The smell of onions - help!

agreenmess

Hello,

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me. Last week I cut up around 5 Kilo's of onions from the lottie to put in the freezer so they are available all during winter. My dilemma being that my freezer now smells very strongly of onions, I didn't worry to much but I took out some HM bread for the other half's sandwiches today and the bread reeked of onions!

As I still have quite allot of onions still in the freezer and I will do probably till next season, is there any way to either stop the smell or curb the smell?? I'm willing to try anything as I will be growing more onions next year so will be going through all this again.

The onions are sealed in those zip type seal-able freezer bags and my freezer is the normal under cupboard shelf freezer.

Thanks in advance for any help

Caterina

Try putting a bowl of bicarbonate of soda in the freezer, it should absorb the worst of the smell.

Also, double-seal the onions in an extra ziplock bag and do the same for other stuff you put in the freezer.

HTH

SailorSam

Once the bicarb has done it's job put a few drops of essential oils or vanilla extract something like that in the freezer.

arbroath_lass

Not sure why you are freezing the onions? If you dry them they should keep for months.

http://frugalliving.about.com/od/presevingfoods/ht/How_to_Store_Onions.htm

agreenmess

Hi thanks for the reply, I am freezing them because I have no-where to store them, I have been told on several occassions and read on several forums that a shed is not a suitable place to store produce and thats the only thing I have to store, well apart from the freezer!

Will give the bicarb a go and double seal everything.

Thanks again!