Storing shop purchased onions

JIL

You can buy bags of frozen onions in Farmfoods and other shops.  Saves chopping them from fresh and then you wont need to store that many.  

littlemoney

Freezer is rather full at the moment with home grown fruit, and other shop purchases. As the fruit gees used I will have to look at frozen onions. In the meantime it sounds like garage storage using knotted tights.

Does anyone know how long they might store for in a garage or is that a how long is a piece of string question. I  want to reduce supermarket visits as much as possible, but don't want to overbuy and waste food.

Apintplease

littlemoney said:

Freezer is rather full at the moment with home grown fruit, and other shop purchases. As the fruit gees used I will have to look at frozen onions. In the meantime it sounds like garage storage using knotted tights.

Does anyone know how long they might store for in a garage or is that a how long is a piece of string question. I  want to reduce supermarket visits as much as possible, but don't want to overbuy and waste food.

If your garage is dry - ie no damp, and there is a good air supply, then storing as I have posted above, onions should last for months

You need to make sure you are only storing dry firm onions which have no mould on them  - black dust that comes off in your hands. The tights method works as you can hang them up and just cut off as you need one. Another way is going to the supermarket and begging their cardboard apple trays that the individual apples sit on. You just don't want the fruit or veg you are storing to touch

Other storage ways are freezing, which you can to in small tubs like yoghurt tubs - very easy with a food processor, or dry them - expensive

If you fo have a food processor and like dishes like curry and bolognese etc, then whizzing them down into mush and freezing into blocks is a good way to go. As the onions are part of the sauce, it doesn't matter about them being a puree 

littlemoney

Apintplease said:

littlemoney said:

Freezer is rather full at the moment with home grown fruit, and other shop purchases. As the fruit gees used I will have to look at frozen onions. In the meantime it sounds like garage storage using knotted tights.

Does anyone know how long they might store for in a garage or is that a how long is a piece of string question. I  want to reduce supermarket visits as much as possible, but don't want to overbuy and waste food.

If your garage is dry - ie no damp, and there is a good air supply, then storing as I have posted above, onions should last for months

You need to make sure you are only storing dry firm onions which have no mould on them  - black dust that comes off in your hands. The tights method works as you can hang them up and just cut off as you need one. Another way is going to the supermarket and begging their cardboard apple trays that the individual apples sit on. You just don't want the fruit or veg you are storing to touch

I store my home grown apples for months in the garage, in boxes, sorting through every so often to discard any going off. I shall do the same with onions, using old tights as suggested, though I may buy them individually, rather than in a bag, so I can check none are soft nor have black dust on them. Thanks for the advice.

24Tweezers

I live in Fenland, (Cambridgeshire) and a local farmer has put on the roadside huge wooden boxes full off freshly harvested onions free for anyone passing by to have!  Apparently, they are too small for his buyers needs and rather than plough them back into the fields, he has really kindly offered them to locals, as I said free.  They are eye-watering to say the least!  
Needless to say, I was more than willing to offload some of his burden and take a bucket or two of these onions home.  At the moment they are in my garage, on sheets of newspaper.  So seeing this thread is just up my street, as even though I've given some onions to a few neighbours, I want to store the rest for my family's use over winter.