Is this adjutable? I want to make pickle chips. Thanks!
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Yes. You would have no trouble making pickle chips, either smooth or ripple.
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Yes, there is a dial on the side that allows you to adjust the depth of the slice. I've made potato chips from it as well as french fries!
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I'm not sure that it would keep them from turning mushy. I've never used pickle crisp for anything but pickled recipes, but store bought tomatoes often do contain calcium chloride. Maybe do some research on the use of calcium chloride in canning. That might turn up some better answers than just searching for uses for pickle crisp. Good luck!
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I can't say that I've used it for pickles, but I love this device. I have used it on carrots (I cut 4 carrots at a time), zucchini and cucumbers. I would think the answer to your question is that you could use it for the purpose you mentioned.
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I have not done fries, but I just looked on the box and it shows fairly skinny fries. I love making sweet potato chips though! I love the mandoline. I don't use it often enough to be really familiar with it, but I do really like it for what I do.
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I just tried mine on pickle size cucumbers (which is what I wanted it for) and it works great, but they're too thin. Only about 1/16 inch, so sadly, I'm going to send it back and get one of the adjustables. If you were going to make potato chips and wanted things thin, this works great and it's all they said it would be, from what I can see.
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hi-- regular salt has an additive for better flow. also,usually has iodine, both of which will cloud the liquid. iodine is also not good for fermenting pickles, as it is an anti-microbal (you want the good probiotics to thrive). you don't have to use "pickling salt" per se: kosher, pure salt and sea salt with no additives are fine. an excellent book is "the joy of pickling" by linda ziedrich.
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It's an air lock. I don't see why that wouldn't work as long as it is good fit in the lid. I don't know anything about making pickles though.
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If you wanted to make chips this will do a great job. As for fries, these slicers do not have the blades as I have seen on other slicers to cut them into strips. I guess you could cut them into big chips and then cut them again into strips.
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I use mine for homemade bab sauce without issue. It's about as thick as ketchup.
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I mainly use it to spice up my vinegar which I use for pickling. I luv this on pickled mangos
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Absolutely you can, no problem. If you read the instruction book for the Stir Crazy, they even mention it in one of the recipes for Bacon and Blue Cheese popcorn.
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Well, good question. I don't use this for pickling - we place this on the floor, and have a beer bottle opener mounted above it. The crock is used to catch the bottle caps. Happy lid hunting!
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Sure.. it will work fine. Pretend you're making potato chips. Cut them about 1/8" thick and lay them out on the trays. You can do thicker but it takes longer and you risk case hardening. ( Basically the outside dries too fast and traps in the interior moisture. ) Dry them slowly at a low temp first to get most of the moisture out and then a higher temp ( 140 F ) to finish them up.
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Lorim: I have what they call in the stone trade an "Ogee with an apron," which is similar to a bull nose. I have no problems using my scrap trap. I usually move my cutting board slightly over the edge of the counter and I can just scrape garbage right into my scrap trap. I have also just scraped the garbage without moving the cutting board and it works. For the price it's worth a try and I think you will absolutely love it.
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Actually, other than processing speed, I think that's the Perfect Pickler's best attribute--it's vertually odorless. A huge plus when working with certain vegetables, especially the cruciferous variety.
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I just made sweet potato chips yesterday. I sliced them as thinly as I could, rubbed olive oil on them, and sprinkled some with sea salt and some with cinnamon. I dried them for about 11 hours, I think. They're pretty good, but I think that if I could have gotten them thinner they might have been better. They're very crunchy, but "hard" crunchy. This might be the norm for sweet potato chips, as packaged ones I've had are certainly harder than potato chips. I'm going to look for suggestions for better results, but I think this was a successful first try.
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I would guess no. It's made out of very cheap chip board. Terrible purchase. I would have been better off making my own.