Fresh onions are not cured for storage. How often do you get to eat a fresh onion anyway? Answer: for only a select time of the year!
This particular opportunity comes about by way of the bolting biennial onion believing itself to be in its second year. Biennial in that onions are a flowering plant that take two years to complete their biological life cycle. In their first year, they undergo primary growth, in which vegetative structures: leaves, stems, and roots develop (at the end of this phase is when we like to eat them). In their second year they aim to reproduce, ie bolt. Bolting is the term used for the reproductive phase when a plant shoots up vertically, sending out a flowering stalk for seed production. The term bolting in agricultural context has negative connotations, in that we use it when something is blooming that we do not want to bloom. Such as now, with the onion. BUT, this is one of the many boons of small-scale farming, NO WASTE! We shall NOT throw out these onions because they do not meet market standards (so boring; everything the same; so contrary to nature and creative forces)! We shall make the best of them AND EAT LOTS OF FRESH ONIONS RIGHT NOW! This is called:
Eating with the seasons!
Making hay when the sun shines!
Seizing the day!
And even:
Willfull waste makes woeful want!
(in the big picture, if not now, then for future generations)
Let’s use up these onions! A bolting onion is perfectly good. It will store for weeks in your fridge, but not for months. This is due to the fact that the neck has a big fat flowering stalk going through it, which makes it impossible for the neck to seal the onion bulb into a nice closed package for storage. I have provided a picture with a cross section of the bolting onion - see here. Do as I did: cut the onion in half from head to toe, top to root. You will then find the flowering stalk exposed, also cut in half. Remove these flowering stalk halves, and then proceed to use your onion as desired. The stalk should be removed because it is on the tough side.