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are you conserving brine to drink (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not trying to judge, just trying to understand where we are in the spectrum of human behavior - when you eat a jar of pickles or olives or whatever, what do you do with the brine? Do you dump it, use it for something else, or drink it?

I know someone who saves it to drink it later. He is my husband. Honestly, even after 20 years together, I didn't realize this about him. I thought the stockpile in the door was just a collection of forgotten empty jars, and I've been dumping them as such.

Which is it:

I'm a terrible wasteful sinner?
He's a freak?
Neither/Both, there's a special middle ground?

No judgement or emotional attachment here, he can have an entire shelf of the fridge for brine jars, idgaf. It just never occurred to me to that I should consider stockpiling brine.

Are you stockpiling brine? What do you do with it? "I'll drink some with breakfast tomorrow," is a perfectly acceptable answer. Just curious if yours is different.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Sometimes I'll drink the pickle brine, yeah. Shit's delicious. I also drink the bean juice after cracking a fresh can of black beans.

This is such a wholesome post I love this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

drink the bean juice

This one is new to me! What is it like?

Idk if he's ever tried that, but I'm going to tell him about it, this sounds like a thing he would do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

If you save your bean juice (aquafaba is just bean juice!) you can add it to soups or sub it into your rice cooking water.

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