Do onions stay sweeter in the refrigerator?
Onions get there pungency if they have any while they are still growing in the soil at the farm. Hot, dry growing conditions can be a contributing factor. I purchase “White Onions” for my eating out of hand habit and keep those in the crisper drawer of my refrigerator. It makes them nice and crispy when you go to eat them uncooked. “Yellow Onions” I purchase to use in cooked dishes as they are usually the more pungent of the 2 kinds of onions. Usually I don’t refrigerate these, and if they start to grow then you have some “green” onion tops that you can add to your cooking dishes also, kind of a double benefit. So choose how you like em’, and whether or not you want to refrigerate them. A refrigerator works just like the old time cellars, it helps retard the “green onion tops” from growing, adds crispyness, and slows the chance for mold and rot, which is more common with a sweet onion like a “White Onion”.
