Results: Pickle juice
Published on 10/13/2016
I'm trying to find ways to make use of the juice in pickle jars, after the pickles have been used up, and thought I might as well bounce a few ideas off on the community here.
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1.
1.
Have you ever reused the juice in a jar of pickles? Yes
27%
519 votes
No
63%
1201 votes
Not Applicable
10%
186 votes
2.
2.
Have you ever tried mixing the juice - in any portion - into cooking, i.e. a stir-fry? Yes, and the result was great!
13%
253 votes
Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it...
5%
89 votes
No, I've never done this.
82%
1564 votes
3.
3.
Have you ever tried using the juice to pickle other vegetables/fruits? Yes, and it works!
16%
297 votes
Yes, but it doesn't turn out right.
6%
120 votes
No, I haven't.
78%
1489 votes
4.
4.
Have you ever used pickle juice in a beverage; i.e. a cocktail? Yes, it's a great ingredient to have on hand for cocktail prep!
8%
149 votes
Yes, but I haven't found a mix I like it in.
5%
98 votes
No, I haven't.
87%
1659 votes
5.
5.
Finally, do you have any other suggestions for pickle juice reuse? Yes
13%
251 votes
No
62%
1182 votes
Not Applicable
25%
473 votes
- I just like drinking it
- add to potato salad, tastes great
- Use in tuna salad
- Antacid
- Drink it!!
- drink it
- I put a little in my pickled eggs.
- Add to dry salad mix instead of regular vinegar.
- Marinate chicken in it.
- drink it
- deviled eggs
- put in potatoe salad, chili,
- Pickled eggs
- Use in potato salad, add in w mayo. I think in salad dressings.
- Use in potatoe salad
- Pickle juice is good for upset tummys
- none
- i always put the juice on great northern beans with corn bread
- Ceasar Drink
- Replace the vinegar in salad dressing
- Sometimes I use it in place of vinegar,like mixing it into mayo for potato salad dressing or when making deviled eggs.
- insect stings
- Hard boiled eggs. ham hocks.
- You put it in potato salad or use to pickle eggs.
- Blocking urine analysis tests,lol!!
- Add a little pickle juice to cold pasta and potato salads for added flavor.
- an easier way to do pickled eggs drop the eggs in the pickle juice
- I ran concession stand during baseball season. I would take the pickle juice in an ice tray with a toothpick in it froze, players and spectators would buy this, it helps with the lack of salt the body needed. This was a fantastic treat and a need of the body
- I know a tennis player who drinks the juice to avoid cramps in his legs
- I make cole slaw with the pickle juice, and also pickled eggs.
- Another use....pickle juice is great for a Hangover! So after a wild and crazy night...next morning take a swig of that juice and I promise you'll feel much better.
- I put pickle juice in Egg Salad for the flavor and in potato salad when people don't like the chunks in there. I also reuse the juice with other veggies like celery, cauliflower, carrots etc and I drink the juice outright for leg cramps.
- Throw it out?
- throw it out
- Just a LITTLE bit from bread and butter pickles in tuna fish" Delish"!
- cauliflower and broccoli
- yes i pickle eggs and onions in sweet mixed pickle juice yummy
- N/A
- Hardboiled eggs
- pickle hard boiled eggs
- pickled eggs
- For making sauces or dressings. I worked in a sub shop in high school and we used all that kind of stuff to make the dressing that went on the subs (kind of like an Italian dressing or something).
- put some hot peppers in the juice and then put hard boiled eggs in it and let it sit in the fridge for about 6 months. The eggs absorb the hotness as well as some juice. The hotter the better. My family has been doing this for years.
- I and my kids drink it.
- DRINK IT
- Cole Slaw
- i put a little in my potato salad or tuna salad
- Use it for heartburn and hiccups!
- in spaghetti sauce
- I use in my potato salad instead of vinegar.
- Put it on fried samon
- I like banana peppers and I use the juice along with Parmesan cheese on top of my spaghetti sauce when I plate it.
- Add a little to your homemade potato salad. Just a little because it will make it soupy if you add to much.About a tbsp . It will add extra flavor to it.
- drink to stop cramps.
- put in ice cube trays an freeze, so good in the summer
- Drink as an energy drink
- mix in potato salad when had no pickles
- I saw quite a bit of cookie recipes with this juice. But I never tried it. Also, it is great for hangover (hope you'll never need it for this purpose)
- I drinken it on ice.
- Eggs
- use in potato salad or cold slaw give either one a great taste
- I love drinking it.. Especially when I have a cough or sore throat
- Homemade potato salad
- Drink it straight up!
- no
- Picked eggs are good.
