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.
There's no exact recipe, but what I do is heat the brine on the stove and then add coconut oil, nooche, and xanthan gum. Blend it all together with an egg beater and then pour it into the jars I save while it's still hot so as it cools the jars seal themselves.
I'm still experimenting with the exact balance of ingredients, but this recent batch was 1 part oil and 1 part nooche to 2 parts brine. I put the nooche in a coffee grinder first so it's an extremely fine powder, then xanthan gum is sprinkled into the mix as it's blending until it's nice and thick.
Omfg, that sounds incredible. Thank you for typing this up, I am so fucking stoked to try it. I think kid and I will really like it and husband will see have a spiritual experience that alters the course of his cuisine forever.