How to Store Yellow Onions

storing yellow onions is easy

Tired of slimy, flavorless onions in your refrigerator? Instead of storing your fresh yellow onions in the vegetable crisper, try this easy option for maintaining delicious onions for months. When purchasing onions check for those that show no signs of green growth or bruising, and you want the skins to be dry and paper like.

Things You'll Need

• Fresh onions
• Pantyhose

Instructions

1. Do not wash your onions when you bring them home from the market. They will stay fresh longer if you keep them dry and in a cool, ventilated area such as a back porch or garage.

2. Cut the legs from a clean pair of pantyhose.

3. Drop an onion into the foot of the pantyhose, tie a knot, drop another, tie a knot and repeat for each onion. This keeps the onions from touching or bruising each other.

4. Hang the onion legs in a cool, dry, well ventilated place near but not in the kitchen. The kitchen will get too warm when you are cooking, yet you want them easy to reach when you are ready to use them.

5. Using scissors, just snip off the bottom onion when you are ready to use one.

Tips & Warnings

• Another method of storing fresh yellow onions is to keep them in a closet or cupboard in paper grocery bags with the top left open for ventilation.