# Pickled ginger, first attempt

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickled-ginger-first-attempt/613232>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 18, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickled-ginger-first-attempt/613232 "2012-02-18T05:07:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickled-ginger-first-attempt/613232/1 "2012-02-18T05:07:06Z")

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And it went pretty dang good. All the recipes I see call for young, tender ginger and rice wine vinegar. Well, I had grocery store ginger and apple cider vinegar.

I was fairly impressed when I tried a piece after it had just cooled down to room temp, and it was getting a bit of pink color even though the rice wine vinegar is supposed to be a player on the color.

I’ll let this steep for a bit and get some rice wine vinegar next trip to the store, but this stuff is actually edible.

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**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickled-ginger-first-attempt/613232/2 "2012-02-18T14:38:19Z")

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Pickled ginger, edible?! :eek: Those words do not belong in the same sentence.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickled-ginger-first-attempt/613232/3 "2012-02-18T15:39:39Z")

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Awesome! Is this a recipe for “refrigerator pickles”, or for water-bath canning to actually preserve it? I might be tempted to give it a try if I can store some jars of it for longer-term.

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickled-ginger-first-attempt/613232/4 "2012-02-18T19:09:17Z")

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I could never eat pickled ginger, but I did Japanese-style pickled cucumbers that were pretty good. I need to try them again with non-seasoned rice vinegar and Japanese cucumbers instead of English. I couldn’t finish them before they got too pickled.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickled-ginger-first-attempt/613232/5 "2012-02-18T19:53:41Z")

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Geeze, I know they don’t have souls, but this still seems a little cruel…

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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickled-ginger-first-attempt/613232/6 "2012-02-19T03:12:02Z")

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Recipe or link?

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickled-ginger-first-attempt/613232/7 "2012-02-19T17:29:05Z")

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> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#):
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> Recipe or link?

[Here ya go](http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSkvAoiSa4O5K4eD4x9vR7nkkrwy7O9l-4BLKpo2sSl8S7Ml95tmwLKvs7tdw).

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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickled-ginger-first-attempt/613232/8 "2012-02-20T03:34:45Z")

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> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> [Here ya go](http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSkvAoiSa4O5K4eD4x9vR7nkkrwy7O9l-4BLKpo2sSl8S7Ml95tmwLKvs7tdw).

lulz