I accidentally bought the wrong pickles

[Duer 157099]

Four times.

Really.

So, now I have a whole bunch of pickles that I don't like and they are taking up room in the fridge, but yet I don't exactly want to discard them and I'm wondering: is there anything creative I can do with them?

My default plan is to use the juice from the Right brand that I eventually managed to get right, and let them soak in that for a few weeks to see if it changes the bad pickles into good pickles.

Will it? Can a bad pickle be converted?

[elleng]

1. LOLOLOL!!!!

:bounce:


What Makes a Pickle Kosher?

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-makes-a-pickle-kosher.htm

[Duer 157099]

3. OK then, here are the details

I have grown very fond of the pickles they sell at Costco in the huge jar, perhaps partially because I love those jars for storing dog food, rice, oatmeal, flour, whatever, in. But I like the pickles too.

Well I ran out and a Costco trip wasn't in my immediate future, so I was at the regular grocery store and was looking at the pickles (Vlasic) and kept looking at them "hmmmm, was it 'Kosher dills' or 'Original dills'" or some such, so I took a chance and got the Original dills. Took em home and YUCK, nope not the right ones. So a few days later I was at the store again and dammit I wanted the right pickles! In front of the same jars, but didn't remember which one I had gotten that was wrong, so took a chance and got, again, Original dills (and discovered when I got home that was the one I had gotten before and didn't like.)

Well! Now it's a crusade. Next time I'm at the store I go to the deli case and eye the Claussens because somehow I remember in my youth that I liked those and I wasn't able to get the correct Vlasic ones. Took some Claussens home and YUCK I didn't like those either!

One more iteration with a brand I've never heard of because now I'm just downright defiant. YUCK again.

Sigh.

So, I've got 4 rather large (but not large like Costco large) jars of yucky pickles to salvage somehow.

Oh, and because I reuse the Costco jars and remove the labels, I wasn't able to look there for help.

Finally got to Costco last week and got TWO of the large jars.

Anyway, that's the sad story.

[Warpy]

4. There is nothing you can do to Vlasics to make them decent, IMO

because those things are cooked to death to make them stable at room temperature for months. I don't like them either.

The Claussen jobs are salvageable. Just figure out what it is that you're missing--dill? garlic? hot pepper? mustard seed?--and add it and let them sit in the fridge for a few day. You could hurry the process by heating the pickle juice with the missing ingredient, letting it cool, and pouring it back over the offending pickles.

The Vlasic jobs are only good in things like egg salad and salad dressings, I'm afraid. I find them totally vile right out of the jar.

[Duer 157099]

5. I like the Vlasic Kosher Dills

It's their "Original Dills" that suck. Waaay too salty and just not good at all. Maybe soaking them in vinegar could get rid of some of the salt?

:shrug:

Let's say I ground them all up together, what could I possibly do with them? Make a relish I suppose and add enough counter flavors to balance.

I just don't use relish too often.

[elleng]

2. Having fun with this!

FROM PICKLE DAY EXHIBITS: What is a Pickle?

http://www.nyfoodmuseum.org/_pkwhat.htm

[Arkansas Granny]

6. How about making Kool Aid Dills?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/dining/09kool.html

I saw these on tv one time. They really look vile, but are apparently very popular where they are offered.

[grasswire]

7. oh yeah, they sell at county fairs somewhere in America n/t

[kestrel91316]

11. They probably sell them DEEP-FRIED at county fairs somewhere in America......

[supernova]

8. I guess now isn't the time to mention

my candied dill habit.

:rofl:

[japple]

9. Donate them to your local food bank. eom

[hippywife]

10. Give the unopened jars to a food pantry? n/t