On Sun, 4 May 2014 16:27:46 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>I remember seeing on some cooking show that you are always supposed to cut
>off one end of the onion if you were not going to use all of it. If you
>didn't, it would continue to grow. I can't remember if they said the root
>or top end. I think they said root. But... I almost always cut off both
>ends and put the rest in the fridge. I would only leave the peel on if I
>were in a super hurry to get a piece of onion. I have done this when making
>a sandwich in a hurry. Wash, cut a slice, just removing the peel from the
>slice then putting the onion in a plastic bag in the fridge to deal with
>later.
>
>But lately, I cut off both ends, peel and put the rest of the onion in a
>plastic bag but... The onion continues to seem to grow from the top end.
>It doesn't form a green sprout but pushes up from the middle until the
>middle is sticking up. Makes it a tad hard to get good slices but is not a
>problem for chunks or dices.

I don't cut off either end of the onion. I'd never heard about doing
that until you brought it up. And my onions keep just fine. Maybe
someone on some cooking show was repulsed by a bit of the center of
the onion protuding from the center (like an onion penis). Probably a
god-botherer.

Doris