AI6YR Ben
Attempted to make Japanese pickled radish (takuan) tonight, and just realized that if your radish are bitter, your pickles will be bitter too. (need to harvest those radish before they go to seed, I suspect. On the plus side, we will have about 100,000 radishes volunteering themselves in a year 🤔) #fail #cooking
May 27 at 4:19amWeb
Show threadAI6YR BenMay 27
WAIT! Maybe not a loss after all. I left this on the counter overnight, and on a whim tasted some of what had been extremely bitter radish... and it has no bitterness now! #pickles
Show thread🌈🕯️Curious Magpie🕯️🌈May 27
@ai6yr oh neat, making pickled radishes is my weekend project along with tomatoes and cucumbers.
Show threadglasspshrMay 27
@ai6yr maybe I should stay on the counter overnight.
Show threadDarth OslerMay 27
@glasspusher @ai6yr 🙈🙉🙊
Show threadohesoMay 27
@ai6yr Usually made from daikon, which can be sharp but are not bitter.
Show threadAI6YR BenMay 27
@oheso Yes, these are bitter daikon plants. No idea why they went bitter. But, they are fine now, the salt has drawn out all the bitterness, I think.
Show threadDark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈May 27
@ai6yr
One year, I planted Daikons and Spanish Blacks.
Both mild (and large) varieties. The next year I got volunteers.
Quite a few. They looked like average sized white icicle radishes that someone had run a greasy (black) finger down in a couple places.
It seems that the prior year's radishes had cross pollinated. And I got several of the mutants.
Those MFs were so HOT, the only way to eat them was pickled or sliced thin into a stir fry.
Show threadAI6YR BenMay 27
@Darkphoenix Hahahaha! Hot I can handle, but... bitter, I cannot.
Show threadcrispy branzino ☭ (sold out forever)May 27
@ai6yr maybe salvageable as a tsukemono? Or kasuzuke?
Show threadAI6YR BenMay 27
@Nimbius666 TBD. will see how it tastes in the morning. It's soaking in sugar brine.