Flavor 5 stars! Ease of preparation 3 stars. (ie: only 4 star recipe) the dipping sauce was great after I too added a couple splashes of liquid smoke and also a tbsp of prepared horseradish as the taste before the real horseradish tasted all too much like mayo. Maybe next time I'll just replace the creamed horseradish with prepared all the way!!! Love the heat of horseradish though! The onion, lol, cut it in petals as it fell apart trying to bloom it. The batter double dipping was very messy. this is definately a recipe you must dip one petal at a time and likely will need double flour mixture to get a good double dip as I ran out and ended up with lots of gooey messy batter. So extra flour mix could've fixed that. Dip was great! Breading was great flavor too!

My husband and I enjoyed this although our onion did not coat well and therefore did not fry evenly. I did as some suggested and submerged in Ice Water for an hour. Also next time I will use less Cayenne.

This is basically the same exact recipe as the "Blooming Onion and Dipping sauce" recipe on the site. Its a very good recipe and makes great blooming onions. And the sauce is delicious! Just make sure to warm it up slightly before serving. I just dont think it tastes as good cold. If you are scared or have had failed at making blooming onions in the past I have some great pointers to help make one perfect. Look at my review for the other Blooming Onion recipe on the site and I have more detailed info there. I used to never be able to make them until I did a couple steps differently and now they turn out perfect!

Way to spicy for us. I only ever had a blooming onion from texas road house b4, and this was not even close. Way to spicy!!!

Really good. The sauce was incredible!!! I cut onion into petals (got too frustrated trying to bloom that onion!), however the petals did kind of stick together in the deep fryer and ended up staying stuck together. Extremely time consuming but good for entertaining!

So many ingredients, but Soooo worth it. Tasted as good or better than thos at those restaurants. The person who said they now use it for other veggies has a good idea, can't wait to try that too.

YUM. I ended up taking the easy way out and just made onion rings...yep lazy. I used two very big sweet onions and ended up having to double the flour mixture, which by the way I was worried about my 5 yr. olds little buds because of the cayenne, but he devoured at least 5 of them! Geez, I've not had a bloomin' onion in years, so I can't even compare, but this is a very tasty recipe, I will use this again.....can't help but wonder how it would be as a fish batter. Thanks for the recipe Joanne.

The onion was delicious. I will definitely make this again. I think it tasted better than the restaurants. I changed the sauce a little, it had strong mayo flavor, so I added more ketchup, a little honey mustard, and some liquid smoke and it was delicious.

Taste is great, especially sauce. Spectacular perfection has not always been easy to achieve! Maybe much with much more practice it would improve, but I am dubious. Presentation is always the most important criteria when serving guests, isn't it!

Pretty good, Chose to do petals instead of bloom so it was quicker to make, but this was pretty much a winner. Will make again and the sauce was great to, just had to add a little more ketchup b/c there was a strong mayo taste. But this was great.

This was very good...very similar to other blooming onion recipe on this site. Like them both equally. You do need to soak the onion in an ice bath for at least an hour in order for it to actually bloom (like other reviewers suggested). Thanks for the post.

yeah, this is a blooming onion alright!

would NOT make again-

The batter was quick and easy to make. We had some trouble making the onion "bloom" by hand. Instead, we gently opened the onion a little then placed it cut side down into some simmering water for a minute. After, we placed it into an ice water bath for 3 minutes and the onion bloomed nicely. To separate the petals during frying, we also dry dusted the onion with some flour mixed with the same spices the recipe called for, then dipped it into the batter, and ducted again. It took a little more effort, but we definately got an awesome bloom.

Very tasty but boy did I get into a mess with coating the onion. Next time I will do as suggested and cut into onion rings. Dipping sauce was great.

Good onion and *great* dipping sauce!