Dill Pickles????

[boneaddict]

Does anyone slice their cucs? 

[Southpole]

Does anyone slice their cucs? 

Unless I’m making a rare batch of bread and butter pickles I never slice any of mine, they’re usually too small for that. There was a few times I tried picking spears but they never would stay crunchy, probably due to their size. They never passed my crunch standard test which is pretty high.

[Tenkara]

I cut a fresh jalapeño in half and added it a jar last year for a test, it gave the pickles a little bit of heat and had really good flavor.

[jeffro]

I cut a fresh jalapeño in half and added it a jar last year for a test, it gave the pickles a little bit of heat and had really good flavor.

I was going to say the same thing
But I leave the jalapeños whole and add 2-3
Spicy dill sand
Pickled jalapeños yum

[salish]

I appreciate the recipes and tips for pickles. I used to have a recipe for spicy kosher dills that my mom made but I lost if decades ago. Last summer I decided to get back into making pickles and I used this cold-pack recipe from the Duris Cucumber Farm, in Puyallup. I followed the process and recipe to a T, but only half of the jars turned out well. Half of the jars were not done, even several weeks after the due date, and some were just vinegary. I don't know what I did wrong. The ones that DID turn out were delicious, though.

Recipe: Duris Cold-Pack Refrigerator Dills
To each quart jar, add in order:

1 grape leaf
1 stalk fresh dill wound in a small circle
3 peeled cloves of garlic
1/8th (sliced) white onion
3 teaspoons of pickling salt
2 teaspoons of mustard seed
15 whole black peppercorns (1/4 tsp)
½ to 1 dried hot red chili pepper
¼ teaspoon of alum
¼ fresh jalapeno pepper, sliced
1 slice of sweet red bell pepper (place on jar wall)
5 medium cucumbers, blossom end removed
2-3 small cucumbers, blossom end removed
½ cup of 5% apple cider vinegar
Fill jar w/tap water to within ½ inch of top screw on a new lid
Shake well to dissolve powders
Store in refrigerator
Pickles will be ready to eat and enjoy in 3 -4 weeks
Enhanced flavor is achieved by allowing them to cure in the refrigerator longer.

[Twispriver]

Dill pickles are like a gateway drug - after making them you might wonder if I can make that why not other kinds of pickles, why not other vegetables and before you know it you are hitting garage sales for jars and expanding the garden space.

[boneaddict]

Asparagus is on my bucket list for sure.    That is done for our season, but now I am staring at a whole bunch of beets coming on.

[OutHouse]

Haven't actually craved a dill pickle in a long time until reading this. Thanks for all the good info everyone!

[mcrawfordaf]

Does anyone slice their cucs?

I've done some sliced vertically and they still held up fine. I was kind of worried the "meat" would be soggy or too tender but was just fine. I use Weissman's "pickled everything" recipe but usually just go with the vinegar solution ratios he has then eyeball all the aromatics.

I also like to make a lot of escabeche carrots with jalapeno and onion.

[Alchase]

The wife and I got so tired of trying to find a decent Garlic Dill pickle in Oklahoma, stores have whole rows of the same boring pickles, made by 10 or so manufacturers, not one garlic dill pickle. 
So we tried our neighbors cold pickling recipe last summer. We made three batches, Garlic full pickles, baby dills, hot Garlic dills.
The garlic, had some garlic flavor, the hot garlic were hot and a little garlicy. All three had the same nasty metallic taste 

About a week later we were over at our friends house, and I had one of their dill pickles. it had the same nasty metallic taste mine did using his recipe. On the way home, my wife asked what i thought about their pickles, I replied, "at least I know how to follow instructions" 

[wadu1]

Haven't actually craved a dill pickle in a long time until reading this. Thanks for all the good info everyone!

Peanut Butter and dill pickle samich now your talking.

[Tenkara]

Haven't actually craved a dill pickle in a long time until reading this. Thanks for all the good info everyone!

Peanut Butter and dill pickle samich now your talking.

That sounds terrible, lol.

[Southpole]

Haven't actually craved a dill pickle in a long time until reading this. Thanks for all the good info everyone!

Peanut Butter and dill pickle samich now your talking.

That sounds terrible, lol.

It’s good!

[Southpole]

The wife and I got so tired of trying to find a decent Garlic Dill pickle in Oklahoma, stores have whole rows of the same boring pickles, made by 10 or so manufacturers, not one garlic dill pickle. 
So we tried our neighbors cold pickling recipe last summer. We made three batches, Garlic full pickles, baby dills, hot Garlic dills.
The garlic, had some garlic flavor, the hot garlic were hot and a little garlicy. All three had the same nasty metallic taste 

About a week later we were over at our friends house, and I had one of their dill pickles. it had the same nasty metallic taste mine did using his recipe. On the way home, my wife asked what i thought about their pickles, I replied, "at least I know how to follow instructions" 

Wonder what the metallic taste was? It’s not homemade but Nalleys finally makes a small, garlicky dill pickle that’s pretty decent.

[wadu1]

What can cause the metallic taste.
Salt can cause aluminum to pit and vinegar will react with both metals and give the pickles a metallic taste. Reactive cookware includes raw aluminum, unlined copper, and cast iron, meaning they react to acidic ingredients and can impart a metallic taste into your pickles.