How To Make Pickles Without A Recipe

you know some things are just better when they're kept simple I think pickles fall under to this category let's not overcomplicate this one okay [Music] this is technically still a recipe but it's also not considered a choose-your-own-adventure recipe but not the recipe you see there's a certain beauty to this kind of pickling a beauty and simplicity if you will because all it requires to pickle this is vinegar water and salt and a freaking jar and then you can pickle just about any vegetable you can think of anything well not in and now instead of drinking a morning cup of coffee out of a mason jar you can actually use it for what it was intended to be this for just say don't know you're wrong I've been guilty of drinking coffee out of a mason jar it's good for the plant at the end of the day so thank you all stop okay oh oh now first things first we're gonna make our universal all-purpose pickle liquid so it's essentially gonna be equal parts vinegar and water so for me I'm doing two cups of vinegar and 2 cups of water which is about 400 grams each now once you've done that for every cup of pickling liquid that you have total you'll have 2/3 of a tablespoon or 11 grams of kosher salt in my case I needed two and a half tablespoons and 45 grams now we're gonna bring this to a boil but before we do that I want to talk about aromatics really quickly now these are some aromatics that I like to use but you don't have to use any at all it's totally personal preference I've got some herbs I've got Sichuan peppercorns I've got pink peppercorns coriander seeds you can flavor it with just about any whole spice fresh herb or any aromatic that you can think of using do now the last thing I want to talk about before we actually pickle these is what kind of vegetables should you use right you can use pretty much any Hardy vegetable that you want just as some examples for my favorites I've got red onion green onion cucumbers carrots and you know that's actually well that's all I got since you're gonna be pouring boiling pickling liquid over these they need to be able to stand up to that heat so you wouldn't want to do anything like spinach or lettuce that would be gross if it's your first time I would start with one of these you know just Oh [Music] lastly I'm gonna show you how to actually pickle a vegetable now I'm gonna give you some spice examples for my Sichuan pickles but you can use whatever you want now to my pickle look what I like to add them one and a half teaspoons of toasted Sichuan peppercorns two teaspoons of toasted coriander seeds one tablespoon of mustard seeds and that's about it I might add a crushed garlic clove or two and just to reiterate this is my personal preference of spices for pickled cucumbers anyway now all you need to do is bring it up to the boil now if you're choosing not to use spices and you wouldn't put any spices and at this point but if you do you add them to the liquid bring it up to the boil and then as soon as it comes to a boil you're gonna immediately turn the heat off fill your jar with whatever you wanted to have so in this case I have some cucumbers and some fresh sage leaves these are pickling cucumbers then you're gonna pour your hot pickling liquid directly over your vegetables just enough to completely cover and submerge your vegetables that is it now I will say that a lot of vegetables have the tendency to float to the top and poke out at the top you want to keep them submerged so what I like to do is I'll take a little paper towel and press it down to soak the paper towel and keep them submerged that is it and then once you've done that just let this cool naturally at room temperature until it is completely cooled once it has done that you can put the lid on close the lid and place em in your refrigerator and they'll stay good for you very long time oh and please remove the paper towel before you put the lid on by the way and that's pretty much it the same method will apply to literally any other vegetable that you want to pickle the only thing that's gonna change is maybe the way that you like to cut the vegetable or the type of spices that you like to use but it's the same method in the same pickle base every single time so there you go now that we all know how to make pickles I think it's time for a sensual pickled beet roll [Music] so now you know how to pickle just about anything you have the power but use it with great responsibility and by that I mean please don't go and try and pickle lettuce or something like that please but as always if you enjoyed this video leave a like subscribe and I will see you next week you ever get that feeling when you have like a ton of mucus in your chest and you want to cough it up but it won't cough up that's nice [Music]

Channel: Joshua Weissman

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Length: 5min 2sec (302 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 20 2018