Fermentation is contagious

With the success of my first batch of pickles, I made a bunch of family members come test out my pickles to get their opinions and suggestions. I guess that inspired my mother in law who decided to make pickled cabbage. Another one of my favorites from Russia. Her jar is going into the closet to keep my pickles company!

Trial 2 Week 2

Here is an update from my second trial of pickles but team crunchy this time! Like the last time there are bubbles formed at the top and the water is looking much murkier. I took these pictures today, so the final result will not be done before the last lab, but I'll try to remember to update you all about the success of my 2nd trial. I hope it'll work!

Trial #2

So after my success with the first batch (which I was so excited about since fermentation seemed so gross to me in the beginning and I was worried that I would do something wrong and poison myself) I decided to better my results by fixing the one problem I had with the first batch : crunchiness. I looked everywhere for the right cucumbers until one day I went to Costco to grocery shop and saw little baby cucumbers in the cooler. They are so crunchy usually and looked like the perfect little guys for my project. I hurried home and repeated the method, however I added a bunch of the spices, dill and garlic from my pickled jar to add more flavor and to see what would happen.

Here is a picture of the jar ready to go into the dark closet for a while.

Waaaay overdue pictures

Guys! I decided to wait a little bit longer than the mere minimum suggestion just because I like my pickles extra sour and tangy, so 4 weeks later I finally tried them! Delicious but kind of squishy. I think that I waited too long to start the process so my cucumbers weren't as crunchy to begin with. I also couldn't find any pickling cucumbers since they are out of season in the winter up here so I had to use the European ones cut up. I'll have to think of something better for the next trial run. Here is a picture pre tasting! They look well pickled if I do say so myself.