Soft Onions (was: Peeling Onions)

[Andy Mabbett]

In article <MPG.1225f60f3...@news.ox.ac.uk>, Colin Blackburn
<phys...@ermine.ox.ac.uk> writes
>I tend to throw the whole onion away if there are excessively
>soft layers, this stemmed from being told that the very soft layers are
>soft because of a worm

Probably the microscopic onion eelworm (causes onions to rot in storage,
according to the RHS book on pests & diseases), though it could be the
maggot of the onion fly, which you would see; but it could be any number
of other causes, such as a simple mould or "rot".

I'm sure the non- soft parts of eelworm infected onions would do you no
harm, cooked. Unless your a vegetarian ;-)

(cross- posted for informed comment)
--
Andy Mabbett
"If they censure you, they tell you to cut it out.
If they censor you, they just cut it out."