Not trying to judge, just trying to understand where we are in the spectrum of human behavior - when you eat a jar of pickles or olives or whatever, what do you do with the brine? Do you dump it, use it for something else, or drink it?
I know someone who saves it to drink it later. He is my husband. Honestly, even after 20 years together, I didn't realize this about him. I thought the stockpile in the door was just a collection of forgotten empty jars, and I've been dumping them as such.
Which is it:
- I'm a terrible wasteful sinner?
- He's a freak?
- Neither/Both, there's a special middle ground?
No judgement or emotional attachment here, he can have an entire shelf of the fridge for brine jars, idgaf. It just never occurred to me to that I should consider stockpiling brine.
Are you stockpiling brine? What do you do with it? "I'll drink some with breakfast tomorrow," is a perfectly acceptable answer. Just curious if yours is different.
This one is new to me! What is it like?
Idk if he's ever tried that, but I'm going to tell him about it, this sounds like a thing he would do.
It's like drinking the broth of a bean soup! Beany and proteiny. If you drink enough of it, you wind up looking like this:
All my friends make fun of me for drinking the bean juice but they're just jealous
They definitely are, that's peak performance right there.
You've sold me, we're going to try it! Thanks for the tip.
If you save your bean juice (aquafaba is just bean juice!) you can add it to soups or sub it into your rice cooking water.