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.

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

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.

2. Poorly washed jars after detergent.

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.

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

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