Hey Onions! Whatcha doin' in the freezer? Just Chillin'.

OK, that was a lame joke, but I do store onions in my freezer.

To freeze onions, all you have to do is put them in the freezer, as they come, skins on, no preparation necessary. I buy the 2 pound bag of plain old yellow onions when they go on sale (often for cheaper than a pound of loose onions), and plunk the whole mesh bag into the freezer.

When it comes time to use them, don't thaw them. Run them under warm water just long enough to make the skins easy to peel off. (30 seconds to a minute or so.) Cut them while still frozen, because as they thaw, they will get mushy and more difficult to work with. I have found that freezing onions makes them a little sweeter, and cutting into a frozen onion has never caused me any tears.

Frozen onions really need to be served cooked (as opposed to raw on a sandwich or salad), because the texture after thawing is mushy, instead of crisp. I don't freeze my sweet onions (like Vidalia), because I tend use them up faster than the plain yellow kind , and often use them raw.