Storing Home Grown Onions

[mkmason2002]

Never use a plastic cutting board as they hold bacteria.

The dark lines on the board have bacteria in them. Wooden boards dry out better because they are porous. Google it, you'll see I'm right. I studied this in nursing school years ago.

[haluakhan]

oh that was painful~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[badgirl44654]

If you want diced onions you can purchase a handy onion chopper at the hardware store for around $15, would make freezing onions so much easier. After diced lay on layers of wax paper on a cookie sheet in the freezer and after frozen solid transfer to the freezer bag(s). No breaking apart onions, and can be added frozen when cooking just about anything.

[bd1rn]

After you chop them place them on a cookie sheet and freeze then put in bags they will not be stuck together as bad or a all. Just a suggestion. Thanks for the videos.

[1fanger]

Try keeping all your onion trimmings, carrot tops, just about everything that isn`t spoiled and freeze it. when you`ve accumulated alot, make vegetable stock.

[rosuabsc]

Hi, I take my onions by the greens and take a big bunch and tie a string around them and hang them in my basement for the winter, when I want an onion we just remove one from the bunch. They store beautifully this way. Of course our basement isn't heated, more like a cold storage.

[TheChocolateBanana]

Interesting how you don't have any videos of your own demonstrating you being a douche bag, yet you are. might wanna get on that, "wehugtrees"

That's a cute name, btw

[TheChocolateBanana]

Those are horrible knife techniques... unsafe and inefficient. There's a much safer/efficient way to dice/slice/Julianne an onion.

You're liable to cut yourself very easily cutting like that

[WeHugTrees2]

interesting that you have no vids of your own demonstrating knife techniques. Nothing unsafe at all about the way the knife is used in this vid.

[Omnignosis]

Green onions are good.

Grow Vidalia ones now!

[007vauxhall]

Brilliant, I Love the good old Onion!

[cwaj]

Really Good!

One thing though...

Compost! Ya might of suggested to Newbies.

Compost the peals...I'm a huge supported of composting.

BTW - Was your soil sand, hard, etc...Under trees, or full sun?

[btigtime2]

never stop

[katiatomsk]

Onions dehydrate very well.

[Hoffa3381]

Always like home gardening videos. Back to basics... Tks!

[CombatWarrior420]

1:16 now do replant the whole onion or do you cut the stem off and plant that

[survivalistboards]

CombatWarrior420 - replant the whole onion, just like it is.

Also,,, I have cut the top off an onion, thrown it in the garden as compost and it started to root.

[spiderpig85]

onions are one of the hardier edible plants and will grown in just about any condition you can imagine, and some you won't.

i remember storing onions in our basement in a cardboard box when i was a kid and they sprouted through the bottom of the box and started to grow in the small amount of dirt on our basement floor. They are quite amazing sometimes.

[talltreehill7]

hey just wondering ...but did those onions make you cry or were they milder than commercial onions ?

[romeoneverdies]

@talltreehill7 just dont blink :P

if i remember correcly when they start vaporing (crying thing ) its no longer fresh but still edible

but i may be wrong

[SSanf]

Use your food processor with the slicing blade and stick those babies in the dehydrator!

[karl9x]

Nice sized bulbs on those onions.

[CombustTheChronic]

u should listen to ur wife n give her credit when she says shit even if u dont care

[iSurvivalSkills]

Great vid thank you!

[dasgemuse]

let them hang in your cellar in pantyhose

[carveawoodeneye]

mmmm cheese steak!!

[mrzack888]

wonderful, makes me want to cry

[cdltpx]

If you place your onions in the refrigerator and cut them with a sharp knife when they are cold you will not have the problem of tears. I can't tell you why but they will not burn your eyes. JIC you haven't heard this tip?

[seka1986]

I eat onions raw like an apple.

[ZZOTH]

how long will those keep in the freezer? also, make sure you tell the viewers how much a gallon of onions like that wouldve cost you at a grocery store. let the viewers know how much money you just saved! :)

[1971emily]

couple of tips. If you spread them on a cookie sheet to freeze, then take them out and break them up and then into a bag it's easier to get them out when you want them. you can also dehydrate them and not waste the money on electricity every month. that heart of the onion isn't bad either, I never get rid of it, we just eat it, doesn't hurt the taste at all. If you store the onions in the dark, they also won't sprout so readily.

[MadBadVoodo]

Five Stars!!

[blankthree]

the heart is still good for cooking if you remove it before eating.

[EbolaV1rus]

I do this with bell peppers too. I also dehydrate the onions. Those are nice onions, do you remember the variety?

God Bless.

[BryanShotYou]

Onions are delicious.