- drink it
- Barbecue sauce
- drink it straight. Great for a hangover
- picked eggs
- boiled eggs
- try making dressing with the juice
- marinade for fish
- Hamburgers or potato salad.
- use as marinade
- pickle eggs
- Put boiled eggs in it. Yummy!
- i use it for ceasars. we love this drink in my house and we keep pickle juice on hand so we can make it from scratch
- add a little to egg salad sandwiches
- I pour it into the toilet and the vinegar removes the lime.
- Drinking it will relieve muscle cramps
- I save it and use it for when my Granddaughter gets cramps in her legs. It works!
- I add it to potato salad, yum. It does work for a quick pickling of other fresh vegetables. Just be sure to refrigerate it.
- I just heat it up and pour over sliced cucumbers and have another jar of pickles.
- Dip your fingers into the jar and flick it onto your sandwiches for flavor
- JUST DRINK IT IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM
- Put dill pickles in sweet pickle juice and they become sweet....
- Some say drinking a little of the dill pickle Juice, helps to curb appetite.
- no
- Mix just a little bit into your macaroni salad or egg salad
- pickled eggs
- More pickles.
- poke some holes in hard boiled eggs and leave them in the jar. somewhat like pickling
- Dill pickle brine (juice) makes a great marinade for pork
- As a salad dressing
- Use in a macaroni salad
- I use a dash or two for tuna salad
- Clean coins
- sweet pickle juice and pickled jalepenos reducess the hot
- It's great in a Bloody Mary
- marinade
- when I was a kid, I'd drink the pickle juice
- use as a marinade for your protein dishes
- Brining
- a chaser for certain shots
- I've used it in Potato salad
- Drink the juice to help stop leg cramps.
- drink it
- pickle juice is good just to drink, small portions. add to deviled eggs when mixing up.
- My Indian Friend says she drinks it when she is sick from the Flu. etc!
- Drink it, the vinagar is good 4 you
- DRINK THE JUICE JUST AS IS
- Add to soups
- Drink juice for restless leg syndrome. Read up on it before using.
- soup, with sour cream, carrots , onions
- drank it
- use in a chicken salad
- Drink it. It helps ease leg cramps
- freeze it and eat it, i drink the juice
- na
- It is great in a spray bottle to deter pigeons from the balcony.
- Drink the pickle juice from the pickle jar after all the pickles in it are used and gone.
- Boil your hotdogs in it or add some to the water.
- Pickled Eggs
- Potato salad, egg salad
- Pickle pops. Just freeze it in little cups with popsicle sticks.
- It's great in a ceasar
- It help joints and muscles.
- in tuna salad about 2 tablespoons
- Drinking it is good for leg cramps and my mother always poured a little bit into her tuna salad and anything else she chopped pickles into.
- If you have high blood sugar, take a shot of the juice and your blood sugar will go down.
- I do this according to taste, bar-b-Q sauce, egg salad, and other cooking meals. This depends on how much you like or dislike the juice pickle taste.
- great in homemade BBQ sauce, also I pickle sliced onions which are good in salads and on sandwiches
- I always use pickle juice in potato salad
- a lil extra flavor in anything you cook. lesson from a chef who does not waste food.
- I sometimes would use the juice to pickle onion's and cucumber's together. They are so good. Also when I use to drink alcohol, if I had a hangover I'd drink pickle juice. It's a great cure for a Hangover and so is tomato juice.
- Salad dressing
- a little bit in potato or macaroni salad
- I take only juice y tomato is good for stomach clean well all the digestive eye not all like him pickle juice
- My mother in law who is German, uses it in her potato salad along with diced pickles. Hers is to die for and everyone loves it. Best I ever had.
- tuna salad
- Use just a touch in deviled eggs.
- Use to pickle got peppers with onions, carrots, thyme, pimentos, red peppers, green peppers,etc.
- as an ingredient in potato salad
- It is good mixed into pasta salad
- drink it it tastes good
- I add it to potato salad for a little umph...
- Drink the juice..I like drinking pickle juice
- DRINK STRAIGHT FOR MUSCLE CRAMPS, GREAT FOR PREVENTING HANGOVER, HEADACHES
- If still fresh I pour a bit of dill pickle juice in my potato salad makes it more moist and flavorful than just using mayonaise
- My mother used to use dill pickle juice to flavor tuna salad. It was good.
- I hear it's great for a hangover.
- I have drank it before
- I have pickled eggs in pickle juice before .
- It is great for an upset tummy.
- na
- I usually put some in my slaw!
- Use in mayo based salads like tuna, potato or chicken salads.
- When you pour it down the kitchen drain, it helps unclog the lines and smells really great for a time.
