Red onion rings add crunch, flavor and eye appeal to a green salad. A hot dog is wimpy without the chopped onions. Great barbecue demands that you have cold onion rings and pickles at hand. Something changes in the chemistry of the onion when it is cooked. The acrid taste becomes sweet as sugar.
Nothing complements a good steak like a dish of saut ed onions.
They are very simple to make. Just put a little butter in a heavy skillet and saut your sliced onions until they are limp. Season with a little salt and pepper. You can add a little mild paprika to give them a lovely color. Crunchy fried onion rings are a favorite everywhere.