Timeline for How can I peel pearl onions quickly?
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| Mar 24, 2013 at 0:30 | comment | added | Cascabel♦ | @AtticCrazy I don't think anyone else here was doing what you describe, getting only the small core. If the onions were boiled enough but not too long, a gentle squeeze should separate skin from onion, not onion from onion, especially if you squeeze from the root end and push the whole onion out the other end. | |
| Mar 23, 2013 at 23:11 | comment | added | user17460 | The piece they have all neglected to mention is that after you remove the onions from the ice bath, you MUST cut the root end off FIRST before squeezing the onion out. If you don't, all you end up with is the internal (very small) core of the onion, still attached to the root. Removing the root ensures you obtain the entire pearl onion from its "sleeve". | |
| Dec 15, 2010 at 8:11 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | It really works! A few of them were troublesome, but you can extract them from the skin by crushing the onion from the sides with your fingers just little, but don't do it too much. A few will need trimming to get the ends off. | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 4:22 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | After all this, the markets didn't have pearl onions today; a grocer at a Wegmans thinks they may be a seasonal vegetable around here (but this page indicates that they should be in season now). | |
| Aug 12, 2010 at 17:13 | vote | accept | Goodbye Stack Exchange | ||
| Aug 12, 2010 at 15:29 | comment | added | Eliza | This is the technique I use- it works perfectly | |
| Aug 12, 2010 at 12:20 | comment | added | Joe | I learned that trick after peeling a few pounds of them one year for thanksgiving. | |
| Aug 12, 2010 at 5:00 | history | answered | joyjit | CC BY-SA 2.5 |