Why does it taste good starter pack.

It makes the onions fry quicker in oil!

Honestly, salt is my secret ingredient. Way more than anyone else is brave enough to put in, but it makes things delicious.

My mom, who was a self admitted not-good cook would start these on the stove a bit before dad was set to come home. He’d be hungry but smelled too good and he would finish cooking for us

There's a common joke about that. It goes something like: "A [Ukrainian] starts frying onion and garlic in a pan and only then starts thinking about what they want to make."

[Ukrainian] can be substituted for most other countries, to be honest.

But, to be real, garlic shouldn't be fried for that long IMO, so I'd only put in the garlic about 30s before I was ready to start adding all the other ingredients. But, with the onions, I've actually started onions more than 30 minutes before figuring out what else I wanted to make. That way they have a chance to get good and caramelized. That doesn't work for every recipe, but it works for a lot of them.

You forgot the garlic

You mean a mirepoix?

That's pretty fair. I generally get a pack of dinner rolls, parker-house or whatever cook them ahead and let them rest under a tea towel.

An appetiser is the ultimate time saver, because someone ALWAYS shows up starving.

Is that because it doesn't have a nose?

A cursed existence

Skill issue

For me, I dislike (and as a child, hated) the texture of onions. Onion as a flavour has always been fine, it was biting them that was the problem.

Caramelize the onions a bit and blend half into a paste, ask which one tastes bad. If they answer that only the chunky onion is bad, teach them about texture preferences.

They taste different when cooked.

they don't like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.

I don't think the distinction between "taste" and "flavour" is the right way to frame it. Raw onion on its own can be overwhelming. If you eat a hamburger with raw onion on it, the amount of raw onion per bite will be pretty small, and it will be one taste in a whole bunch of other tastes. Your kids probably wouldn't like eating pure salt, or pure pepper either. But, food with some salt tastes great.

Having said that, fried onions are a whole different game. After 5 minutes the onion loses a lot of its potency and gets a bit sweet. After 30 minutes it's basically a very slightly pungent candy. For a French Onion Soup, you can cook them for up to 2 hours before they're ready. A pot that's full to the brim of raw onions reduces down to a thin layer at the bottom, and they taste more like gummy worms than onions at that point.

I love French Onion Soup, and occasionally make it. I'd make it more, it's just that slicing up more than a kilogram of onions is a whole process. It's so difficult it makes me cry every time I do it.

Coward. I use both. And then salt the fuck out of it. Every meal takes a year off my life, but fuck if I'm not enjoying the ones I'm left with

Why "instead" ?