Ingredients that chefs hate but have to cook

A food lover gets to choose what to cook based on what he or she likes to eat, but not chefs. They too have preferences but it is their job to cook something pleasing even if it is out of ingredients that they dislike. One chef admits that he has a phobia of cinnamon, another has a fear of durian, and one Indian chef says he has grown tired of the taste of an onion even though he cooks everything with it! Does any ingredient turn you off? Tell us in the comments. Text and Images by Sheere Ng @ Makansutra

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It does not mean that if you are an Indian chef, you are naturally drawn to onions. Chef Manjunath Mural of Song of India is tired of the taste, probably because onion is the basis of almost everything in Indian cuisine and too much of his time is spent on peeling and chopping them. He adds that they make his hands smelly too. Anyway, one way he uses to remove the smell of onion is to dip his hands in a bowl of lemon juice for a couple of minutes.
It does not mean that if you are an Indian chef, you are naturally drawn to onions. Chef Manjunath Mural of Song of India is tired of the taste, probably because onion is the basis of almost everything in Indian cuisine and too much of his time is spent on peeling and chopping them. He adds that they make his hands smelly too. Anyway, one way he uses to remove the smell of onion is to dip his hands in a bowl of lemon juice for a couple of minutes.