White onion
Allium cepa · Allium
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The white onion is the pure-white member of the family — a round bulb wrapped in thin, papery white skin over crisp, bright-white flesh, with a sharp, clean, slightly more pungent raw bite than a yellow onion. It is the onion of Mexican cooking, diced raw into salsas, tacos and ceviche, and the choice for white sauces and pickles where a golden onion would muddy the colour.
Picking a good onedrag
Just curedSprouted and soft
Firm and paperyBuy itAnything: raw in a salad, or cooked down.
SkinPapery and dry, flakes lifting
NeckDry and papery, no give
WeightFirm all over, good heft
SmellFaint dry onion, nothing sharp
These cues are Onion's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
90%
Edible part
110 g · skin and ends off
122 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 5× longer than the counter.
65–75%
Humidity
Open and moving
Airflow