Originally published at: Throw out your onions | Boing Boing
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Nahhhh, just treat them like meat, cook thoroughly, clean all surfaces well afterwards.
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If you have a reliable local farmer’s market, now would be a good time to shop there.
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I was just discussing this with the mum. we are blessed with a number of produce stands and farmer’s market here, or a short hop to another island. most (if not all) of that produce is grown in Homestead, on the mainland, in the rich soil that is lowlands along the eastern edge of the Everglades. just need to make sure the onions in the kitchen came from one of those sellers
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Onion Johnnies
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Presumably organically-grown onions are OK?
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Yeah, we never use raw onions but cook/sauté/sweat them in a ton of recipes. Plus you can’t even use onions without peeling at least a couple layers. Is the salmonella impregnated in the flesh? Maybe the problem is cross contamination.
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I’m crying for those onions, so miss-understood.
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Just confirmed my vidalias are actually from Vidalia, GA, so I think I’m good. And about to make a cheesesteak.
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If you need help eating it, well you know where to find me…
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Exactly. Just heat them enough to kill the salmonella.
French onion soup is a good way to get rid of loads of onions in one go. Delicious. Even deliciouser the day after making it. Freezes fine and is still nice after thawing(though needs some extra re-seasoning in my experience, after thawing).
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What if I just soaked them in ivermectin?
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What the article fails to specify is, throw them at whom?
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If you can’t tell where your food comes from, don’t buy or eat it.
FTFY.
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It comes from the supermarket.
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Not necessarily, no.
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I’ll be doing a stew tomorrow, which involves throwing in onions and letting them dissolve into flavor over two hours of simmering.
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Very true, especially in the “cut the corners” organic where they use green manure directly on the plants, and splashes for rain/watering spread salmonella up the plants… though I think this probably came from the bath where they clean the dirt off veg that grows underground.
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It could also be from irrigation water drawn downstream from animal feed lots. 
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I was just thinking about what to make for lunch. FO soup it is.
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