Kitchen Garden Forum

Do any of you ever bother with Eschalote Grise?

Having seen these promoted a number of times as having wonderful taste (I think in the Marshall's catalogue) I tried them for the first time this year.

Whilst the taste is "ok", I seemed to get a very low yield and even the biggest ones were barely 2cm in diameter and with a pretty hard outer skin. This combination makes using them a hassle. How have other people got on with them and do you have any advice on getting the best results

Also, do you generally use them in their "fresh" form (eg. like a Spring onion) or dried like other shallots

We tried to grow these and they were a complete failure.

Interesting to hear that glallotments.

So far, I have seen three examples of these:

Similar to ordinary looking "dried by the sun" onions or shallots, but hard to tell the size:


This one (from The Gralic Farm website) which actually looks like Spring Onions!:

Finally these more likely ones, presumably picked before they'd wilted much at all: