Experimented with something tonight and while I would not call it a success, it's also not a failure. I think I'm onto something here. Much more experimentation is needed. You know those dehydrated onions McDonald's uses on its smaller burgers? I partially rehydrated them in water and then finished the rehydration in boiling butter. The idea was that this would make a flavored butter topping for steak. I used unsalted butter. This turned out to be the wrong choice. Also I can taste to much of the water and I think I used too much of the onions. Next time I will try using salted butter, less onions, and less water.That is all.
>>22266868You've discovered how to make compound butter congrats OP
Green onion would be a better choice for something like this.
>>22266869compound onion, more like. This is not the same. The idea is to saturate the onion with the butter, not the butter with the onion.
butter is 20% water
>>22266894You have it backwards. Water is 20% butter
>>22266868I think you're going to end up at onion jam
>>22266868First, you can Google onion butter, it's already a thing. Second, if you're bound and determined to do it with dehydrated onions then don't use any water, just go with butter, and if it needs more liquid to completely rehydrate then think about a splash of stock. Finally, using unsalted butter for what you did is silly.
>>22266868Yummed Up.
>>22266868It is wise to rehydrate anything with a flavorful liquid rather than water. Unsalted butter is hypothetically better for this application (fresher flavor due to shorter shelf life). But you have to add salt.
>>22266914I googled onion butter and this thread was the only result
>>22266868Onions are super cheap. There is no reason for this.
>>22266914shot>>22267134chaser
>>22267371Onions come presaturated with water. Dehydrated ones do not. It would be way more work to first mince and then dehydrate a bunch of onions than it is to just use my stock of already minded and dehydrated onions.
>>22266868Waste of a perfectly good steak
>>22267560That is not "perfectly good" steak. It's from a thin, $7 cut of tough choice top round for experimentation purposes. Even if it weren't, how could it possibly be a waste if it's eaten?
can't you just cook real onions in butter? that whole thing sounds convoluted.
>>22266868Maybe you could try making a buttercream frosting but with onion powder. Good luck, op, I wish you a speedy gastronomic breakthrough.
>>22266894This simply isn't true there is no water content in butter. You're thinking of margerine.
>>22268840Don't tell me what I'm thinking, cunt.
>>22268973suckle on my bellend like you're a baby pig and I'm the mummy pig
OK! Update on the experiment. Making good progress. This is definitely something to continue to explore.The dehydrated onions were submerged in melted butter (salted) and left for a few hours to to become plump with butter.The steak was more of that $7 cut of top round, seasoned with pepper, sazon and a little kosher salt. Quickly seared in avocado oil on both sides.Spooned up some of the onion topping and drizzled it across the top.Very nice like this. Very mild onion flavor and it has that nice soft crunch to it that you'd expect from little soggy onions. Really nice, creamy butter bursts out of the onions with every bite. Very savory with that nice mild oniony flavor to go along with it. On the last bite of the steak, I loaded up a bunch of the butter onions onto it. Very yummy.Thing is, this was spooned up from a glass of melted butter with the onions at the bottom so naturally a lot of liquid butter came up with it in the spoon. I want as much of the butter as possible to come only out of the onions as you chew. So next time the onions will be strained and possibly patted dry as part of the prep.Since butter is mostly fat, it should be able to deep fry the fully saturated onions if simmered for a while. Curious to see if these will become crispy after doing so in the butter bath. Next experiment will see if I can get a nice crispy onion topping that bursts out butter as you chew.
>>22269409It's just a steak with fried onions. I'm worried that your onion project has sent you mad.
