Peeled onions, eggs, garlic

BlumaG

Sun, Jan 30 2005, 5:47 pm

my question is:
what is the head of the onion, the part with hairs coming out or the pointed top part?

gryp

Sun, Jan 30 2005, 6:13 pm

the end that looks like the bottom is really the top...

amother

Sun, Jan 30 2005, 8:51 pm

Proud Mom I'm really curious about this whole coverring negel vasser thing please explain Question

proudmom

Sun, Jan 30 2005, 10:29 pm

Some Poskim say that mayim megulim are not to be used for netilas yadaim. This means water that was uncovered during the night. According to them, the water should be covered when left by the bed. Other Poskim disagree

http://www.ohryerushalayim.org.....topic

sarahd

Mon, Jan 31 2005, 6:39 am

RG wrote:

the end that looks like the bottom is really the top...

But which end is that??????? How do I know what looks like the bottom to you??

gryp

Mon, Jan 31 2005, 10:04 am

you know this had me confused for years, but I finally got it. when you hold an onion right side up, the top is the point and the bottom is round with strings coming out. BUT, for this I have learned, that the round part with strings coming out is really the top and should not be cut off if your planning on saving the onion overnight.

ForeverYoung
Guest

Mon, Jan 31 2005, 10:12 am

sorry, but those strings are the roots, and as far as I know, the roots are at the bottom of things.....

gryp

Mon, Jan 31 2005, 10:27 am

I know, thats why I always thought the top was the top, but finally I learned that what is really the bottom, in this case is called the top...

ForeverYoung
Guest

Mon, Jan 31 2005, 10:29 am

But how can top become the bottom?

who came up with this reverse logic?

Yael

Mon, Jan 31 2005, 12:04 pm

if you think about it in a different way you can understand it.
think of the roots as the part that attaches the onion to the plant. right? then flip it upside down in your mind. top means where the onion meets plant. not how it grows in gravity.

ForeverYoung
Guest

Mon, Jan 31 2005, 12:17 pm

Quote:

think of the roots as the part that attaches the onion to the plant

we're on the different wave length right now...
and my tuner seems to be broken.

roots, as I know of them, attach onion to the ground...
as can be seen here:

http://www.fotosearch.com/PHD183/12047/

the greenery is the equivalent ov leaves, and it's on the top,
and the roots are on the bottom.

Yael

Sun, Feb 06 2005, 2:14 pm

if you had an onion growing in zero gravity, would the leaves be up or down? they would face the light. roots are where the dirt is so it doesnt mean top and bottom as in gravity. think of top as where the onion starts to grow from, the roots.

ForeverYoung
Guest

Sun, Feb 06 2005, 9:18 pm

LOL

this is really funny!!!

Yael, I appreciate your attempts to educate me Wink

micki

Sun, Feb 06 2005, 9:29 pm

kinda like the pic of your sweet kidlet. what is the top? her hair should be the top but in the pic its the bottom and her chin which normally points down is now poining up. so her top is the bottom and the bottom is now top where really her top is her top and bottom is down.

Tongue Out