Before go doin a lot of picklin
Have you seen or aware of this;
Just a little warning for all who are canning pickles or anything using vinegar. This year you cannot just grab a plastic jar of vinegar or even pickling vinegar without checking the label. Safe pickling requires 5% acidity....for the first time we are seeing 4% acidity vinegar... on the shelves. That renders anything pickled in the 4% NOT shelf stable. There are several canning FB pages where everyone is warning ...for the first time ever...to check those labels or you could be throwing out many jars of unsafe pickled veggies.
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Wow great heads up. Thank you Joe.
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Thanks for that. We used vinegar We've had for a while. We'll check when we restock.
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Great info. Thanks, @montanajoe
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got to buy the good brands
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Wow, good catch Joe. Wouldn't surprise me at all to see "made in China" printed on that cheapo stuff.
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Thank you. Tried pickling some banana peppers this year for the first time. They just said use white vinegar, didn’t mention anything about acidity. Looks like we are good here after checking bottles.
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I love pickled food. We haven't done any on our own in years but maybe that will change.
There is a Hutterite colony that sets up a roadside tent near us. Love them and their produce and canned goods. They get a lot of my money.
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Pickled eggs with red wine vinegar and red beet juice. Take me home country roads.
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Another result from Bidenflation. The price has doubled, containers downsized, and contents diluted.
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Pickled eggs with red wine vinegar and red beet juice. Take me home country roads.
That actually sounds really good. 👍😁
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The one domestic chore my late wife "Sunshine" willingly took on was making home-made sweet pickles for me. I think she did it to show her mother she wasn't totally incompetent in the kitchen, just had other priorities.🙄
The worst part was finding cucumbers and then getting them sliced. Finally one year we had a local drought/hot spell and no cukes were available.
It occurred to me that we had a local business that supplied local buffets with fresh veggies, including sliced cucumbers, so I dropped by and asked about buying 15 pounds of sliced cukes.
A few days later they called and I had a sack of cucumber slices, ready for pickling, for about what we'd pay for the plain cukes and they were sliced really nicely.
Never sliced another cuke myself.😎
Thanks for the warning. Fescue and I need to make a batch of pickles soon.
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Strange you should bring this up Joe. I just bought several gallon jugs of this stuff to try to get the lime scale out of my cold water pipes. Doing an experiment right now with several flakes of the scale in a glass jar with some of this 30% vinegar. Bought it at my local Home Depot on sale for 19.99 a gallon! 😲
After about 36 hours in the jar, sadly, those flakes of scale have not gotten much smaller yet. Going to give it a couple more days and if nothing gets better at least I can return the unopened jugs.
Many use this strong vinegar as a weed killer.
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Thats a crazy price for vinegar?
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