On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:46:04 -0700, Oregonian Haruspex
> wrote:

>On 2014-10-27 17:51:24 +0000, James Silverton said:
>
>> I have been told not to keep cucumbers in the fridge. Well, I tried it
>> by keeping a cucumber in the fruit bowl on the counter top. This
>> afternoon after a couple of days, I discovered a healthy crop of white
>> mold on the unused cucumber. I am going to use the fridge!!!
>
>There is an art and science devoted to keeping cucumbers. Pickling!
>
>I have also noticed that they turn bad quite quickly, be it in the
>fridge or on the counter. Now I just lacto-ferment them in a brine
>with the proper bacterial culture.

You don't need a bacterial culture, just a proper brine.

koko

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