> 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 backwar

> 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.