- IN SMALL AMOUNTS IN POTATO SALAD OR COLE SLAW OR OVER FRESH CUCUMBER SLICES.
- I recently saw a recipe for a dill pickle dip where a bit of pickle juice is added to the dip for extra flavor.
- U can use it in a Caesar Drink!!! It is awesome!! I have also put hard boiled eggs in sweet pickle juice and they were great!!!! Poke a few holes in them and leave them in there for a 3 or 4 days at least to let the flavor get in there1!!!!
- Use in making potato salad and other salads...delicious .
- dump it
- If you are a diabetic and your sugar is high drink a cup of pickle juice and your sugar will go down
- Pickle juice=one cup per gallon of water put on your Fir trees will help them grow ?
- leg cramps
- Great for a sore throat.
- I use it to pickle my husband boiled eggs.
- n.a
- tummy aches
- Coleslaw
- pickled eggs
- hard-boiled eggs to make pickled eggs
- Pickled beets
- add to pasta water, perks up pasta salad.
- rehydrating
- Dilute to taste and drink as is, as it is a healthy drink due to the fermentation process involved in pickling. I also have made brosch/beet soup with it.
- pickled eggs
- Drink it
- base for a marinade
- soak thinly sliced potatoes in the just and make pickle chips :)
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| drink it | 0.31% | 6 |
| Pickled eggs | 0.31% | 6 |
| no | 0.10% | 2 |
| na | 0.10% | 2 |
| I just like drinking it | 0.05% | 1 |
| add to potato salad, tastes great | 0.05% | 1 |
| Use in tuna salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| Antacid | 0.05% | 1 |
| Drink it!! | 0.05% | 1 |
| I put a little in my pickled eggs. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Add to dry salad mix instead of regular vinegar. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Marinate chicken in it. | 0.05% | 1 |
| deviled eggs | 0.05% | 1 |
| put in potatoe salad, chili, | 0.05% | 1 |
| Use in potato salad, add in w mayo. I think in salad dressings. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Use in potatoe salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| Pickle juice is good for upset tummys | 0.05% | 1 |
| none | 0.05% | 1 |
| i always put the juice on great northern beans with corn bread | 0.05% | 1 |
| Ceasar Drink | 0.05% | 1 |
| Replace the vinegar in salad dressing | 0.05% | 1 |
| Sometimes I use it in place of vinegar,like mixing it into mayo for potato salad dressing or when making deviled eggs. | 0.05% | 1 |
| insect stings | 0.05% | 1 |
| Hard boiled eggs. ham hocks. | 0.05% | 1 |
| You put it in potato salad or use to pickle eggs. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Blocking urine analysis tests,lol!! | 0.05% | 1 |
| Add a little pickle juice to cold pasta and potato salads for added flavor. | 0.05% | 1 |
| an easier way to do pickled eggs drop the eggs in the pickle juice | 0.05% | 1 |
| I ran concession stand during baseball season. I would take the pickle juice in an ice tray with a toothpick in it froze, players and spectators would buy this, it helps with the lack of salt the body needed. This was a fantastic treat and a need of the body | 0.05% | 1 |
| I know a tennis player who drinks the juice to avoid cramps in his legs | 0.05% | 1 |
| I make cole slaw with the pickle juice, and also pickled eggs. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Another use....pickle juice is great for a Hangover! So after a wild and crazy night...next morning take a swig of that juice and I promise you'll feel much better. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I put pickle juice in Egg Salad for the flavor and in potato salad when people don't like the chunks in there. I also reuse the juice with other veggies like celery, cauliflower, carrots etc and I drink the juice outright for leg cramps. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Throw it out? | 0.05% | 1 |
| throw it out | 0.05% | 1 |
| Just a LITTLE bit from bread and butter pickles in tuna fish" Delish"! | 0.05% | 1 |
| cauliflower and broccoli | 0.05% | 1 |
| yes i pickle eggs and onions in sweet mixed pickle juice yummy | 0.05% | 1 |
| N/A | 0.05% | 1 |
| Hardboiled eggs | 0.05% | 1 |
| pickle hard boiled eggs | 0.05% | 1 |
| For making sauces or dressings. I worked in a sub shop in high school and we used all that kind of stuff to make the dressing that went on the subs (kind of like an Italian dressing or something). | 0.05% | 1 |
| put some hot peppers in the juice and then put hard boiled eggs in it and let it sit in the fridge for about 6 months. The eggs absorb the hotness as well as some juice. The hotter the better. My family has been doing this for years. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I and my kids drink it. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Cole Slaw | 0.05% | 1 |
| i put a little in my potato salad or tuna salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| Use it for heartburn and hiccups! | 0.05% | 1 |
