What do people do with the onions?

Question

I was in the line to buy some fruit from these little box-like places which sell fruit and vegetables, and two persons in front of me bought 2 and 3 kilos of onions respectively.
What do they do with this amount of onions? Did I miss something, are onions new bananas or something?

Answer 1

I personally use onions with almost everything. i use a lot of onions, about 2 kg per week. onions give a flavour to the food. it is a matter of taste i believe.

Answer 2

First, of all I'm American, and I'll have to convert that to pounds (let's see, 2-3, carry the 2, divide by...carry the 1...). Like 6 pounds or so of onion, so let's see why would 2 guys, buy 6 pounds of onion....The most obvious thing to me is they both work at a restaurant that needed onions. I know, i'm brilliant (cheers!! abiogeek is so cool!!), no stop. I'll be here all week, be sure to tip your waiters, and waitresses. Good night.

Answer 3

Onions have a variety of medicinal effects. Early American settlers used wild onions to treat colds, coughs, and asthma, and to repel insects. In Chinese medicine, onions have been used to treat angina, coughs, bacterial infections, and breathing problems.

I am consuming 2-3 onions a day. It's difficult to eat it raw so I use a blender. I blend it with 250ml fresh milk and 2 bananas or mangoes to taste, and honey biscuits to removed strong odour.

It helps me a lot on my sinusitis & allergy. For 2 years now I'm no longer dependent on synthetic drugs, I feel more healthy, & I don't worry anymore on side effects.

My good Indian friend told me its aprodisiac, yes its true.

Answer 4

I went through a lot of onions in the past couple of weeks. I made French Onion soup which uses a LOT, and I put a bunch in with a beef roast, then I made onion rings, and I sauteed a bunch in butter with mushrooms for a sauce when we had ribeye steaks. I used them in smaller amounts with salads and veggies, too.

Answer 5

onions do lots of things
they are an ingredient in most cooking
the people in front of you may have been making onion soup
or they may work for a restaurant or soup kitchen

Answer 6

onions are used in Indian Curries and many Italian Sauces and many other foods to. indians (mostly Punjabies) used to eat it in salads.

we indians use upto 2-3 onions in our each vegetable

Answer 7

You can eat onions in salad, when you bake meat, in soup, pie. You can do a lot of things, gives food special taste and smell

Answer 8

Also - you can take an onion - peel it -
put it in an empty pickle jar -

then open it and take a few deep 'smells' prior to bedtime

supposed to encourage sleep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

guess it worked - huh?

Answer 9

Everything.

Slice them very fine and put sparingly in sandwiches with cheese or meat etc.

Slice a bit thicker and fry in a little olive oil and add tomato or capsicum, some sweet chili sauce (look out, it might burn). Serve as a garnish with meat or omelet or tofu.

Chop very fine and add to coleslaw, chop and add to mince meat for patties.

Chop and boil with meat for soup (leave out the meat if you don't eat it) and add lots of chopped vegetables (carrot, cabbage, celery, zucchini etc).

Answer 10

onions good for a base when cooking curry,chilli stuff because its slightly sweet and adds taste....and no its not the new banana