No, I know there's a difference, what I'm saying is that any recipe that says "caramelize the onions for 20 minutes" means cook the onions for 20 minutes. I ga

No, I know there's a difference, what I'm saying is that any recipe that says "caramelize the onions for 20 minutes" means cook the onions for 20 minutes. I gather you think very poorly of chefs and recipe writers, but, really, no recipe-writer tests a recipe by cooking the onions for an hour and then writes "20 minutes" to try and win some speed sweepstakes.