Stop. Look at me.
Pickle it.
Dehydrate it.
Powder it.
Snort it.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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New Daft Punk song just dropped
that which dont kill me can only make me dumber
Lol, #accidentalDaftPunk
instructions unclear. can't breathe
Should probably copyright the lyrics
Have you ever seen a group of old European men "hanging out" in the gym locker room? That's why.
100% hilarious and 0% appropriate.
some one did it https://rockinwhomestead.com/dehydrated-pickles/
I imagine it isnt popular because it is overpowering.
That means it is entirely possible that you could munch on 20 to 40 of these ships in one sitting if you are not paying attention, and consume the equivalent of two to four fresh pickles.
Would you really eat that many fresh pickles in one sitting?
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Because cucumbers (my spelling is horryble)
Are like 90 something % water, drying it would be very bad
I kinda want a dried pickle now wtf?
I dried out a cucumber over time like a gourd once just to see what would happen, and at the end it was basically a loofah, super light and airy.
my guess is that drying something, much like pickling something, is used as a method of preserving the given food. as a pickle is already preserved, you wouldn’t need to dehydrate it.
So are dried pickles the ultimate preserved food? There until the end of time?
I think freeze dried would be okay... like, crunchy? I'd put that on a baked potato. Just plain dehydrated might be chewy and not that great.
oh yeah thats a good point. well maybe it'd be ok if it were one of the sweeter varieties like bread and butter?
I feel like that might sorta be good on toast
What if you dehydrated pickles and then deep-fried them? Maybe it'd be crunchy?
we're going to have a dehydrate a pickle first...
get a dehydrator & experiment, OP
Please report back OP
I just realized I have one. Never used it tho, came as a bonus with another thing I bought.
I think I will try that, sounds fun.
It seems to be something others have tried, and at least one company is selling them. I bet they would be pretty good if you like pickles.
Seems like it would work particularly well with a sweet pickle, concentrating the vinegar and salt flavors is going to make them really strong, sweetness would help balance it out a bit.
I'd even consider making a custom batch with a lighter seasoning (like summer style fridge cucumbers), so it's more like cucumber chips with vinegar and salt.
I bet dried sour pickles would make a killer seasoning.
I think we should start with why are pickles a thing. I mean come on.
I gotta preserve my cucumbers somehow!
Yknow it's weird. I love other pickled things. Hell, pickled onions are my favorite form of onions, and I love onion in general. But pickles? Disgusting. Can't stand them. The absolute worst.
I recently found pickled radishes at a farmer's market. So good!
pickled radishes with some red pepper flakes added in the juice are amazing
Same, although I have actually tried pickles at certain restaurants that I've enjoyed. Very rare though.
what about sweet pickles?
In case serious. Before refrigeration and Air conditioning were invented, farmers wanted to keep their produce from going bad.
You had a few options, canning, bottling, pickling, salting, drying. Canning was invented 250 years ago or so. Bottling was a thing as long as bottles have been around, which is 500 or so years ago. Beyond that, the best way to ensure food doesn't grow bacteria or mold or whatever on it is to make the food inhospitable to microbial life, so by depriving it of water or putting something in it that prevents growth. So vinegar and salt.
That's why pickles are a thing. We now live in an age where food "just comes from the grocery or food kiosk or restaurant". Mostly due to improvements in technology. But food usually comes in seasons. Whether hunting, fishing or planting. Fruit cocktail canning is done over the course of a month in a year. 24 hours nonstop.
Cucumbers grow easily. Preserving them turns them into pickles.
There's fried pickles. That dries them out a bit
Mmm.... Hooters fried pickles.....
I'm not sure what is really going on, but my regular grocery store has dill pickle salad and something is crunchy. It's really good!
Maybe because they’re mostly water?
If I remember correctly, the salad bar at Whole Foods has a topping that's dried dill pickles with some kind of seasoning on them. They're pretty tasty.
UPDATE: I went back and I think it’s more like a fried pickle. They are delicious though:
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