AI6YR BenMay 27
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
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
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@ai6yr Usually made from daikon, which can be sharp but are not bitter.
May 27 at 10:38pmWeb
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.