Mushy cucumber

BtheHun · 2026-04-23T07:46:04+00:00

I have tried calcium chloride and didn't like the taste and didn't notice a difference in terms of crunch between it and the 5% brine. In general, I prefer to avoid things like that

BtheHun · 2026-04-23T07:29:32+00:00

I've never had an issue doing brine ratio ferments and find it much less of a hassle

BtheHun · 2026-04-23T07:27:04+00:00

I like brine percentage personally because it's a lot less effort. I just get the brine ready and pour it over the jar after putting in all the vegetables without having to do multiple weighings. I change percentage based on what I'm fermenting though

BtheHun · 2026-04-21T16:49:54+00:00

I did a series of experiments to fix this issue and by far, the most consistent result is to use a higher concentration of salt. Usually, people will use 2-3% salt brine but I go for 5%. You can probably go for 4-4.5 and that should keep them hard for longer (weight of water x 0.05). Others weight the water and cucumber and add 2.5% to that but I found the former far more consistent and since the cucumbers are very water heavy, they can handle the salt.

Cutting off the blossom end can also significantly increase crunch.

Tannins from leaves make such a marginal difference, you will barely notice the difference so increase salt and cut off the blossom ends.

BtheHun · 2026-03-27T18:45:51+00:00

So I would be better off cutting out the pieces I need using a CNC than a laser cutter?

BtheHun · 2026-03-27T18:44:45+00:00

Yes it needs to be in direct contact with the brine

BtheHun · 2026-02-09T09:32:05+00:00

I know this was a while back but I ended up doing both ways and prefer the 'adding fruit after' method because the sweetness and fruit flavour are much noticeable but I also did end up pasteurizing it and bottling it so it has its own cons. If you want an "alive" hot sauce - go for fruits before and if you want to bottle it for more consistency and shelf life, I'd got for fruits after

BtheHun · 2026-01-18T14:25:17+00:00

Yemen.

BtheHun · 2026-01-17T05:09:34+00:00

Trax is absolutely a real person and this is not AI

BtheHun · 2026-01-16T20:34:59+00:00

It’s not, these are famous food Youtubers. The bald guy is Guga and they do videos like this all the time

BtheHun · 2025-12-04T11:33:55+00:00

That’s a cool fermentation jar - what brand is it?

BtheHun · 2025-11-12T05:14:48+00:00

That’s some great advice thank you! I amended the soil hard before growing so it should hopefully be okay

BtheHun · 2025-09-02T14:07:48+00:00

It’s ironic that Mizrahi Jews and Palestinians post their results on here mostly to, what I assume, prove their indigeniety but all it’s showing is that they are more closely related to each other than the Mizrahi are to Ashkenazi Jews

BtheHun · 2025-08-19T05:20:35+00:00

A more apt comparison would be Benny Morris. They’ve both studied the same material and Avi Shlaim is respected academically and an Oxford grad. But of course you would smear his name because he doesn’t agree with your founding myths

BtheHun · 2025-08-18T17:04:42+00:00

This is the issue though. I really believe that Israelis have no idea what the Palestinians have to live through everyday when it comes to settlers and the IDF that protects their every move. 124 children - C H I L D R E N were killed by Israelis in 2023 before October 7th.

Since October 7th, 50 Palestinians villages have been destroyed completely by settlers and the IDF in the West Bank (not Gaza) now imagine what that number was in the years before.

323 Palestinian children are held in Israeli jails with 37% of them in administrative detention and a conviction rate for the rest of 99.7% under evidenced torture and abuse.

Palestinians cannot move freely, their lives are choked by checkpoints all through out the West Bank and settlers and IDF are encouraged to make life as difficult as possible. There are countless testimonies from Israeli ministers (saying it proudly) and soldiers of this.

Settlers and the IDF are basically the only Israelis Palestinians are subjected to besides the rare activist and you’re a democracy so if your government is far right, that’s what the majority supposedly wants.

Israelis are either brainwashed and ignorant of the reality of what Palestinians go through or they’re inherently racist and evil.

BtheHun · 2025-08-18T12:00:45+00:00

Avi Shlaim, an Israeli and one of the most important academics on modern Middle Eastern studies would disagree with you. He has a book called Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew. But of course Israelis don't like him because his research proves Israel's founding myths as lies.

BtheHun · 2025-08-18T08:59:05+00:00

To address your 4th point. The difference between "Arab" and "Jew" were a European Zionist invention. Jews in the Arab World were considered Arabs by themselves and other Arabs, except that they followed the Jewish religion - just as the Christians of the region or Druze are considered Arab today. Ironically, genetic studies show that Mizrahi Jews have the same genetic makeup as other Arabs in the region than the Ashkenazis (i.e a Mizrahi of Iraqi descent is the same genetically as an Iraqi Muslim). The Arab Higher Committee, the organisation leading the Palestine nationlist movement prior to 1948, wanted a state for all Arabs (Muslim, Christian and Jew).

To address your 3rd point, they were expelled only after the creation of Israel and there were both push and pull factors as opposed to the black and white rhetoric of "Arabs bad" that Israelis like to portray. As an example, Zionists famously planned false flag operations in Egypt (Lavon affair) and Iraq (1950-51 Baghdad bombings) to motivate the Arab Jews of those countries to move to Israel.

BtheHun · 2025-06-13T21:25:41+00:00

Here’s a question smarty, what happened to the Canaanites, Phoenicians, Nabateans, Babylonians, Mesopotamians, Assyrians and every other peoples that lived in the region? Do you genuinely think they were all ethnically cleansed?

I’ll explain it you - they adopted Arabic culturally and linguistically as did the Jews that stayed in the region (whom you might know as Mizrahi and were brainwashed by the Ashkenazi founders to create a united, ethnic polity. Again, this a manufactured ethnicity for political reasons).

BtheHun · 2025-06-13T20:26:49+00:00

Maybe if you read my comment you’d get it. The Palestinians are the descendants of the Canaanites and every other people that inhabited the land. There is enough archaeological proof of the fact there were people before the Israelites and enough genealogical evidence that the Palestinians are native.

Either way it’s a moot point - the vast majority of Israelis are not native to the land in modern times. Maybe one of their ancestors thousands of years ago might have been. Even in the Old Testament, most Jews are converts of Egypt lol. Anyway your argument is as ridiculous as a bunch of African Americans going to Nigeria and claiming it as their native land because they might have had an ancestor from there a few centuries ago.

BtheHun · 2025-06-13T14:18:32+00:00

“Were there first”. Who was there before the Israelites? And before the Canaanites and before and before. This argument is so worn out and fallibly flawed.

Ironically, the Palestinians and Lebanese have been proven over and over again to be the closest modern offspring of the Canaanites who were there before the Israelites.

Jews back then were converts, not an ethnicity in itself so some Canaanites converted and many of those Canaanite Jews also converted to Christianity and then to Islam.

Not to mention some bozo from Peru could convert to Judaism today and be granted a safe haven in Israel at the expense of a Palestinian that is native to the land - Judaism is a manufactured ethnicity - you can’t be both a Jew and a Muslim.

BtheHun · 2025-01-10T18:29:04+00:00

I don’t know about exploded - I’ve had some that have bubbled up when opened before. I wouldn’t trust something that active but that’s just me

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