Not trying to judge, just trying to understand where we are in the spectrum of human behavior - when you eat a jar of pickles or olives or whatever, what do you do with the brine? Do you dump it, use it for something else, or drink it?
I know someone who saves it to drink it later. He is my husband. Honestly, even after 20 years together, I didn’t realize this about him. I thought the stockpile in the door was just a collection of forgotten empty jars, and I’ve been dumping them as such.
Which is it:
- I’m a terrible wasteful sinner?
- He’s a freak?
- Neither/Both, there’s a special middle ground?
No judgement or emotional attachment here, he can have an entire shelf of the fridge for brine jars, idgaf. It just never occurred to me to that I should consider stockpiling brine.
Are you stockpiling brine? What do you do with it? “I’ll drink some with breakfast tomorrow,” is a perfectly acceptable answer. Just curious if yours is different.
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Wait, you can drink brine? I assumed it was like seawater. Brb gonna cut my water bill in half and then get hypernatremia.
Damn, we really do have an emote for everything
In North Hexbearistan the children are forced to work in the emoji factories until their fingers bleed. Dear leader now has over 40 thousand custom emotes, most of them have never been used, while poor Hexbearians are forced to use basic unicode emojis 😣
hyper, meaning high
nat, neaning sodium
emia meaning presence in blood
high sodium presence in blood
it hypers nat in the emia
Duh
I don’t do much with pickles at all, so I have never had the problem of dealing with brine
secret camera footage of my kitchen, except the brine drinker looks more like a tall Moe and the skeptic has same hair but bigger tits
twenty years of wasted brine
Ikr, this is divorce territory
Eh it’s on him for not speaking up about it when his brine disappeared. Unless he assumed you were drinking it and was saving extra for you.
Sometimes I’ll drink the pickle brine, yeah. Shit’s delicious. I also drink the bean juice after cracking a fresh can of black beans.
This is such a wholesome post I love this.
drink the bean juice
This one is new to me! What is it like?
Idk if he’s ever tried that, but I’m going to tell him about it, this sounds like a thing he would do.
It’s like drinking the broth of a bean soup! Beany and proteiny. If you drink enough of it, you wind up looking like this:
All my friends make fun of me for drinking the bean juice but they’re just jealous
They definitely are, that’s peak performance right there.
You’ve sold me, we’re going to try it! Thanks for the tip.
If you save your bean juice (aquafaba is just bean juice!) you can add it to soups or sub it into your rice cooking water.
Combine with buttermilk and hot sauce and soak your chicken in it for awhile before frying.
It’s beautiful.
Oh my. I have to try this!
Olive brine goes in dirty martinis. Pickle brine can go in savory mixed drinks like Bloody Marys.
I found a recipe once for a “pickled martini” that used pickle juice instead of olive brine - it was really good.
a shot of pickle brine helps with bad leg cramps
I know someone who saves it to drink it later. He is my husband. Honestly, even after 20 years together, I didn’t realize this about him.
Okay, I get it, you think I’m weird. You didn’t have to make an account on my commie shitposting site to publicly shame me.
signed,
an autistic 40-something dad with a machine fixation and a trans son with ADHD
Hahaha omg!! I am going to have to make him create an account so you guys can be friends, this is hilarious! Are you anywhere near Ohio?
Brine is a powerful anti-hangover weapon.
I keep a few jars of pickle brine around for when I need to replenish electrolytes. I don’t as much any more since I am not running as often or as long distances. But my former roommate always kept a giant pickle jar that he would top off with normal sized jars of pickles he would buy, because he was a really serious runner that would always drink some after doing 10+ mile runs.
So, I guess middle ground?
If anyone is poor or looking to save cash etc. then the WHO Oral Rehydration Solution recipe is really simple:
1L of water (5 US cups)
6 teaspoons of sugar
½ a level teaspoon of saltLess is more with this; a more dilute version is nearly as effective whereas going overboard can negatively impact its effectiveness.
Works really well if you’re dehydrated, especially if you are dehydrated due to being sick.
How does sugar help with hydration? I’m thirsty all of the time, regardless of how much water I drink, but I don’t want to be drinking that much sugar every day.
Ohhhhhh - it’s like free Gatorade, but better
this never occurred to me, thank you ❤️ he really likes savory way more than sweet, this makes a ton of sense
For similar reasons, it is also a folk hangover cure, since it helps with replenishing electrolytes and rehydrating after drinking a lot.
I do not fucking DRINK the brine, I use it as a marinade or to pickle red onions, the brine of which also makes a great marinade
Don’t knock drinking the brine.
You could threaten me with making me drink the brine and I would snitch
Throw some baby carrots in there. Boom, pickled carrots. Great with a sandwich.
I save brine from pickled peppers and use it to make a delicious spicy sauce.
I am intrigued and would love to know more about this sauce!
There’s no exact recipe, but what I do is heat the brine on the stove and then add coconut oil, nooche, and xanthan gum. Blend it all together with an egg beater and then pour it into the jars I save while it’s still hot so as it cools the jars seal themselves.
I’m still experimenting with the exact balance of ingredients, but this recent batch was 1 part oil and 1 part nooche to 2 parts brine. I put the nooche in a coffee grinder first so it’s an extremely fine powder, then xanthan gum is sprinkled into the mix as it’s blending until it’s nice and thick.
Omfg, that sounds incredible. Thank you for typing this up, I am so fucking stoked to try it. I think kid and I will really like it and husband will see have a spiritual experience that alters the course of his cuisine forever.
Lots you can do with some brine in cooking…super secret weapon in lots of sauces and soups and similar things. I wouldn’t dump a whole jar of it in but a splash of brine could add much needed salt and acid to pretty much anything.
I don’t use it for this because I don’t make enough stuff that would benefit from it to but that’s certainly something I could see using it for.
To DRINK it though? Doesn’t sound good for you but I guess a little as a treat now and again sounds like am exciting palate hit so why not
One good use of leftover brine is this:
Submerge thinly sliced red onion into leftover brine and keep it in the fridge. After a couple of days you have a delicious, super-easy addition which is perfect for Mexican food and which goes really well in salads and as a side for lots of other dishes.
Brine is like nature’s Gatorade. When I’m hungover I crave that shit. So it’s good for him!
Is it really nature if pickling things is a human invention.
