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Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: DARTHPHALL on April 17, 2005, 09:45 AM

Title: Onions ????????????
Post by: DARTHPHALL on April 17, 2005, 09:45 AM

I was wondering what sort of onions everyone uses for their curry gravy/base mix.

Title: Re: Onions ????????????
Post by: ghanna on April 17, 2005, 10:00 AM

Hi ,Darthphall
I buy mine from the Indian stores.
Thanks
ghanna

Title: Re: Onions ????????????
Post by: curryqueen on April 17, 2005, 03:17 PM

Hi Darthphall,  I always use spanish onions because they are sweeter.

Title: Re: Onions ????????????
Post by: joe2 on April 17, 2005, 03:42 PM

For me, an onion is an onion, is an onion, is a .........
I buy mine usually from Somerfeld, where they have been under 30p a pound for years now.
I've tried Spanish, blue, big, small......, but never noticed any difference at all in the curry.

For those who have read Bruce's Curry House article saying that restaurants use only Spanish onions, - well where he got that info from bewilders me.

Title: Re: Onions ????????????
Post by: curryqueen on April 17, 2005, 04:34 PM

Plenty of restaurants that I have been to use spanish onions, I have seen them and for what it's worth I buy a sack at a time for ?6 from a local market. 

Title: Re: Onions ????????????
Post by: pete on April 17, 2005, 06:51 PM

Quote from: joe2 on April 17, 2005, 03:42 PM

For me, an onion is an onion, is an onion, is a .........

I agree with Joe.
One of the reasons I got into a restaurant kitchen was because my fruit and veg man was making a delivery to the restaurant at the time.
It was just an ordinairy sack of onions.
A bit smaller than a tennis ball.
The same ones as I buy from his shop

Title: Re: Onions ????????????
Post by: Mark J on April 17, 2005, 08:15 PM

My local uses standard white onions, I have tried spanish as well, cant really say I noticed the difference

Title: Re: Onions ????????????
Post by: merrybaker on April 17, 2005, 10:12 PM

The cheapest.? Isn't that what the restaurants would use??