Pickle peppers with raw water or cold boiled water. What will happen if you pickle peppers with raw water?

We all know that there are many ways to eat peppers, and pickling is one of the more popular ways. Many people pickle peppers at home. There are many ways to pickle peppers, and different methods will have different flavors and tastes. So should we use raw water or cooked water to pickle peppers? Let's take a closer look!

Should I use raw or cooked water to pickle peppers?

You can just put raw water in pickled peppers. I have been pickling peppers for decades and have never put cooked water in them. There is no need to put cooked water in them. Many people may think that there should be no bacteria or microorganisms harmful to the human body in cooked water. Pickling peppers in cooked water will prevent the peppers from rotting or make them more nutritious. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. When we pickle peppers, we put a lot of brine and salt, and pickled peppers cannot be sterilely operated and preserved. Besides, are there no bacteria and harmful microorganisms in cooked water? Therefore, don't consider the issue of raw water and cooked water when pickling peppers. Our human body itself cannot do without bacteria, let alone pickles.

How to make pickled peppers

Ingredients used: 5000 grams of fresh chili peppers, 1000 grams of coarse salt, and 2500 grams of brine (made by mixing 500 grams of salt with 2000 grams of water).

practice:

① After washing the fresh peppers, place them on a bamboo mat to dry for a day to allow some of the water to evaporate. This will make the pickled peppers taste better.

② After cleaning the container for pickled peppers, sprinkle a layer of salt on the bottom of the container, then place the dried peppers evenly, sprinkle a layer of salt on top of the peppers, and follow these steps to place the peppers (to control the amount of salt used, only half of the salt, that is, 500 grams, is enough). Then use stones to compact the peppers, and then pour in salt water so that all the peppers are soaked in the salt water.

③After the peppers have been pickled for one day, take them out and pour them out of the jar. On the third day, take the peppers out again and put them in a basket to drain the salt water. On the fourth day, put the peppers in the jar again, pour in the salt water used the first time, and sprinkle with the remaining half of the salt. After pickling for about 20 days, they can be eaten.

What to pay attention to when pickling peppers

① After washing the peppers, dry them in the sun for a day. This will allow some moisture to evaporate, which is beneficial for pickling.

② After the peppers have been pickled for a day, you need to turn the jar over, that is, take the peppers out and put them back in. This will make the peppers more flavorful.

③ On the third day, take out the peppers and dry them in the sun. This will allow the moisture inside the peppers to completely overflow and the brine to enter the interior of the peppers. After a day of drying, the peppers will become tough.

④ After a day of drying, place the peppers in a jar, add brine and remaining salt, so that they can be pickled for a long time.

⑤ If you want to keep the pickled peppers fresh, you must pay attention to the storage temperature of the peppers. Do not store them in places with too high temperatures. If the temperature is too high, the peppers will turn yellow easily, so they need to be stored in places with lower temperatures. This will keep the pickled peppers from spoiling easily.