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Keep Cut Onions Fresh: One Classic Storage Item Prevents Them From Going Bad Quickly By Karen Hart Oct. 18, 2025 11:39 am EST

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Onions, whether raw, fried, caramelized, or simmered, are a critical ingredient for building flavor. However, if you are prepping for a meal and have chopped, diced, or cut up too much of this bulbous veggie, storing it in the fridge in any old container (or no holder at all) can cause you grief. This is one of the many mistakes you might make when storing onions . That strong, lingering odor can spread and have everything in your appliance smelling and tasting like it. Enter the humble Mason jar.

Onions are notoriously pungent, but this container, which was initially used for canning and can wit

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