White Onion vs. Yellow Onion

[pigboy]

Rule is!!!-Cook with Yellow onions. White onions eat raw(burgers,salads.etc.)

[Blonde huntress]

Yellow onion

[ra61hunting]

Rule is!!!-Cook with Yellow onions. White onions eat raw(burgers,salads.etc.)

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[TXBlueEyes]

I also cook with yellow most of the time. I like purple if I am eating one raw or making salsa and guacamole.

[Txbownut]

Yellow sweets (1015's, Vidalia's, Noondays) are usually available from spring through fall and are lower in pyruvic acid (5%or less) and higher in water content making them sweeter and generally having a shorter shelf life than others. They are usually larger in size and lighter yellow in color than what we call a "medium" or "storage" yellow. When you cook with a sweet yellow onion, they tend to caramelize better giving your fajitas or whatever a sweeter flavor. Darker colored, smaller yellow onions tend to be "storage" onions. They may have been stored for months because they have a lower water content and higher pyruvic acid (10-15%) and hold up better. The longer they have been stored, the hotter they tend to be. White onions tend to be on the hotter side because of higher acid content. Reds can be sweet or hot as fire depending on the variety and season. Italian sweet reds are usually very mild although they are not usually marketed as well as the sweet yellow varieties. There are now some sweet yellow onions from Peru that are available through the winter months here that are also very good. That concludes our onion lesson for the day.

[txsteele]

Yellow.....then Red.....then White