food preservation
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It’s Time to Embrace Hot Pickle Summer
In a development fictional scientists are calling “not really that surprising,” I have grown obsessed with cooking cucumbers, both pickled and plain. First I cooked some of the latter over coals, then I turned my attention to ranch-fried pickles, and now I’m all about — and I mean all about — grilled pickles.
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Make Fancier Drinks With Freeze-Dried Fruit
Like any millennial who grew up inundated with commercials for Space Camp (yet never went), I hold freeze dried foods in high regard. Dippin’ Dots may claim to be the “ice cream of the future,” but you won’t find it at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. No, that particular gift shop real estate…
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How to Ferment Your Own Pickles Without Freaking Out
If you’re like me — and I know I am — then you have spent a non-zero amount of time during this pandemic feeling like your productivity is swirling down the proverbial toilet. Early in the quarantine era I decided to tackle vegetable fermenting, a thing I had long been interested in but had previously…
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Defrost Frozen Meat Faster With a Hot Water Bath
Buying meat when it’s on sale and then freezing it for when you need it is great…in theory. In practice, it’s difficult (some might even say impossible) to remember to thaw frozen meat ahead of time. The recommended method — thawing frozen meat overnight in the fridge — can take more than a day. It…