The pickle experiment.
All this talk about red pickles got me thinking. Also it got me googling "red pickle". Some of the results didn't look photoshopped, and that's how I learned that there are really red pickles and they're really popular in the South right now.
I guess the pickles are re-pickled in Kool Aid, so you could make about any color you wanted, but the red ones are the popular ones. I sorted through a few recipes and decided to go for the easiest recipe that's supposed to yield the most intense flavor. You know, because I'm not a pansy. And you're coming with me. STEP 1: Prep. One jar of pickles, one packet of cherry kool-aid, one mixing container. Check. STEP 2: Pour pickle juice from jar into measuring container. STEP 3: Dump kool-aid packet into pickle juice; mix. You know, I thought the smell would be horrible, but it was not at all objectionable. The cherry smell kind of blended in. STEP 4: Dump cherry pickle juice back into jar. I removed a couple of pickles to make sure they all soaked evenly. The pickles I saw online were a really vivid red, and I want that. There's so much food coloring in Kool Aid that it shouldn't take long. STEP 5: Reseal and put in the back of your fridge for 2 weeks. Done. With a big note advising any scavengers to leave them the hell alone. Now we wait. :picklehat |
So... what flavour are we expecting? Cherry and brine? Or is it purely just a colour change?
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I'm thinking it will come out sweet and sour-ish.
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Fantastic. I want to see how this pans out. :)
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sweet pickles, bleah
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I'd give you a red pickle due to the experiment, but that'd be mean for such quality, so you'll have to settle for the green variety.
PS - Your counter is immaculate. I'm guessing you live in a clean room and the intel dudes with the microchips are right next to you working on hardware while you work on pickles in your clean suit. |
Something like that. This was my mom's kitchen, actually. Mine is usually about the same. I'm a neat freak who lives with slobs, so it's hard for me to keep up.
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These are where its at. |
The sugar will promote bacteria growth which will make you sick. You shouldnt attempt this with kool aid.
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kitsa don't you realize what you're doing
if the red pickles turn out to be GOOD, it will turn the i-mockery reputation system UPSIDE DOWN you MANIAC |
and itll be gross.
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I have a red pickle a week out of each month.
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The one's I had tasted like Red Hots with a picklish taste. I didn't ask how.
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I rejected pickle recipes with sugared kool-aid for this reason. It shouldn't be more or less harmful than any other two-week-old jar of pickles in the back of the fridge. |
This is great. If it works, you should totally do a pickle of each color and then make a rainbow pickle display. Can't wait to see how the red pickle turns out.
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and then eat them all and then throw up and post it on rainbowpuke.com
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This thread and almost all who posted in it before me win the internet
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Are there places where people actually eat pickles, then?
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Some people rather enjoy them.
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Dammit Kitsa, my plan was to come along on this wild ride with you... But instead of cherry I was going to choose my favourite flavour (lemon lime aka green). But I wussed out :x
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Go for it, but I doubt you'll see too much of an exciting color change with the lime. I've got berry blue somewhere, but I ran out of jars of pickles.
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