The Difference Between Yellow and White Onions Is More Than Skin Deep

[Kali]

8. I have never found these onion articles to align with my experience.

to me red onions are too variable - sometimes they are good and sometimes too pungent. I rarely buy them.

white onions are almost always too pungent.

I buy two types of yellow - regular cooking and sweet for using raw. in winter the "sweets" are large ones from Mexico, I think. In summer they are Vidalias or similar. I learned to look for the flat ones (top to bottom) when you don't know what kind, they tend to be sweeter/milder.

sweet onions actually cook up kind of bland and pungent onions seem to caramelize or become sweeter with cooking.