| in spaghetti sauce | 0.05% | 1 |
| I use in my potato salad instead of vinegar. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Put it on fried samon | 0.05% | 1 |
| I like banana peppers and I use the juice along with Parmesan cheese on top of my spaghetti sauce when I plate it. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Add a little to your homemade potato salad. Just a little because it will make it soupy if you add to much.About a tbsp . It will add extra flavor to it. | 0.05% | 1 |
| drink to stop cramps. | 0.05% | 1 |
| put in ice cube trays an freeze, so good in the summer | 0.05% | 1 |
| Drink as an energy drink | 0.05% | 1 |
| mix in potato salad when had no pickles | 0.05% | 1 |
| I saw quite a bit of cookie recipes with this juice. But I never tried it. Also, it is great for hangover (hope you'll never need it for this purpose) | 0.05% | 1 |
| I drinken it on ice. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Eggs | 0.05% | 1 |
| use in potato salad or cold slaw give either one a great taste | 0.05% | 1 |
| I love drinking it.. Especially when I have a cough or sore throat | 0.05% | 1 |
| Homemade potato salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| Drink it straight up! | 0.05% | 1 |
| Picked eggs are good. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Barbecue sauce | 0.05% | 1 |
| drink it straight. Great for a hangover | 0.05% | 1 |
| picked eggs | 0.05% | 1 |
| boiled eggs | 0.05% | 1 |
| try making dressing with the juice | 0.05% | 1 |
| marinade for fish | 0.05% | 1 |
| Hamburgers or potato salad. | 0.05% | 1 |
| use as marinade | 0.05% | 1 |
| pickle eggs | 0.05% | 1 |
| Put boiled eggs in it. Yummy! | 0.05% | 1 |
| i use it for ceasars. we love this drink in my house and we keep pickle juice on hand so we can make it from scratch | 0.05% | 1 |
| add a little to egg salad sandwiches | 0.05% | 1 |
| I pour it into the toilet and the vinegar removes the lime. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Drinking it will relieve muscle cramps | 0.05% | 1 |
| I save it and use it for when my Granddaughter gets cramps in her legs. It works! | 0.05% | 1 |
| I add it to potato salad, yum. It does work for a quick pickling of other fresh vegetables. Just be sure to refrigerate it. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I just heat it up and pour over sliced cucumbers and have another jar of pickles. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Dip your fingers into the jar and flick it onto your sandwiches for flavor | 0.05% | 1 |
| JUST DRINK IT IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM | 0.05% | 1 |
| Put dill pickles in sweet pickle juice and they become sweet.... | 0.05% | 1 |
| Some say drinking a little of the dill pickle Juice, helps to curb appetite. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Mix just a little bit into your macaroni salad or egg salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| More pickles. | 0.05% | 1 |
| poke some holes in hard boiled eggs and leave them in the jar. somewhat like pickling | 0.05% | 1 |
| Dill pickle brine (juice) makes a great marinade for pork | 0.05% | 1 |
| As a salad dressing | 0.05% | 1 |
| Use in a macaroni salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| I use a dash or two for tuna salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| Clean coins | 0.05% | 1 |
| sweet pickle juice and pickled jalepenos reducess the hot | 0.05% | 1 |
| It's great in a Bloody Mary | 0.05% | 1 |
| marinade | 0.05% | 1 |
| when I was a kid, I'd drink the pickle juice | 0.05% | 1 |
| use as a marinade for your protein dishes | 0.05% | 1 |
| Brining | 0.05% | 1 |
| a chaser for certain shots | 0.05% | 1 |
| I've used it in Potato salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| Drink the juice to help stop leg cramps. | 0.05% | 1 |
| pickle juice is good just to drink, small portions. add to deviled eggs when mixing up. | 0.05% | 1 |
| My Indian Friend says she drinks it when she is sick from the Flu. etc! | 0.05% | 1 |
| Drink it, the vinagar is good 4 you | 0.05% | 1 |
| DRINK THE JUICE JUST AS IS | 0.05% | 1 |
| Add to soups | 0.05% | 1 |
| Drink juice for restless leg syndrome. Read up on it before using. | 0.05% | 1 |
| soup, with sour cream, carrots , onions | 0.05% | 1 |
| drank it | 0.05% | 1 |
| use in a chicken salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| Drink it. It helps ease leg cramps | 0.05% | 1 |
| freeze it and eat it, i drink the juice | 0.05% | 1 |
| It is great in a spray bottle to deter pigeons from the balcony. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Drink the pickle juice from the pickle jar after all the pickles in it are used and gone. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Boil your hotdogs in it or add some to the water. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Potato salad, egg salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| Pickle pops. Just freeze it in little cups with popsicle sticks. | 0.05% | 1 |
