Cook Cucumbers to Make Pickles

Video Transcript

"You don’t want to cook your pickles- your cucumbers- too much because that will make them lose their crispiness. Just a little boil will help getting them sanitized will be plenty enough- sterilized is the word. A little boil will be enough. Something important- you want the level of your liquid as close to the lid as you can physically make it. if that means adding one extra piece, than do it. this is important because if you have less air, there’s less chance for it becoming contaminated. So here, we put the lid back. We don’t finish tightening up either. We just let this loose and then we put it back inside the pressure cooker. "