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Goodness, it seems that in some places the term "pickling" includes #fermenting, and/or the term "fermenting" includes #pickling.

These are two independent processes, both of which have delicious outcomes - pickling is immersing and ingredients in an acidic liquid (vinegar, lemon etc, and often including salt) so it infuses the ingredient, and lacto fermentation is immersing the ingredient in a brine to allow beneficial bacteria to do their work. When foods are lacto fermented, the sour flavour is a result of a reaction between a food's sugars and naturally present bacteria.

I realised that there is some confusion when a friend said she was fermenting cucumbers when actually she was pickling them.

This is a good explanation: https://asiasociety.org/education/science-pickling-and-fermentations

#Food #InterestingInformation

for those that do #preserving and #pickling and what not, are the glass clip top jars any better or worse than reusing old jars (eg vegemite, peanut butter, garlic etc)?

I have found the jars with metal lids tend to rust a bit if you are doing pickles, so I am not super keen on going down the mason jar route

Pickles and bread day: Make *that*, AI slop merchants!
#HomeMade #pickling

On a white kitchen surface, there are two jars of red cabbage kimchi standing on saucers, and four jars of daikon (mooli) radish pickle, which have just been made. The kimchi will ferment, while the radish is hot pickled. I am waiting for those jars to cool down and seal themselves.

I've been on a bit of a ferment kick, making soy yoghurt, cashew and soy cheese, and sourdough bread.

Continuing my journey as "head of culture" at home, I want to start playing with fruit and veg ferments soon, but i haven't had a glut of anything yet this season.

For now, it's just day dreaming. Feed my imagination: what are your favourite fermented foods to make (or eat)?

#ferment #pickles #pickling #FoodWaste #fermentation

Doing some food prep for future me. Layered radish, onion and jalepeño #pickling and soaking chickpeas to make hummus tomorrow. #food

Chickpeas soaking in water in a medium size glass bowl, covered with cling wrap.

Red radishes, yellow onion and jalepeño slices layered in a large clear jar, with a yellow lid being fastened on.

Back into #pickling again. This time my first attempt at green beans, which I blanched first as I understand raw green beans aren’t great on your system. The seasonings I used for pickling were garlic, mustard seeds and black peppercorns, and salt in the brine of white vinegar and water. #food

A boiling pot on the stove filled with green beans as I mix them lightly with a metal spoon.

Green beans pickled in a jar up close. Floating garlic bits and mustard seeds also visible inside the jar, which has a yellow lid with the word “medium” on it.

My search for the perfect spice led me to create sweet, mild pickled jalapeños.

Cap Puckhaber shares his passion for spicy food here:
https://funkyfreshfoodtruck.com/my-sweet-mild-pickled-jalapenos/

#Pickling #GutHealth #CapPuckhaber #Jalapenos #spicyfood #food

Back on my bullshit. Bloody awful job. 😆 Worth it, though. #pickling #pickledonions

Two blue bowls. One is full of pickling onions. They're on a red chopping board. Salt and red wine in the background.

Pickling peppers!
#garden #gardening #harvest #pickle #pickling #picklingtime #peppers #poblano #jalapeno #bellpepper

A glass mason jar filled with freshly pickled jalapeño, poblano, & bell pepper slices, sitting on a wooden cutting board, with a blurred kitchen background.

Fermenting pickles with chipotle and cobanero peppers. 48 hours into fermentation.

#pickling
#fermentation
#peppers
#spice

A jar packed with green baby cucumbers surrounded by a red-brown hazy liquid. Some pickles are in focus, but the hazy liquid makes others seem out of focus. Specks of crushed red pepper flakes abound, and some small cobaneros are visible. A wet paper towel is under the jar, soaked with over flow brine from the pickling process. The word "Ball" with a capital B is visible on the jar. A plastic lid is partially visible. Smells smoky (but only those reading the alt text will know that part!).

State Secrets Now Decipherable in Supermarket Pickle Aisles: NSA Launches Urgent Hunt for Legendary Recipe

Intelligence agencies have begun using commercially available fermented foods as encryption, resulting in trench-coated spies sniffing kimchi in supermarkets becoming an everyday sight.

https://alt.andpaper.net/en/articles/20251029-fermented-food-espionage/

#intelligence-agency #fermented-food #kimchi #supermarket #encryption #recipe #national-security #pickling-bed #spy

Whew. That was a lot of prep work but it's worth it. Way too many mushrooms to eat in one sitting means finding ways to preserve them as deliciously as possible.

