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You can caramellize onions in 10min:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yt_0e72fs9M

(There was a real time version of that video, but unfortunately it seems that longer video is no longer available)

I've been able to repeat this process on a plain electric home stove with a stainless steel pan. It does work.

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He's adding sugar, I think that's cheating since you can quickly caramelize anything that way. The result is basically steamed onions with butter/caramel sauce - very different from simmering in butter for a long time.

What I do is make a large batch and freeze it in cubes. One cube = one simmered down onion.

Sugar, and Butter both things that turn brown quickly. You can see that butter is already partially browned when he starts. Also he is more mixing and soaking the tiny bit that caramelizes with contact with the hot pan by using water into the onions. You can tell by the texture and color of those onions at the end it's not exactly what you would get from a normally caramelizing.

The onions if caramelized should be more broken down that. This seems more like an in between browned and caramelized.

Burning onions and using the burnt parts to darken the onions does not make caramelized onions.

I use the same technique but with baking soda and balsamic vinegar at the end to make quick 'caramelized' onions.. but this video undoubtedly shows burnt onions that they call fond.

Jacob Burton is a great resource for proper technique and fundamentals. Teaches you cooking much better than “recipes”

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