Washing Cucumbers

[lordkenmore]

If the woman in this video is making real pickles (that is, sealed in jar via a boiling water bath), I'd have to assume that any washing machine germs would get killed. Still, I don't think I could see myself doing this...germs killed or not, I find it a little creepy.

 

[mtn1584]

IT IS A "C L O T H E S - W A S H E R," a machine to wash your laundry/dirty clothes in. I AM SORRY I DON'T GET IT. My grand parents were form Italy, had vegetable gardens, etc. The only thing that went in to the machine was clothes.
MIKE

 

[strongenough78]

Ok I can see doing that, if you bought a brand new machine, like bottom of the line, and used it ONLY for that. The thought of putting food where dirty underwear, socks, and other clothes have been kind of grosses me out. I MIGHT feel better knowing that the machine was bleached and rinsed thoroughly first, but yeah....I doubt it.

 

[iheartmaytag]

At my Nephew's graduation party, my sister used her washer as a big ice chest.

She filled the big Mongtomery-Norge up with ice and pop. When the party was over and the ice melted she just did a quick spin and was ready for the table cloths.

Didn't appear to be much germ transfer, most everyone at the party is still alive.

 

[thomasortega]

I'm not sure If I had or hadn't posted it before...
just in case, here it goes...

Would you drink this "caipirinha" made in a washing machine?

 

[thomasortega]

... or maybe this one, made in a concrete mixer...

(at least this version was made by the concrete mixer manufacturer using a never used concrete mixer.

 

[iheartmaytag]

When My sister used her washer as an Ice Chest

The pop was in cans. No contact with the outside world.

 

[hunter]

it's not the germs....it's the SOAP!

How many of us have some caked on soap SOMEWHERE in the washer? I daresay almost everyone...

I don't worry about the germs so much (though honestly they are an issue I think) but soap in your pickles?

No thanks.

I've done whole bushels of pickles and it really isn't that big of a deal to scrub them - just soak them for a bit FIRST and the dirt loosens.

Hunter (who would love the 'problem' of butchering an elk this year)

 

[tolivac]

GROSS!!Now if you set the washer to fast agitate speed-will we get pickel relish?

 

[runematic]

Unless this machine was purchased to just do this, I wouldn't want any of those cukes. Here is a shot of what 95% of the direct drive machines we take apart to clean look like. I don't care how clean you are or think you are, buildups of "stuff" happens. A simple rinse will not get rid of this "goodness."