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> If you think hundreds of years worth of collective professional experience is wrong and you're right, well, maybe you're not. Often, but that’s not what is h

by moksly 5y ago

> If you think hundreds of years worth of collective professional experience is wrong and you're right, well, maybe you're not. Often, but that’s not what is happening here. Here you have real world cooks and the collective experience of them telling recipe writers that you can’t caramelise onions in 5-10 minutes. In your own video examples, the onions aren’t caramelised, they aren’t even cooked. You can tell because you can still see the green/white colour of the onions. This is what they should look like: http://rachel-cuisine.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ob_598def_67a317f403634e3a863338980a1d6e82-2.jpg http://rachel-cuisine.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ob_598de... What you’ve made is halfcooked onions that have been fried in butter and sugar. Which may taste perfectly fine, but also nothing like the real thing.

lambdasquirrel 5y ago
> Here you have real world cooks and the collective experience of them This. There's plenty of people backing this up.
notacoward 5y ago
Cosigned. Fried is not the same as fully cooked. This is important to me because my gut is just fine with fully cooked onions but ... well, let's just say "not" otherwise. Fully cooking onions to the proper transparency (with just the tiniest bit of color) is a 20-minute process, and actual caramelization takes twice that. I suspect that the reason most cooks lie is that they're not the ones doing it. To them, cooked onions are an ingredient that a spouse or assistant put in a bowl for them while they were still deciding which homey anecdote to fill out their "recipe" with. Peeling, chopping, and basic preparation are for the little people.
SamBam 5y ago
> Here you have real world cooks and the collective experience of them telling recipe writers that you can’t caramelise onions in 5-10 minutes. This is backwards. It's really the other way around here. What you have is real-world cooks and chefs, with all their collective experience, giving recipes correctly, but using the word "caramelized," and a bunch of people telling them that that isn't technically what "caramelized" means. The vast majority of recipes involve cooking onions for 10-20 minutes, not caramelizing them for 45. The "mistake" in all these thousands of recipes is simply the word, not that none of these people know how to cook, or are deliberately lying to you about how to caramelize am onion.

by moksly 5y ago

lambdasquirrel 5y ago

> Here you have real world cooks and the collective experience of them This. There's plenty of people backing this up.

notacoward 5y ago

Cosigned. Fried is not the same as fully cooked. This is important to me because my gut is just fine with fully cooked onions but ... well, let's just say "not" otherwise. Fully cooking onions to the proper transparency (with just the tiniest bit of color) is a 20-minute process, and actual caramelization takes twice that. I suspect that the reason most cooks lie is that they're not the ones doing it. To them, cooked onions are an ingredient that a spouse or assistant put in a bowl for them while they were still deciding which homey anecdote to fill out their "recipe" with. Peeling, chopping, and basic preparation are for the little people.

SamBam 5y ago

> Here you have real world cooks and the collective experience of them telling recipe writers that you can’t caramelise onions in 5-10 minutes. This is backwards. It's really the other way around here. What you have is real-world cooks and chefs, with all their collective experience, giving recipes correctly, but using the word "caramelized," and a bunch of people telling them that that isn't technically what "caramelized" means. The vast majority of recipes involve cooking onions for 10-20 minutes, not caramelizing them for 45. The "mistake" in all these thousands of recipes is simply the word, not that none of these people know how to cook, or are deliberately lying to you about how to caramelize am onion.