Why are pickles so small?

[KingOrfeo]

I've never seen one made with a cucumber as large as the ones you can buy fresh in the produce section. Why is that? And where do the picklers get those half-sized cucumbers?

 

[chillywilly2]

You can only fit one big one in a jar and the lid won't even go on.

I think they get them from mexico...the little ones...so with Trump and the wall you can kiss them g'bye

 

[KingOrfeo]

You can only fit one big one in a jar and the lid won't even go on.

I think the size of the jars picklers use is determined by the size of the cucumbers they use, not the other way around.

 

[chillywilly2]

No, taller jars won't fit on the grocery store shelves...they aren't gonna adjust all them shelves just cause you want a bigger pickle...pervert

 

[KingOrfeo]

No, taller jars won't fit on the grocery store shelves...they aren't gonna adjust all them shelves just cause you want a bigger pickle...pervert

Lots of big things are sold on supermarket shelves; a cereal box is taller than a full-sized cucumber stood on end; adjusting the shelves is what they do.

 

[chillywilly2]

Well then ya got me...I have no idea why they don't pickle the big cucumbers

 

[rocket_surgery]

Different kind of cucumber usually. A gherkin. And they do pickle the big ones just not usually the really big ones because those aren't as good.

 

[Wings]

There's actually a lot of reasons why you don't see the large cucumbers as pickles. First of all smaller pickling cucumbers are easier to grow and take up less room. And it's all about how quickly they can turn over their product. Also even though you can pickle almost anything pickling a younger cucumber is quicker than thus less production time thus less costly.

Pickling cucumbers and salad cucumbers are two completely different types of cucumbers

Pickling cucumbers are actually sweeter than salad cucumbers and the skin and seeds are different.

The size of the jar is a valid point. Grocery buyers are not about to give up shelf space to those large jars of pickles that you can find at maybe food trucks or bars that is too much shelf space to give up for such a small return on their investment

I would also be a little concerned at what sort of process they are using to pickle those large cucumbers because the skin is different and their solution would have to be different as well.

By the way older cucumbers like older men are usually mushy and limp by the time they're old

 

[Miles]

A cucumber would make a soggy pickle as it is already ripe, the small ones retain crunch after the boiling process.

 

[jaF0]

The only place I've ever seen the whoppers is at a Deli.

I prefer the sweet baby gherkins.

 

[KingOrfeo]

There's actually a lot of reasons why you don't see the large cucumbers as pickles. First of all smaller pickling cucumbers are easier to grow and take up less room. And it's all about how quickly they can turn over their product. Also even though you can pickle almost anything pickling a younger cucumber is quicker than thus less production time thus less costly.

Pickling cucumbers and salad cucumbers are two completely different types of cucumbers

Pickling cucumbers are actually sweeter than salad cucumbers and the skin and seeds are different.

But, while pickling cucumbers are different, they are not smaller than salad cucumbers, just picked earlier?

 

[Wings]

But, while pickling cucumbers are different, they are not smaller than salad cucumbers, just picked earlier?

Are you asking or telling?

 

[james_1957]

I've never seen one made with a cucumber as large as the ones you can buy fresh in the produce section. Why is that? And where do the picklers get those half-sized cucumbers?

Selling pickles, KO?

k.o. pickles
https://www.rickspicks.com/products/k-o-pickles?variant=4958406788

 

[doowdniw]

I prefer bread and butter pickles.

 

[Miles]

I prefer bread and butter pickles.

Dills man. Dills.

 

[adrina]

I would have thought that the smaller pickles absorb the brine more thoroughly more quickly.

 

[Tryharder62]

Size doesn't matter! (Sorry had to do it)

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Why are pickles so small?

Because no one will pay for a jar with only two pickles in it, no matter how big the damn pickles are.

Plus the store shelves are limited in the size of the jar. They used to sell the big pickles at the cash register, but the government decided that it was unsanitary to do that, so it was outlawed. Hence, small pickles in small jars.

 

[deathbypickle]

Not very nice to pick on the vertically challenged pickles of the world.....

 

[ishtat]

Any Eastenders fancy a wally 'n chips?

 

[KingOrfeo]

Are you asking or telling?

I'm asking.

 

[chillywilly2]

The only place I've ever seen the whoppers is at a Deli.

I prefer the sweet baby gherkins.

Cradle robber

 

[Rightguide]

I've never seen one made with a cucumber as large as the ones you can buy fresh in the produce section. Why is that? And where do the picklers get those half-sized cucumbers?

That's because people prefer them to be smaller. They want to but more than one or two and be able to carry the jar home.