Onions

i always keep half onion in a little covered pot in the fridge - no problems over many years - just scaremongering.

Is there an onion marketing board putting put this rubbish to get us to throw away our halves? We need to remember that a bit of bacteria enforces our immune system & I have never seen an inquest report that a person died by onion poisoning. Mind you a couple of years ago My OH informed me that I had a lot of onions stored in the garage - they were tulip bulbs!

There are lots of folk takes about onions including keep a cut onion in your fridge to absorb smells and keep it fresh but don't ask me how that's meant to work. My grandmother, by turns, would extol the onion for its virtue in a sick room (absorbing the germs) and would warn us to avoid onions at all costs because the are seething with germs! We just carried on eating onions and have survived so far

I have always stored part-used onion in the fridge - wrapped of course. I'm still here and so are all of the family, haven't killed anyone off with it yet. It's all tosh I say! We also use other cut veg eg peppers that have gone a bit sloppy on the edges and aren't crisp enough for salads. Trim off the edge and use them in casseroles or soup. (And I trim the mould off cheese )

I also keep unused parts of onions and other veg in the fridge. I bought some cheddar cheese packed in waxed paper from Waitrose which said "once opened consume within 7 days". By wrapping it in the same paper after use I kept it for three months. I don't eat much cheddar cheese.

Before I believe or pass on anything like this I always check either on snopes or just put the general info in my search engine. Nearly always a hoax

If supermarkets did not insist on uniform size onions one could buy smaller onions and this problem would not arise. An onion farmer here in East Anglia has had to pack up after many years because most of his crop did not conform to the "right" size.

I reckon it's darling daughter at the bottom of this.
According to her food is dangerous one second after its sell by date..

Reminds me, she's coming on Saturday. Will have to hide throw out all these highly dangerous foods in the fridge

Perhaps I should have a small fridge in the garage for all these hazardous substances?

I don't know if any one has mentioned that you shouldn't keep garlic in the fridge, since once it gets really cold it starts to grow.

I have kept half onion in fridge with cling film round it ,and suffered no ill effects .but having said that I don't leave it in the fridge longer than 2 days .

This reminded me of a conversation with SO a few weeks ago, he had found an open bottle of vinegar in a cupboard in my kitchen. He asked if it should be in the fridge, after I stopped laughing I gave him a little talk on food preservatives.
Later that day I saw a use by date on a bag of salt,,, salt,,,, how mad is that.
Just a ploy by manufacturers to make us buy more.
Tomato Ketchup is the one that really bugs me, it contains, Vinegar, Sugar and Salt and has been around for hundreds if not more years.

I never have half onions. I buy small ones and always use a whole one.

It sound a lot of rubbish. I also use half an onion particulary a red onion which I slice into sandwiches or such. Like "Kittylester" does.

I find a cut onion in the fridge keeps quite well for a few days often i just put them cut side down on a saucer. It gets a bit dried out and will eventually go green and furry. One of those things you discover in the back of the fridge weeks months later.

I usually do that as well now durhamjen, since I was forever finding half onions wrapped in clingfilm lurking at the bottom of the veg drawer in the fridge - then throwing them out.

Nelliemoser

I'm amazed I'm still alive.

A few bacteria build up your resistance

ps but green and furry or black is probably a step too far

My Nana used to slice raw onions, cover them with sugar, leave for the sugar to draw the moisture out of the onions, making a sort of syrup.
We were given this for coughs, colds, congestion etc.
It actually tastes okay, a bit like caramelised onions (which it is I suppose) and it works!
Nana said it was because the onion juices absorbed the bacteria from the throat and disposed of them naturally!
She also used to eat lettuce roots as an aid to sleep, low doses of laudanum in lettuce roots apparently!

Not lettuce roots, lettuce stems, right down at the base of the plant!

Lettuce has a long tradition of sending people to sleep. It used to have the reputation too of making girls drop their knickers guard and leading to unintended pregnancies. I thought there was a bit in one of shakespeare's plays where a maid falls pregnant, and someone comments, "' . . .and she only went down the garden to cut a lettuce", which is greeted with laughter by other characters, but I can't find it.

I did find this from QI, though:-
"- The thing that is long, begins with "L", and gets you horny, sleepy and pregnant is lettuce. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, described the opiate properties of lettuce, as did Beatrix Potter in Peter Rabbit. Lettuce is soporific, and Peter nearly ends up in Mrs. McGregor's rabbit pie because he falls asleep after eating too much lettuce. Lettuce has seen been bred to be less soporific. Wild lettuce however contains tropane alkaloid, which is also in cocaine. Americans did try to sell this lettuce under the names of "L'Opium" and "Lettucene", but most of it was made out of ordinary garden lettuce. Lettuce should not be fed to rabbits because it upsets their stomachs. Victorians picnickers wrapped lettuce around butter to keep the butter fresh."

Have a look at healthybliss.net
Very interesting. Don't think I'll risk keeping a bit of onion in the fridge!
But of course whatever you feel!!

As I have bad arthritis in my fingers and find onions difficult to peel and cut I use frozen ones and in casseroles etc you really cannot tell the difference. And no halves left over in the fridge