Legally speaking… you need to refuse service to someone who communicates an allergy then orders something that triggers the allergy.
On the other hand, it’s possible to be allergic to the raw form of a fruit or vegetable, but tolerate cooked or highly processed forms of the same thing.
Blew my mind the first time I looked up, “why can people who are allergic to tomatoes have ketchup.”
SignificantDrawer374
A friend of mine will vomit uncontrollably if he eats raw-ish onion as well. If they’ve been cooked down in soup long enough it’ll be fine and powdered onion is also fine.
LadyLixerwyfe
There are absolutely allergies to raw onion but not onion powder.
myusername_sucks
This is possible and some people do have this insane allergy. Went through this a couple months back doing a catering event. Pain in the ass and had to completely change recipes and make a lot of shit entirely different.
Tacobellspy
Some allergies are weird. There are people who are allergic to the green part that forms on an overcooked boiled egg.
Some people simplify serious dietary restrictions by saying “allergy” when they may mean “interacts with medication” or “will give me such bad reflux that my vocal cords become paralyzed.”
Allergies are complicated. We had a customer recently who was allergic to certain raw vegetables but if they’re pickled, it’s fine. It has to do with the allergen being a type of protein that unravels through processing.
ConfectionPutrid5847
My wife goes into instant anaphylaxis from just having raw onion touch her tongue, but can down powdered all day long without a problem, so laugh it up, motherfucker, because that allergy is *real*!
Magdalan
I too have a bunch of allery’s. LMAO powder is fine.
You sure your coworker is OK?
CallidoraBlack
I’m not allergic, but tomato sauce on pasta makes me feel sick. Pizza sauce doesn’t if it’s on the pizza because it’s been cooked twice. I think it destroys the acid that messes with my stomach. I can’t drink orange juice either.
dudecass
I have this allergy its not just a taste thing lmao
Bizarro_Murphy
Whoever ordered this is definitely not a fellow r/onionlovers
SpokenDivinity
The part of the allium that is often the cause of an allergy is removed when dehydrating. The same thing can happen with certain types of pepper allergy.
acrankychef
Sounds dumb but this one is a pass.
Raw onion and well cooked/powder/extracts are different, allergy wise.
Hour_Type_5506
Yep, allergy differences exist between raw, cooked, and dehydrated. Every cook should know the foods for which this is true, and understand why.
20InMyHead
âAllergyâ doesnât always mean life threatening anaphylactics. It can also mean the shitâs something horrible, and what causes that and what doesnât can be nonsensical to an outsider, but is what it is to the person it happens to. Someone says raw onion is bad, but onion powder is fine, believe them..
jackhotel
Allergy to onions is often an allium allergy which is a reaction to a protein within the layers of the raw onion. Or shallot or chive or even garlic. Powdered products are often so cooked or desiccated that the protein is broken down and people without allergy might avoid a reaction. For example I can cook for my husband with garlic powder but not with garlic.
That note from the server is honestly the kind of reaction I always fear when he and I are trying to eat at a restaurant.
AnyoPonyo
Totally unrelated but unless you work at Smash burger you can’t name your menu item “smash burger”. We got a talking to about that. So we named our Smoosh Burger lol
Vegetable_Ratio3723
The craziest thing here to me is the server actually knowing that you use onion powder in the kitchen đ€Ł
mack_ani
Can people please try to learn that you can be allergic to a raw food and not the cooked one? And many other equivalents, like peanut allergy/peanut oil okay, shrimp allergy/mollusks okay, cucumber allergy/pickles okay.
Iâm sick of seeing these âohohoho I caught someone lying about an allergyâ posts on here, when itâs literally just a matter of yâall not knowing enough about how allergies and intolerances can manifest.
Processing/cooking food changes the protein structure. And immunology is extremely complicated. Just trust people if they tell you their allergy works in a way you donât understand.
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Legally speaking… you need to refuse service to someone who communicates an allergy then orders something that triggers the allergy.
On the other hand, it’s possible to be allergic to the raw form of a fruit or vegetable, but tolerate cooked or highly processed forms of the same thing.
Blew my mind the first time I looked up, “why can people who are allergic to tomatoes have ketchup.”
A friend of mine will vomit uncontrollably if he eats raw-ish onion as well. If they’ve been cooked down in soup long enough it’ll be fine and powdered onion is also fine.
There are absolutely allergies to raw onion but not onion powder.
This is possible and some people do have this insane allergy. Went through this a couple months back doing a catering event. Pain in the ass and had to completely change recipes and make a lot of shit entirely different.
Some allergies are weird. There are people who are allergic to the green part that forms on an overcooked boiled egg.
Some people simplify serious dietary restrictions by saying “allergy” when they may mean “interacts with medication” or “will give me such bad reflux that my vocal cords become paralyzed.”
Allergies are weird. My fiancĂ© is allergic to a certain set of sugars, so sometimes based on how things are prepared affects if she can eat it or not. For example, she can eat cabbage in any way other than fermented. Fermenting cabbage (kimchi, saurkraut, etc) causes some change to the sugars present in cabbage that I am in no way qualified to explain and makes it so she can’t eat it. At this point, I just roll with it as long as it’s possible lol.
Allergies are complicated. We had a customer recently who was allergic to certain raw vegetables but if they’re pickled, it’s fine. It has to do with the allergen being a type of protein that unravels through processing.
My wife goes into instant anaphylaxis from just having raw onion touch her tongue, but can down powdered all day long without a problem, so laugh it up, motherfucker, because that allergy is *real*!
I too have a bunch of allery’s. LMAO powder is fine.
You sure your coworker is OK?
I’m not allergic, but tomato sauce on pasta makes me feel sick. Pizza sauce doesn’t if it’s on the pizza because it’s been cooked twice. I think it destroys the acid that messes with my stomach. I can’t drink orange juice either.
I have this allergy its not just a taste thing lmao
Whoever ordered this is definitely not a fellow r/onionlovers
The part of the allium that is often the cause of an allergy is removed when dehydrating. The same thing can happen with certain types of pepper allergy.
Sounds dumb but this one is a pass.
Raw onion and well cooked/powder/extracts are different, allergy wise.
Yep, allergy differences exist between raw, cooked, and dehydrated. Every cook should know the foods for which this is true, and understand why.
âAllergyâ doesnât always mean life threatening anaphylactics. It can also mean the shitâs something horrible, and what causes that and what doesnât can be nonsensical to an outsider, but is what it is to the person it happens to. Someone says raw onion is bad, but onion powder is fine, believe them..
Allergy to onions is often an allium allergy which is a reaction to a protein within the layers of the raw onion. Or shallot or chive or even garlic. Powdered products are often so cooked or desiccated that the protein is broken down and people without allergy might avoid a reaction. For example I can cook for my husband with garlic powder but not with garlic.
That note from the server is honestly the kind of reaction I always fear when he and I are trying to eat at a restaurant.
Totally unrelated but unless you work at Smash burger you can’t name your menu item “smash burger”. We got a talking to about that. So we named our Smoosh Burger lol
The craziest thing here to me is the server actually knowing that you use onion powder in the kitchen đ€Ł
Can people please try to learn that you can be allergic to a raw food and not the cooked one? And many other equivalents, like peanut allergy/peanut oil okay, shrimp allergy/mollusks okay, cucumber allergy/pickles okay.
Iâm sick of seeing these âohohoho I caught someone lying about an allergyâ posts on here, when itâs literally just a matter of yâall not knowing enough about how allergies and intolerances can manifest.
Processing/cooking food changes the protein structure. And immunology is extremely complicated. Just trust people if they tell you their allergy works in a way you donât understand.