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I have picked wild onions that almost taste like they have sugar on them right out of the ground.
Put a Whole onion in the microwave for 5 minutes or so. Cook until soft.
They get pretty sweet.
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Walla Walla are sweet onions.
Secret to sweet onions is low sulfur soil. Toombs Co Georgia is down below the fall line in the. Beginning of the coastal plain. Soil changes from clay to sand which was once ocean bottom. (Ancient climate change raised ocean)
Visalia onions are the best!
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Used to put nasty old white onions in the cook stove oven wrapped in foil.
In a little bit, they were sweet and tasty.
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Truly sweet onions don't ship nor store well. Also, the rankness of a Vidalia is in part because they've been grown in the same ground, just about, for all these years. Order some sets of the same varieties and grow them in good home garden soil. You'll cry when they're gone.
Texas 1015Y is a good blend of sweet that'll still keep a few months. Dixondale is your source.
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I grow Walla Walla here in Northern Vermont. They are very sweet and grow baseball to softball size. Only downside is they don't store that well. Eat them within a couple months after you pick them. Keeping in the fridge helps to keep them that long.
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My regular runs thru GA
50 lbs of vidalias
25 lbs of raw peanuts
If in May-June, 2 bushel of peaches, get home eat a bushel, peel and freeze the other bushel’s worth
Make homemade beer batter dipped vidalia onion rings, soups, chili, burgers, use up almost 50 lbs all winter
Do home boiled peanuts
Always like to hit up Carrol’s Sausage in Middle Ga too, it’s like hell for vegans in there. Bring my Yeti, get several lbs of sausage, smoked and Boudin, they vac seal for you
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Had baked Vidalias with our cottage pie just minutes ago. Rubbed with olive oil, sprinkled with seasoned salt, wrapped in foil, then baked. Deeeelish.
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If a person could cut into them at the store to check it could take the "depends" out of it. If it's truly sweet, I pay for it; if it isn't, it stays. Don’t you have a pocket knife?
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In defense of the OP
with regard to red (purple) sweet onions
I’ve had them mostly sweeet. Like at Golden Corral they got them on the taco bar section. They are good
I went over to Gordon Commercial Food Distributors, and wanted to get a bag of red sweet onions. I knew better than to ask one of the humanoids working there.
Got them home...them mfers would set yo woods on fire. Dayum.
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Been there. Rude surprise for sure😂😂
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In defense of the OP
with regard to red (purple) sweet onions
I’ve had them mostly sweeet. Like at Golden Corral they got them on the taco bar section. They are good
I went over to Gordon Commercial Food Distributors, and wanted to get a bag of red sweet onions. I knew better than to ask one of the humanoids working there.
Got them home...them mfers would set yo woods on fire. Dayum. Purple onions often have that cilantro soapy taste to me.
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Roast a Vidalia in the smoker for a few hrs...just oooozes sweetness Make a foil cup with a soup bowl and plop a half Vadilia in it with a big chunk of butter on top. A little seasoning of choice and line them up around the edge of the grill. Keep an eye on them and remove when tender. Ain’t nothin better with a rib-eye.
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"Probably 10-15s"
10-15 means October 15. It's the harvest date, Not the harvest date. It’s the planting date. Onions grow through the winter, harvest in Spring. Not really such a thing as 1015 onions anymore and hasn’t been for several years. People just got in the habit of calling every large sweet onion a 1015 onion.
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Sautéing em’ concentrates the natural sugars in em’ and they’ll eventually caramelize and turn golden brown...they’re pretty sweet then. Love em’. yum... speaking of sweet onions... I think I seen a few down in the miscellaneous topic... NSFW.....
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Sautéing em’ concentrates the natural sugars in em’ and they’ll eventually caramelize and turn golden brown...they’re pretty sweet then. Love em’. yum... speaking of sweet onions... I think I seen a few down in the miscellaneous topic... NSFW..... The odds are you seen some real peaches and melons down there too.
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There are some truly sweet ones out there.
If they were grown in this dirt we have they would taste hot like peppers.
And don't even think of growing radishes here.
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In defense of the OP
with regard to red (purple) sweet onions
I’ve had them mostly sweeet. Like at Golden Corral they got them on the taco bar section. They are good
I went over to Gordon Commercial Food Distributors, and wanted to get a bag of red sweet onions. I knew better than to ask one of the humanoids working there.
Got them home...them mfers would set yo woods on fire. Dayum. Like most other things Italian.....................including me........................ Italian torpedo onions are yummy right out the garden, the dirt warshed off'n it, and sliced thin on a nice liver sammich. Or a homemade pizza.
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All [bleep] onions are ‘sweet’, whenst one sautées or caramelizes them properly.
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