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Default storing chopped onions in olive oil

Goomba38 wrote:
> cybercat wrote:
>> "zxcvbob" > wrote
>>> Should be OK if you store it in the *freezer*. Otherwise I
>>> wouldn't trust it even refrigerated.
>>>

>>
>> What makes it dangerous? We're talking chopped onion in olive oil,
>> right? I'm honesty trying to understand this.

>
> anaerobic bacteria that can live and thrive without oxygen.

And the botulism bacteria occur naturally everywhere, so it isn't a matter
of being clean.
Janet