What’s the difference between green onions, scallions, & chives?
December 10, 2009 by
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Are they all the same plant (different names)???
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Both green onions and chives are in the same allium family, and both are used in cooking to spice foods. The primary difference is that green onions form bulbs that are used as slices, whereas chives are used as an herb used to flavor soups and salads. They are grown for their top growth, where green onions are grown for the root or bulb.
Scallions are also known as a green onions.
Green onions and scallions are two names for the same thing.
Chives are a different herb. The stalks are much more slender than green onions and a wee bit darker green in colour.
The distinction may be getting blurred in the kitchen, but botanically that isn’t the case:
Allium cepa: the spring or green onion, a faintly bulbing onion with a long neck, fast growing, mildly flavoured, long kitchen season.
Allium fistulosum: the Welsh onion, Japanese bunching onion, Scallion, hollow leafed coarse chive-like evergreen onion with almost no base bulbing; has been hybrized with Allium cepa, producing, for instance, the ‘Louisiana Evergreen’, ‘Guardsman’, ‘Ishiko’, etc etc….
Allium schoenoprasum: Chives, slender, hollow leafed onion with no usable bulb whatsoever. Perennial.
Even if we want to substitute one for the other at will in the kitchen, to declare them identical as we please in any other terms ‘ain’t right’…
Green onions ARE scallions…..just different names….but chives are in the onion family but use only the green part but have a nice mild onion-like flavor. They are ALL very good !