The store was out of dried chopped onions, so I got onion flakes.
I think I like the flakes better, actually. I microwave-bake bread with onion in it daily and the flakes are nicer.
Minced? Pure madness. Let alone powder.
The "minced onion" at McDonald's is rehydrated onion flakes. It takes about 30 seconds to get them to absorb a bit of water, and they are then useful to top burgers, sandwiches, etc.
Since you're putting them in dough, I would assume they are rehydrating in the dough
My grocery store carries big shakers, all in the same brand, of (in order from finest to most course/granular) powder, minced, chopped, and flakes, all dried. I wasn't even talking about the jars of not-dried minced.
Though I bought a jar of minced ("wet") onion unintentionally due to a mixup the other day and used that instead and it was pretty good. Made my bread taste very sweet compared to the dried version. But the dried version is also good. (The "minced? madness" comment is just a joke, but I do kindof like the bigger flakes.)
But, yeah. Once it's baked, the result is pretty moist. I do think the dried onions rehydrate during cooking. (I cook my bread in the microwave for about 3 minutes and 40 seconds.)
You can bake bread in the microwave!!!???!!??
Here is my recipe for low-carb microwave bread (and, the onion thing is a newer addition since I wrote up that recipe) but there are microwave recipes out there for wheat-flour-based bread. It's surprisingly easy, really.
My recipe also uses baking soda and vinegar rather than yeast or anything. I think the baking soda/vinegar approach is more doable for microwave bread than it is for oven bread because the microwave version usually involves a lot less cooking time than an oven version.
One more note: I think the paper ice cream tub method works better than the stonewear ramekin method. Maybe the microwaves penetrate the paper better or something? Not sure.
This looks awesome! I’m going to have to try this some time
Powder is when I'm lazy making something that vaguely resembles chili. Also for onion rolls, the powder goes into the dough mixture (flakes go into the rolling process and on top though)