| It's great in a ceasar | 0.05% | 1 |
| It help joints and muscles. | 0.05% | 1 |
| in tuna salad about 2 tablespoons | 0.05% | 1 |
| Drinking it is good for leg cramps and my mother always poured a little bit into her tuna salad and anything else she chopped pickles into. | 0.05% | 1 |
| If you have high blood sugar, take a shot of the juice and your blood sugar will go down. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I do this according to taste, bar-b-Q sauce, egg salad, and other cooking meals. This depends on how much you like or dislike the juice pickle taste. | 0.05% | 1 |
| great in homemade BBQ sauce, also I pickle sliced onions which are good in salads and on sandwiches | 0.05% | 1 |
| I always use pickle juice in potato salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| a lil extra flavor in anything you cook. lesson from a chef who does not waste food. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I sometimes would use the juice to pickle onion's and cucumber's together. They are so good. Also when I use to drink alcohol, if I had a hangover I'd drink pickle juice. It's a great cure for a Hangover and so is tomato juice. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Salad dressing | 0.05% | 1 |
| a little bit in potato or macaroni salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| I take only juice y tomato is good for stomach clean well all the digestive eye not all like him pickle juice | 0.05% | 1 |
| My mother in law who is German, uses it in her potato salad along with diced pickles. Hers is to die for and everyone loves it. Best I ever had. | 0.05% | 1 |
| tuna salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| Use just a touch in deviled eggs. | 0.05% | 1 |
| Use to pickle got peppers with onions, carrots, thyme, pimentos, red peppers, green peppers,etc. | 0.05% | 1 |
| as an ingredient in potato salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| It is good mixed into pasta salad | 0.05% | 1 |
| drink it it tastes good | 0.05% | 1 |
| I add it to potato salad for a little umph... | 0.05% | 1 |
| Drink the juice..I like drinking pickle juice | 0.05% | 1 |
| DRINK STRAIGHT FOR MUSCLE CRAMPS, GREAT FOR PREVENTING HANGOVER, HEADACHES | 0.05% | 1 |
| If still fresh I pour a bit of dill pickle juice in my potato salad makes it more moist and flavorful than just using mayonaise | 0.05% | 1 |
| My mother used to use dill pickle juice to flavor tuna salad. It was good. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I hear it's great for a hangover. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I have drank it before | 0.05% | 1 |
| I have pickled eggs in pickle juice before . | 0.05% | 1 |
| It is great for an upset tummy. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I usually put some in my slaw! | 0.05% | 1 |
| Use in mayo based salads like tuna, potato or chicken salads. | 0.05% | 1 |
| When you pour it down the kitchen drain, it helps unclog the lines and smells really great for a time. | 0.05% | 1 |
| IN SMALL AMOUNTS IN POTATO SALAD OR COLE SLAW OR OVER FRESH CUCUMBER SLICES. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I recently saw a recipe for a dill pickle dip where a bit of pickle juice is added to the dip for extra flavor. | 0.05% | 1 |
| U can use it in a Caesar Drink!!! It is awesome!! I have also put hard boiled eggs in sweet pickle juice and they were great!!!! Poke a few holes in them and leave them in there for a 3 or 4 days at least to let the flavor get in there1!!!! | 0.05% | 1 |
| Use in making potato salad and other salads...delicious . | 0.05% | 1 |
| dump it | 0.05% | 1 |
| If you are a diabetic and your sugar is high drink a cup of pickle juice and your sugar will go down | 0.05% | 1 |
| Pickle juice=one cup per gallon of water put on your Fir trees will help them grow ? | 0.05% | 1 |
| leg cramps | 0.05% | 1 |
| Great for a sore throat. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I use it to pickle my husband boiled eggs. | 0.05% | 1 |
| n.a | 0.05% | 1 |
| tummy aches | 0.05% | 1 |
| Coleslaw | 0.05% | 1 |
| hard-boiled eggs to make pickled eggs | 0.05% | 1 |
| Pickled beets | 0.05% | 1 |
| add to pasta water, perks up pasta salad. | 0.05% | 1 |
| rehydrating | 0.05% | 1 |
| Dilute to taste and drink as is, as it is a healthy drink due to the fermentation process involved in pickling. I also have made brosch/beet soup with it. | 0.05% | 1 |
| base for a marinade | 0.05% | 1 |
| soak thinly sliced potatoes in the just and make pickle chips :) | 0.05% | 1 |
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