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Why Do Recipe Writers Lie and Lie About How Long It Takes to Caramelize Onions?

• cafard 12y ago
  Bravo! I thought there was something wrong with my technique, but never knew what it could be.
  • Eiriksmal 12y ago
    All your life you're just thinking, "I'M AN IDIOT, WHY WON'T THESE BROWN!?" and then, one September's day, you find out it was all lies... the entire time. Lies all the way down.
• kjs3 12y ago
  I'd always sort of assumed it was because the recipe writers had magnificent Viking or KitchenAid prosumer ranges with 15K+ BTU burners, not pokey 8K-9K BTU burners like my more modest kitchen sports.
• ender89 12y ago
  in the words of my charmingly southern step-grandma, "I just stick 'em in the microwave for ten minutes. Best way."