Cutting onions is one of the easiest ways to make yourself cry and feeding them to your pet will make them extremely ill. The same chemical compounds are responsible for both adverse reactions.

I have been cooking food in the Instant Pot for some time now, and I've noticed a certain phenomenon when it comes to onions: unless you leave them in thick chunks, they are almost always reduced to to mushy, barely noticeable strands that dissolve with a glance. This isn't great if you want the vegetable to shine, but it's awesome if you want to infuse your dish with oniony goodness.

I, like so many millennials, am a big fan of instant gratification, and am always looking to hack, streamline or otherwise speed up the process of cooking delicious food. There is, however, one tasty treat that is always going to take its sweet, caramelised time: The onion.

A fried allium is the perfect finishing touch. Whether on top of a medium-rare steak, a creamy potato soup, or a gooey bowl of macaroni and cheese (or like, a salad or something), fried onions, leeks, garlic and the like provide crispy texture and salty, umami-rich, slightly pungent flavour. In short, they are desirable. They also just got a bit more convenient, thanks to this microwave method from Cook's Illustrated.

The people of 4chan are the latest, but were not the first and will probably not be the last, to try to boost their testosterone by drinking raw onion juice. This is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea.

Bringing chips and dip to a food-centric gathering might seem like a bit of a cop-out -- but, if you make the dip yourself, you just may be crowned unofficial snack monarch of the event.

It's hard to improve on an onion ring, but I dare say the folks at Tastemade have done just that. Instead of dipping the allium loops in a batter and then frying them, they have gone low-carb (and high-taste) by wrapping them in strips of tasty bacon and baking them.

Hello everyone, and welcome to the very first instalment of Will it Sous Vide?, a weekly column where I sous vide whatever the heck people want me to. This week's most popular suggestion was onions, specifically caramelised onions.

Pickled onions are a great condiment for sandwiches, salads and anything else that needs a tangy, flavorful topper. Here's an incredibly easy way to whip up a batch in only 15 minutes.

If you have a bamboo steamer basket and not much storage space in your kitchen, make your steamer basket pull double duty by storing onions, garlic and shallots in it. Here's why it's perfect for the job.