Seeing as our cooking skills stretch as far as an M&S ready meal and a packet of ready salted crisps, we're not exactly experts when it comes to knowing how to store food correctly.
But you definitely shouldn't be keeping your onions in the fridge - and not for the reason you might think.
USDA Foods say when an onion is chilled, the cold temperatures convert the starch to sugars, meaning onions become soft and soggy a lot faster than they otherwise would.
Oh, and that they make everything else taste/smell like nasty onions, and no one wants that.
Onions will actually stay good for up to 30 days if you store them the correct way - cool, dry, dark place. Eating Well say you should leave your onions in a bowl within the mesh they come in, or in a cool and dry spot such as a cupboard.
They'll keep for a week at room temperature, but should ideally be kept at 7C, apparently, and shouldn't be kept in a bag as they need air to breath.
Interestingly, stories about whether half cut onions attract bad bacteria in a fridge and lead to making people very ill haven't been proved or confirmed by a reliable source - so whether you believe them, eat them or cook with them, we'll leave that decision with you.
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