Posted on 01/27/2023 10:45:11 AM PST by DallasBiff
Dill pickles can be found in most grocery store refrigerators across America. The crunchy, tart condiment veggie is perfect on a snack plate, on cheeseburgers, or even on its own. But after trying nine different dill pickles, I learned that not all brands are created equally.
The top brand from my taste test was the easy favorite with my friends and family who participated and let's just say the bottom brand isn't one I will be buying again, even if it's the only jar left on the shelves at the grocery store. Keep reading to find out the best tasting dill pickles that should always be in your refrigerator. (Plus, if you are looking for tips on losing your gut, check out Eating Habits to Lose Abdominal Fat As You Age, Say Dietitians.)
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Why do I have a feeling your homemade pickles let too much of the cucumber flavor through? I have had several people give me their homemade pickles, as you describe them, and they all tasted like a cucumber. Cucumbers are nasty. They need the dill pickling process with tons of vinegar, garlic, and salt to cover up their “cucumberness”. Blech.
I grow my own cucumbers and dill and IMHO make the best dill pickles, particularly owing to the fact that I use 3 times as much dill as recommended.
I made over 80 quarts last season, and have been sharing, seems everyone I share agrees with me that my dills are the best.
I had to learn how to make pickles as when I was living in Thailand it was difficult and expensive to buy dill pickles.
Our neighbors had a party last year and the hostess served “pickletinis” — martinis with pickle juice. I don’t think anybody asked for seconds.
She’s really into pickling things and does a great job. She served pickled asparagus a week ago at a dinner party.
My advice is to skip the pickletinis.
Nalleys Dill Pickles are good enough and are better than Clausens in Potato Salad. Enough said, pickles are for going into tuna salad for sandwiches and tator salad. Too bad they are no longer made in the US. The factory was once in the Pacific NW.
De gustibus non est disputandum
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In matters of taste, there can be no disputes.
Nothing compares with any naturally fermented pickle.
I forgot if it was Vlasic but it was the vodka poured straight into jar minus the pickles, only the juice and brine. Was tasty but that was 30 years ago lol
Duke Ziebert was famous for his pickles - his restaurant was a favorite pol/celebrity watering hole in DC:
I actually despise Claussen pickles.
My favorite for a great many years is Mt. Olive kosher dills, but the past couple of years I have also purchased Walmart's Great Value brand kosher dills. I still buy Mt. Olive when they are BOBO on sale at Publix. The first thing I do is look on the label to make sure the pickle doesn't have Alum.
Mt. Olive is the largest independent pickle company in the United States and the top-selling pickle brand in the Southeastern United States, where its market share approaches 70 percent.I seem to be in good company.
Everyone to his own taste, sayeth the man who kissed the cow.
You don’t like kerosene cucumbers?
I’ll give you credit. You made the meme resspctible.
Bubbies are good!
I bought some just for kicks. I figured, one commercial pickel is as bad as another.
The dang things were GOOD! They tasted very close to some pickel barrel recipes I’d made in the past.
Commercial recepies have changed. I’m not sure what they are doing differently, but they have a nasty background flavor. And they eliminated the onion rings from B&Bs.
Cheese recipes have changed as well. They taste...nasty. I’ve always been a cheese lover and a pickel lover and I can hardly eat either!
I like sweet pickles alot. Don’t care much for dill at all.
sounds like a recipe for heartburn...
I hate Supermarket pickles, except Ba-Tampte in a pinch.
Claussen, Vlassic, all the rest are just gross vinegar sponges.
Like Irish Butter vs regular butter
Hellmann’s vs Miracle Snot
or Macallan vs anything else (Glenfiddich in a pinch).
Why put that crapola in your system?
But don’t ya’ll evah speak poorly about Taco Bell’s Pink Slime.
Thems would be fightin’ words!
“I know a chef who marinates chicken breasts in pickle juice. They’re always delicious.”
That’s why Chic F La gives out so many pickles. It’s the secret to their chicken
If you want a real treat, add powdered mustard to homemade pickles.
Since I suffer from Thrust as a result of taking Symbicort for my COPD, I eat lots of pickles to counter that.
The vinegar helps kill it.
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