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Originally Posted by DoubleF
"Pickles" = Pickling + cucumber
Pickled X = Pickling + X
I've seen pickled egg, onions, radish, carrots, potatoes etc.
I guess in some senses, pickling is a method to "modify food for consumption" in the same sense that you can sear a bunch of different foods on a pan, or boiling different foods in hot water?
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Pickles = Pickling + cucumber. But what you use in the pickoing (dill, garlic, etc..) is what actually affects the flavor.
If I say I love pickles, most people would ask what kind.
I love pickled carrots, but only dill pickled carrots.
So to say that you like pickled eggs leaves a large caveat for the type of flavors being used. Some may love dill pickled eggs (I believe these are called deviled eggs), but hate all other types of pickled eggs.
So again, to say you love/hate pickled eggs, to me makes no sense. No more sense than to say I love pickles. Well, what kind of pickles?
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Originally Posted by northcrunk
Pickling is just the process of preserving food with vinegar and salt or sugar. Whatever you add to it is just flavour.
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Right. So is that all a pickled egg is? Vinegar salt and sugar?