Onion bread bitter?

[T-Bird]

My latest 2 batches came out bitter, I was very careful 2nd time to not over process the onions - in fact - if anything they were a little to large of chuncks - still bitter to point the bread is a huge fail.

I've made onion bread LOADS of time, never bitter - now this!

[joyce09]

I now always soak chopped onions in my fridge for at least one day and also change the soaking water twice. It helps with bitterness a lot but never entirely gets rid of the bitterness. I don't quite understand how that other ladies don't seem to have this bitterness problem at all. Maybe the difference in the onions used? I usually buy the pesticide-free (not organic) sweet onions at Sam's. Maybe I should try onoins sold at other chain stores.

[appifanie]

it was a tough lesson for me, but i learned that i don't like the onion bread and it doesn't like me :)

[mommyliz]

Hi guys. I use the Vidalia Onion Chopper (with the smaller sized dicing blade). It evenly dices the onions, and works beautifully. When I've tried using the food processor (or magic bullet, or blender), there's always some liquidy part produced, which creates bitterness in the onion bread. I know there are different brands that make this type of manual chopper. I bought it for 20 dollars, and it's awesome. I use it for any time I want uniformly diced vegetables/fruits. It would be great for making salsa. There are two different sizes of dicing you can do with it. Anywhoo...it works great for chopping lots of onion for non bitter onion bread!

[GoneGreen]

I use a small ceramic Japanese Mandolin set at 1.3mm to slice my onions.

The first time I made Onion Bread I used regular yellow onions. The bread tasted fine (not bitter) but the onion taste was very strong (which is okay because I love onions).

For my second batch (currently in the dehydrator) I used Vidalia onions. Same recipe and sliced the same way. I'll let you know in a few hours how it tastes compared to the first batch.

Mark

[GlimR]

I slice them very thinly on my mandolin....works like a charm every time~

[GoneGreen]

Second batch is done. Not that much difference, although the bread made using vidalia onions did not have quite as strong a flavour as the bread made with yellow onions. No bitterness though.

[levamssg]

Don't bother spending lots of $$ on a food processor ... go to target, kmart, walmart and get one there. I've had cuisinarts, GE, Black n Decker ... they all last about the same amount of time and do the same job.

[Gossy]

I was very excited to find this thread, as I'm currently having cravings for onion and garlic, and this bread recipe sounds like it'd certainly curb my onion cravings at least!

I, however, lack a dehydrator. Is there anyway to make these using an oven or other appliance? I'd hoped to get a dehydrator some day . . . but honestly I have very little counter space and funds right now . . . so it might not be possible for quite some time.