- Brown cooking
- Pickling
- Spanish
- Strong Red
See also Spring Onions, Herbs/Chives, European Exotics/Shallots. British and imports from as far away as Hungary, Poland and Chile. For some reason, very few retailers sell top-gradé ordinary cooking onions (look at the label – it will usually say ‘grade II’). The large mild Spanish onions are used raw in salads.
Dried onions have a devoted following in the States, where, for example, they are crumbled into salads and sandwich fillings.