Freeze Your Onions Safely To Preserve And Enjoy Them All Year! Onions are a “ready-at-once” crop in that, like garlic, you harvest the bulbs all in one shot. They preserve well, but not forever, and certainly not until next harvest. In this video, let’s look at how we can freeze raw onions to preserve this delicious root crop to carry us through winter until we’re ready to harvest fresh organic onions from our garden yet again.
Bonus!! Three PROVEN strategies to stop the dreaded eye burn and crying when cutting your onions. My top 3 secrets on how I can cut dozens of onions without shedding a single tear!
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Maybe I am the only person in the world who cuts their onions on the (cold, and turned off) stove with the exhaust fan above it turned on? It sucks the airborne 'fumes' away from my face and out of the kitchen. I never have irritated eyes cutting with the cooking exhaust fan on. Try it yourself.
I freeze the slices separated 1st on a cookie sheet… then bag them in 1 cup portions in vacuum bags. Bell peppers too. So easy to pull them out and throw straight from the freezer …. in to the skillet for fajitas. The texture is soft… (no crisp snap/al dente) but serves quiet well and delish.
Great tips Jeff. I never thought about cooling the onions first, I bet that helps a lot!
I never knew you could freeze I tried but cut mine to small will definitely cut larger and valcumn pack thank you
Interesting, never knew onions were freezer friendly, thanks!
Tip for tear free onion cutting! My grandma taught me to just run some cold water over the onion for about 10 secs.
Thank you for this excellent video. Just found your channel while searching on storing onions and I am now subscribed and about to binge watch previous videos
Great video, I was on the hunt of how to make onions last. Thank you !
Doesnt the info leaflet say do not vacuum seal onions, garlic and mushrooms?
Food saver says not to vacuum seal onions because they give off a gas
that will ruin the product.
Excellent video. Thanks
🙂 question, why are you using bread knife to cut onions? Is there a significant to this? Just curious.
Great vlog though. 🙂
Hello sir i am student from India.. Does this need be freez or just in fridge would be enough.. I am going to purchase cheap fridge which probably didn't have freezer, so does this trick works with fridge.
Love it
You are da BOMB! YES!
As the dim witted person I am, I froze my onions without cutting them, right in the bag from the produce section. I took one out of the freezer yesterday and I was about to eat it, only to find that it’s gone slightly mushy. Would you say it’s still safe to eat?
How do you keep everything in the freezer from smelling and tasting like onions? My Mom put onions in the freezer and we ended up with onion-flavored ice cream. YUCK!
How about showing them after thawing
To avoid crying when cutting onions, I soaked the onion in very cold water before cutting or I put it in the freezer for 1 minute or 2 and it always worked.
Awesome!!
But when talking it out feels watery
Here's my no 1 tip on onion cutting with no tears……. Always cut the root end 1st. No need to do anything else.
What do you mean in a regular freezer? Not a deep freezer?
I froze diced onions once, and he was right, they turned to mush!!!
Why not freeze them whole instead?
Nice
Hi! What heat sealer is that?
Chomp! Chomp! Chomp! There goes your tomatoes! Thanks for a good video. Have question about root end you plant in the spring. Do you just let it stay dry until almost time to plant THEN put it in water to grow roots and then plant? I can't imagine putting it in water to grow roots months ahead of planting date. ??? Thanks for helping all of us. Jesus bless.