Why cucumbers in a jar become cloudy: 5 main reasons

Iryna MelnichenkoLS Food
Pickled cucumbers
Pickled cucumbers. Source: rootsandrefuge.com

Canned cucumbers are a delicious winter snack that almost all housewives prepare in the summer. Cucumbers can be canned with tomatoes, salted, and pickled. But very often the brine in cucumbers becomes cloudy for a number of reasons.

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The FoodOboz editorial team shares with you useful tips on how to avoid clouding the brine in jars of cucumbers.

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Top 3 reasons:

1. Before preserving, you did not wash the cucumbers properly, and as a result, the harmful microorganisms that multiplied provoked the development of the putrefactive process.

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2. Poorly washed jars after detergent.

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3. The lids for the jars were not rolled up properly, and the brine became cloudy as a result of contact with air.

4. Preserving spices can cause cloudiness if they have not been well processed before canning.

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5. Salt can also ruin delicious cucumbers if you used sea salt instead of iodized salt.

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