Friday, July 08, 2016

How Many Different Ways Can You Pickle A Watermelon?

Some of my experiments lately have involved pickling watermelon. I have probably tried every method in the book.

  1. Regular pickling liquor
  2. Pickling liquor with added herbs and spices
  3. 3:2:1 pickling liquor: acid, sugar, water
  4. Regular pickling under compression
  5.  Pickling with herbs under compression
  6. 3:2:1  pickling under compression
  7. Compression then pickling
  8. Quick compression
Every method makes the watermelon a different color or texture; ranging from pastel pink to tuna pink and firm to mushy. The truth is, it is incredibly difficult to pickle something that is 99% water!

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