[ SECRET POST #4150 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4150 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Indian cookbooks and LIES

[(Anonymous)]

Okay this seems really random but I hate it when Indian cookbooks tell you to caramelize a bunch of onions and claim that it'll take 20 minutes. LIES. It can take twice that amount of time depending on how many you're trying to caramelize. If you try to do it in 20 minutes, you're going to burn your onions.

And don't start with that bullshit of adding sugar to your onions to speed up the process, either.

Re: Indian cookbooks and LIES

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe they don't actually mean to full-on caramelize?

Re: Indian cookbooks and LIES

[(Anonymous)]

They often say "until golden brown", which takes a longer than 20 minutes.

Re: Indian cookbooks and LIES

[(Anonymous)]

I was reading something somewhere about how caramelizing onions takes a while and most recipes - not just Indian ones - really low-ball the amount of time required. I don't remember if the article speculated as to why. I know that just because a recipe is printed in a book or posted online doesn't mean it's perfect, thoroughly tested, and without typos, but the time given caramelizing onions specifically appears to be wrong a lot of the time.

Re: Indian cookbooks and LIES

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure I read the same article at some point. In this particular case, I don't think it's a situation where recipes aren't getting tested. I think they're deliberately low-balling the estimated time because they know that admitting it takes upwards of 30 minutes just for ONE step of the recipe is going to scare a lot of people off.

Re: Indian cookbooks and LIES

[bur]

My god, when I caramelize onions for french onion soup that shit takes at least two hours to get to the level of golden brown I desire.

Re: Indian cookbooks and LIES

[(Anonymous)]

This is a really useful thread. I had no idea about this, just thought I was Doing It Rong. Thanks, OP!