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 ๐Ÿค”) #fail #cooking
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
@ai6yr oh neat, making pickled radishes is my weekend project along with tomatoes and cucumbers.
@ai6yr maybe I should stay on the counter overnight.
@glasspusher @ai6yr ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ™‰๐Ÿ™Š
@ai6yr Usually made from daikon, which can be sharp but are not bitter.
@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.