Now they have visible specks of mold and I guess I should probably assume it extends beyond the surface
Curse my procrastinating, food wasting ass
But what if it's not just on the surface and I get sick :c I was just gonna quick pickle em I don't have time for no canning process
You will see it when you shave the skin, if it’s deep or just surface mold. Mold is not very good with bulk penetration in fruits/vegetables, it needs air
I"d imagine the acid and salt in the brine should kill anything really bad.
(And I've just scraped off fuzz off the top of pickle juice to get to the pickled stuff underneath and it didn't seem to hurt me.)
The texture or taste of the pickles might be affected. But you shouldn't get sick.
It might have worked out but I didn't want to mess around peeling cucumbers and the internet said visible mold = that shit's too old. I at least think I salvaged the radishes I also left too long in the fridge, they didn't get moldy but the greens did turn into nasty stank water. I just washed them super good so hopefully they're fine and didn't absorb too much Nasty. Pickled them like I was gonna do with the cucumbers.
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You wanna pickle as soon as you get your cucumbers. If you pick them or get farm fresh you wanna pickle the next day.
It's the real secret to making them crunchy.
As for your pickles just cut off the skins, wash them in running water and make refrigerator pickle chips or cucumber and onion in vinegar for cold cucumber "salad"
All hope is not lost!
I threw them away already because I don't have a vegetable peeler and didn't want to spend time peeling them and inspecting them with a knife (esp. since I doubt my ability to visually verify internal mold). I'll just try to make sure I don't buy food and put off using it for too long again, it's just hard sometimes :/ I really fucked up because I bought pre-washed greens to use without realizing the best by date was within the next 3-4 days and I didn't feel like doing anything until after that...
I did however save the radishes I also bought for salad purposes, the greens turned into gross nasty water but the bulbs looked okay so I washed them really well and pickled them. Hopefully they're not also ruined by sitting in their own nasty rotting liquid :/