I opted for dry sauteeing and pickling most of my finds, also dehydrating the pigs ears and Boletus/Suillis sp. I remember reading somewhere that Suillis pore layer and surface skin can be dehydrated, ground into a broth powder, and it eliminates any GI distress these parts of the mushroom normally cause when eaten fresh, so I'm going to try that.

Also trying to make a broth powder from the Gomphus sp (purple "chanterelle"), which has a characteristically strong neutral umame flavor. No GI issues for most people with that one, but the flavor is also... Well, it's just challenging to work with. Oddly good with Worcestershire sauce and pickled onions on tacos. Wondering if maybe the dry powder is easier to do something with.

#foodpreservation #pickling #dehydration #mushtodon

#pickling day! Making 5 jars to snack on the next two weeks

a stove top with a pot of boiling brine, five mason jars stuffed with cucumber wedges, and a cutting board covered in cucumber seeds and bits.

With the big harvest of green tomatoes before the midweek frost of last week, I'm starting a batch of green tomato pickles which I enjoy so much.

I don't have my mom's recipe of what was then called "green tomato chow chow" (?) Don't know where that name came from. Instead I have a few recipes of similar stuff, and I combine and elaborate on some amalgam of them.

#Pickling #greenTomatoes

A large stainless-steel bowl is full of sliced green tomatoes and a few onions, while in the foreground, a scrap of old cotton has upon it an array of spices, like allspice, mustard and other seeds. They look above themselves, at the rising edge of the bowl, longing to join the tomatoes within, but it all seems so insurmountable. If only a superhero could come to their aid and bring them to their destiny.
Hold on little spices, help is coming.

Tonight I pickled some red onions and jalapenos for the 1st time! I was just planning on the onions, but had brine left over! Can't wait to give them a try!

#pickling

A mason jar of gorgeous ruby red thinly sliced onions in a brine.

A mason jar of rich green jalapeno slices in a brine.

Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday, @vegplotter !

#Harvest #Pickling #Cucumbers

Not only did I can for the first time ever, but I made kiwi jam and kosher style dill green tomato pickles. I also made canning labels with my Cricut and inkjet printer with print then cut.

Am so excited!!

#Canning #KiwiJam #Jam #Pickling #Tomtoes #Cricut #CricutMaker3 #Labels #CanningSeason

Several glass jars of home-canned goods are displayed on a towel-covered surface. The larger jars are filled with green tomato pickles and labeled “Kosher Style Dill Green Tomato Pickles,” while the smaller jars are labeled “Kiwi Jam.” Each jar has a decorative round label with a green and red design. The jars are sealed with silver metal lids and arranged neatly in rows.

So yeah, I had a successful crop of #RainbowChard that started out as teeny tiny seedlings from a local farm. I decided to start a second crop in late August, and the plants are getting pretty big! Since the enclosed porch isn't insulated, at some point, I'll have to harvest them (I have enough indoor plants to deal with). But thanks to @keira_reckons and @MaQuest I know what to do with the stems once I harvest them -- pickle them!

Pickled Rainbow Chard

"Pickling adds pop to fresh foods, especially Swiss chard stems. In this easy fridge method, sweet meets tart and it all balances out overnight. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Milwaukee, Wisconsin"

Read more (includes recipe):
https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/pickled-rainbow-chard/

#SolarPunkSunday #GardeningThoughts #HarvestTime #Pickling #RefrigeratorPickles #Recipes

Got a cucumber glut? Don't let them go to waste! 🥒 Slice 'em up & pop in a jar with vinegar, sugar, salt, and dill for easy refrigerator pickles.
Amazing fact: Cleopatra reportedly believed her diet of pickles was a secret to her beauty! ✨
#pickling #cucumbers #foodwaste #preserving #kitchentips

Got a cucumber glut? Don't let them go to waste! 🥒 Slice 'em up & pop in a jar with vinegar, sugar, salt, and dill for easy refrigerator pickles. Amazing fact: Cleopatra reportedly believed her diet of pickles was a secret to her beauty! ✨ #pickling #cucumbers #foodwaste #preserving #kitchentips

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