Savoie, Dumas discuss how to make quick pickles with BDN
Kathleen Savoie, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator, and Rob Dumas, food science innovation coordinator and pilot plant manager, spoke with the Bangor Daily News about how to make quick pickles. Unlike standard fermented pickles, quick pickles, also known as refrigerator or quick process pickles, are made “using acetic acid from vinegar” instead of “lactic acid from fermentation,” according to the BDN. “When you quick pickle something, you’re basically just packing prepared vegetables into a prepared brine and refrigerating them,” Savoie said. Dumas recommends quick pickling radishes, peppers and red cabbage among others.