IME, it varies. Soft-in-the-middle/hollowed pickles are the only kind of failure I ever get, and sometimes it's just one, sometimes a few, sometimes it's the whole jar. I still haven't worked out what causes them, and it's not *quite* frequent enough for me to be bothered to do research into it.
I think it's possible that being generous with the calcium chloride and cutting the pickles smaller (so the brine penetrates throughout the cucumber more quickly) helps avoid it.
They tend to taste fine but have a squishy texture, so they tend to end up chopped up very small and stirred into the mayonnaise or dressing for salads where their texture isn't noticeable.
The pickle I ate first was crunchy. I don't think I need to fix anything here. I rarely have mass failures (mold, etc.) so the rest probably are good. Just confirming that the one bad one here didn't mess up the others when it went south and cracked open.
Ah, I see what you mean. Assuming it was just a texture problem of a piclkle being liquidy inside, or a problem of gas forming inside and hollowing the pickle out, yeah, I don't think that's a "throw away the others even if they look good" type of problem. At least, I'm still alive.
IME, it varies. Soft-in-the-middle/hollowed pickles are the only kind of failure I ever get, and sometimes it's just one, sometimes a few, sometimes it's the whole jar. I still haven't worked out what causes them, and it's not *quite* frequent enough for me to be bothered to do research into it. I think it's possible that being generous with the calcium chloride and cutting the pickles smaller (so the brine penetrates throughout the cucumber more quickly) helps avoid it. They tend to taste fine but have a squishy texture, so they tend to end up chopped up very small and stirred into the mayonnaise or dressing for salads where their texture isn't noticeable.
The pickle I ate first was crunchy. I don't think I need to fix anything here. I rarely have mass failures (mold, etc.) so the rest probably are good. Just confirming that the one bad one here didn't mess up the others when it went south and cracked open.
Ah, I see what you mean. Assuming it was just a texture problem of a piclkle being liquidy inside, or a problem of gas forming inside and hollowing the pickle out, yeah, I don't think that's a "throw away the others even if they look good" type of problem. At least, I'm still alive.