What you need to do with cucumbers to avoid white brine: here are useful tips
Pickled cucumbers
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Pickled cucumbers is a very simple and delicious appetizer for the winter, which can be prepared with spices, ketchup, dill and parsley. But very often the jars explode due to non-compliance with the rules of preparation.
Pickled cucumbers per litre jar
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FoodOboz editorial staff shares useful tips on how to avoid white brine in jars with pickled cucumbers.
Homemade pickled cucumbers for winter
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There are several ways to do this:
- all vegetables and herbs should be perfectly washed
- exact proportions must be followed
- salt for canning should be iodized
- brine should be boiled twice and vinegar should be poured in only in the last turn
- jars should be sterile and lids are required only of good quality and without damage.
- the key must be in good working order so as not to damage the jars.
Reasons why brine may turn white:
1. Breach of airtightness
Poor lids can be the cause of white scaling on the cucumbers.
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2. Non-sterile foods and jars
If you wash your cucumbers and canning jars poorly, bacteria will start to multiply inside the jars and the cucumbers will have a white brine.
3. Improper storage conditions
Cucumbers should be stored in a warm, cool place, as well as at room temperature, but not more than 3 days.
How to store cucumbers correctly
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4. Large amounts of chemicals in cucumbers
If the vegetables were sprayed with a large amount of chemical fertilizers when growing, then some time after pickling the brine of cucumbers may turn out to be white in color.
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