French Onion Soup Recipe!

[Saviolo]

This week we do a lovely from-scratch french onion soup! This is a super easy recipe, it just takes a great deal of time to very slowly cook down all of those onions. You can see how much those onions cook down from our initial over-stuffed pot to the final product. A little note here: during the cooking process, the onions go through a period where they take on an unpleasant metallic smell. Just keep cooking through that, it will go away, and you'll be left with that lovely rich onion smell once it's done. Hubby could explain the food chemistry better than I could.

Also, a pro-tip here: Serve this soup with a cheese toast, then have a second round of cheese toasts ready to go by the time your diners are halfway through and have run out of the first cheese toast!

[Kali]

1. oooo

sake! I bet that DOES work well!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I love french onion soup,

but have never considered trying to make it. Right now I don't have the patience to watch a 10 minute video, but perhaps later.

And while I love the cheese on top, I have never figured out how to cut it up so there's not impossible strings of cheese to deal with.

[Saviolo]

3. There are a couple of solutions to the cheese.

If you don't want long strings of cheese, using different kinds of cheeses that melt differently might help. Also, it helps to melt the cheese onto the toast, and make sure it's nice and toasty before it goes on to the soup, which gives the cheese a good solid foundation to stick to instead of just moving throughout the soup.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. But then there's this large piece of toast with cheese melted on

it, which is hardly easy to consume.

I know, it's a very first world complaint. And I still order french onion soup reasonably often, and just somehow manage. Messily, but I manage.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. Actually it's quite mesmerizing watching onions

Being stirred for a long time