I think it might be standard practice in cookery schools?

My late grandmother ate raw thinly sliced onions sprinkled with a little sugar on bread.
She fermented garlic and spread it on bread and also sprinkled on a little sugar🤢.
She was diagnosed with very aggressive cancer 50 years ago that should have killed her and survived the most awful chemotherapy without a bother, to live another 25 years.
She had the constitution of an ox.
She ate a raw egg in the juice of a freshly squeezed orange every morning for her skin.
She had magnificent skin right up to her death.

Well you know what they say: an apple a day keeps the doctor away, a clove of garlic a day keeps everyone away.

You dont understand people have different ideas.to you about what tastes good?