French Onion Soup

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This came out fantastic, I ate it for 4 days as I was only making it for myself and froze the rest. Awesome, awesome recipe thank you Alton! By the way if you added vinegar instead of cider of course its going to taste gnarly, read the recipe a few times through before you make it *shaking head*

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This recipe does not mention vinegar anywhere in it. If you put vinegar in the soup, please learn to read a little more carefully and try it again. If you think you have "too much onion" you must not like onion soup. Also, don't further ruin the recipe by putting beer into it. It's already got wine, how much more alcohol do you really need?

This recipe is easy and tasty. I have left out the cognac, and added less wine to let the flavor of the onions and broth/consume come through a little more. Using yellow onions is fine. I may try white and red next time I make it.

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I just made the French Onion soup exactly as directed. Yuck! I have never heard of putting vinegar as an ingredient before and I'll never try it again.
Sorry Alton, this was a stinker.

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If you really want to make this recipe and have it come out as it should, WATCH THE VIDEO!! The written recipe has incorrect ingredients ( in the video he say to NOT use vidalia onions as the will be too sweet

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this is the first time I have ever not liked an AB recipe. I followed the directions exactly (no, I did not confuse Apple Cider with Apple Cider Vinegar and my end result was not rich enough in flavor and had much too much onions. Next time I will lose about half the onions, use only beef stock and beef consomme, and probably substitute dark beer for the apple cider vinegar, as someone else suggested. This whole recipe just came out so blah that I could even fathom eating the leftovers.

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French Onion Soup is a long and hard process with a great reward in the end. This Onion Soup was great, it had all this great flayer but was missing this "pa-zasa". I think all Onion soup missed it so I do not blame Alton, I blame France - LOL - just kidding but I really liked the soup and so did my constituency.

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I loved this recipe. I love french onion soup, and this recipe definitely makes the cut. I agree with the others who have criticized the sweetness of the recipe, but the rest of the ingredients certainly possess enough potential for 4 stars. The flavors are layered beautifully in this concoction -- between the bouquet, wine, cider, and cognac it's delicious. That said, next time i'll back off the apple cider by at least half and mellow out the sweetness. The fact of the matter is that french onion soup features ... ONIONS. and onions have a wonderful natural sweetness that is showcased in this dish. if your soup has no sweetness, you are masking the natural taste of the onions, not featuring it. the cider adds a little bit too much sweetness, but i do love the flavor profile. TIP: adding a small portion of lemon juice tossed into the cheese eliminates the stringy-ness of the cheese. no more need to serve scissors with your soup ...

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THIS IS AWESOME, THIS RECIPE ACTUALLY GOT MY HUSBAND AND 14 YEAR OLD SON EAT ONIONS : THANK YOU ALTON'
AND YES,PLEASE PEOPLE READ THE RECIPE BEFORE YOU MAKE IT, BECAUSE THERE IS NO WHERE ON THERE OR EVEN THE VIDEO THAT IT SAYS APPLE CIDER VINGER NEVER SAID THAT LMAO IT'S APPLE CIDER AS IN "APPLE JUICE" EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THAT 10 OZ OF APPLECIDERVINIGER IS TO MUCH LMAO

AND INSTEAD OF WHITE WINE I USED BEER, AND LOVED IT

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Like many other cooks, I too altered this one. I was "using what I had" and didn't have any white wine on hand. Sounds crazy, but beer worked! I think it even balanced out some of the sweetness. I just added a little apple juice until it got as sweet as I wanted it. Also left out the Cognac - and used a toasted hamburger bun intstead of toast! Ha! Desperate times call for desperate measures - point is, you can use what you have, and it is still delicious. A-hem, just DONT used vinegar. Unless you'd like to make a marinade outta this stuff. :

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I used this recipe as one of the soup courses for a Medeival Feast for 125 guests. I made 5 gallons of the soup and it was gone in 5 minutes.

AB, this is an awsome (the very first time I have ever used that particular superlative version of French Onion Soup.