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The sirloin is cut from the loin, a lean steak with little fat providing hearty beef flavor. Is blooming onion free day? What kind of onions does outback use?

The Outback Steakhouse classic can now be yours, in your home, whenever you want. The Bloomin' Onion seems like it'd be impossible to replicate, but the folks at PopSugar have figured out how to make this decadent dish at home.

Find your closest Outback Steakhouse location. Get the Free Bloomin' Onion details below! How do you cut an onion for a blooming onion? Place the onion cut-side down. Repeat to make four evenly spaced cuts around the onion. Continue slicing between each section until you have 16 evenly spaced cuts.

Turn the onion over and use your fingers to gently separate the outer pieces. Outback menus used to may even still even credit it saying so. Copeland first ran with it in chain restaurant form, then Outback did.

Kinda one of those things where I bet more than one place was making them without knowledge of the others. Replies 2. Do a search, Outback's menu used to and again may still state: an outback ab-original from Russell's marina bay. Tim Gannon, who is one of the three founders of Outback was the one that started the onion cutting process. He was also the chef at and he worked at Copelands. We use to cut the onions by hand in the old days by putting a ramekin on the core and slicing it with a paring knife.

Pocket Flipboard Email. Stay tuned for more details. More From Eater Miami. Sign up for the newsletter Eater Miami Sign up for our newsletter. But there are a lot of other great appetizers on the Outback menu, too, like volcano shrimp and mac and cheese bites. The chain sold 40 million of the appetizer between and , according to Foodbeast. The next time you're eating a Bloomin' Onion, there's a good chance that plenty of others across the country are digging into the same appetizer.

The Australian theme at Outback is fun, but not every dish on the menu is inspired by the country's traditions. As you might guess, a deep-fried appetizer is a pretty American concept, not an Australian one. Weekly in If you're planning a trip to Australia, don't expect to find similar fried foods on your trip. Kevin Harvick, a professional racecar driver, has a pretty sweet deal with Outback.

If you don't live near Outback or just want to eat at home, there are plenty of copycat Bloomin' Onion recipes out there. This one from A Beautiful Mess involves coating the onion in a mixture of flour and spices before frying it. Get the recipe from A Beautiful Mess.