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Wait, you can drink brine? I assumed it was like seawater. Brb gonna cut my water bill in half and then get hypernatremia.

I don't do much with pickles at all, so I have never had the problem of dealing with brine

twenty years of wasted brine

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.

Olive brine goes in dirty martinis. Pickle brine can go in savory mixed drinks like Bloody Marys.

Combine with buttermilk and hot sauce and soak your chicken in it for awhile before frying.

It's beautiful.

Brine is a powerful anti-hangover weapon.

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.

Okay, I get it, you think I'm weird. You didn't have to make an account on my commie shitposting site to publicly shame me.

I do not fucking DRINK the brine, I use it as a marinade or to pickle red onions, the brine of which also makes a great marinade

a shot of pickle brine helps with bad leg cramps

I keep a few jars of pickle brine around for when I need to replenish electrolytes. I don't as much any more since I am not running as often or as long distances. But my former roommate always kept a giant pickle jar that he would top off with normal sized jars of pickles he would buy, because he was a really serious runner that would always drink some after doing 10+ mile runs.

So, I guess middle ground?

Brine is like nature's Gatorade. When I'm hungover I crave that shit. So it's good for him!

Throw some baby carrots in there. Boom, pickled carrots. Great with a sandwich.

I save brine from pickled peppers and use it to make a delicious spicy sauce.

Lots you can do with some brine in cooking...super secret weapon in lots of sauces and soups and similar things. I wouldn't dump a whole jar of it in but a splash of brine could add much needed salt and acid to pretty much anything.

I don't use it for this because I don't make enough stuff that would benefit from it to but that's certainly something I could see using it for.

To DRINK it though? Doesn't sound good for you but I guess a little as a treat now and again sounds like am exciting palate hit so why not

I like pickles and I feel like I've had some kind of shot that involves pickle brine in the past but I dont generally save brine nah

Have you considered a pickling hobby? The hard work is over, just throw some new stuff in there. My favs to pickle are daikons and okra.

I use it to make macaroni salad

I do keep the brine to drink, especially like Claussens pickles, it's a great drinkable juice. But most people in my house think it's weird and also insist on dumping it if it's been there for more than like a day to make room in the fridge, since nobody else but me drinks it.

Recipe for a shit ton of bbq sauce:

A half cup or so of pickle brine (doesn’t matter what kind, the more flavorful the better) A Half cup or so of brown sugar to taste Some salt One little baby can of tomato paste One little stubby can of chipotles in adobo Some apple sided vinegar Whatever else makes you happy, some chili flakes, coffee syrup, canned peaches, whatever

Get the brine and sugar combined over low heat in a little pot. Add the chipotles and tomato paste, purée with a stick blender (you could also do this cold in a blender I guess). Add salt to taste, whatever you have on hand to make it spicy (stop early with the spice, it will grow) or whatever else, then add either more brine or apple cider vinegar and brown sugar to balance the flavor and get the texture how you want it.

Makes four to six little jars. They’re acidic enough to do water bath canning.

I pickle/brine other things with it, sometimes including meats.

There tends to not be enough pickle juice for all the stuff I would rather pickle than lose, so I don't really accumulate it. I do accumulate empty jars in my pantry, though.

he never complained about you dumping them out?

Deeply antisocial behavior. Divorce him at once, for your own safety

Sometimes I'll throw some new cucumber slices in there, but usually I throw it away.

You can reuse brine for all kinds of stuff, especially veggies, garlic, asparagus, etc. You could also probably use it for sauces or cocktails but I haven't tried either of those.

Brine is delicious, but I don't stockpile it. It's awesome for cooking (so many flavors!), so I'll often add some of the brine instead of tap water and cut some of the salt from the recipe.

If you want something productive with it that doesn't seem weird, boil some vegetable waste in the brine to make vegetable stock.

Pickle brine is great for salads, especially bulgur. But no I don't stockpile it. Olive brine is really salty though? I don't know how it is in other countries but there really isn't much brine to speak of and its really salty.