Wife started pickles today and we discovered a grasshopper in the jar. What should we do? Let it ride or fish it out and reseal?
Wife started pickles today and we discovered a grasshopper in the jar. What should we do? Let it ride or fish it out and reseal?
by cadebasil
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MassiveDirection7231
I’d say keep it as a novelty, that’s spectacular and I’d want to save it. While grasshoppers aren’t usually toxic they can carry parasites and generally have bitter bits to them. I wouldn’t eat it personally but I’d definitely save it and display it somewhere
Professional-Oil1537
I would guess it would be okay with one small one but I don’t know for sure. If it was me I would just throw it in the fridge and be the first jar I eat.
StandByTheJAMs
Are you fermenting them or water-bath canning them? If canning, you can’t guarantee the heat penetrated the grasshopper enough to kill any botulism spores, so you should reprocess if you just did that one, or put it in the fridge and eat it within time frame for non-canned pickles (a few weeks in the fridge).
If you’re fermenting, just let it ride and see how it turns out!
JDPdawg
Let it ride seems like the awesomest answer but probably not the correct one! Is it like the tequila “worm” now?????
ChampagneStain
Awesome. I’m not vouching for the safety, but personally I would totally eat that after a solid ferment and/or pickle. But definitely mark the jar so you don’t accidentally gift it to someone else unknowingly.
flylink63
Mmmm, protein!
harmons
Open it, get rid of the grasshopper or eat the grasshopper and eat the pickles
This-Rutabaga6382
Pickle cricket
Tigger7894
Either keep it as something unusual or feed it to the chickens. Yeah I know we eat bugs all the time, but I’d rather not know, and I’d have a hard time eating it if I fished it out, and even harder if I didn’t know what jar it was after that I’d have issues with all the jars.
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I’d say keep it as a novelty, that’s spectacular and I’d want to save it. While grasshoppers aren’t usually toxic they can carry parasites and generally have bitter bits to them. I wouldn’t eat it personally but I’d definitely save it and display it somewhere
I would guess it would be okay with one small one but I don’t know for sure. If it was me I would just throw it in the fridge and be the first jar I eat.
Are you fermenting them or water-bath canning them? If canning, you can’t guarantee the heat penetrated the grasshopper enough to kill any botulism spores, so you should reprocess if you just did that one, or put it in the fridge and eat it within time frame for non-canned pickles (a few weeks in the fridge).
If you’re fermenting, just let it ride and see how it turns out!
Let it ride seems like the awesomest answer but probably not the correct one! Is it like the tequila “worm” now?????
Awesome. I’m not vouching for the safety, but personally I would totally eat that after a solid ferment and/or pickle. But definitely mark the jar so you don’t accidentally gift it to someone else unknowingly.
Mmmm, protein!
Open it, get rid of the grasshopper or eat the grasshopper and eat the pickles
Pickle cricket
Either keep it as something unusual or feed it to the chickens. Yeah I know we eat bugs all the time, but I’d rather not know, and I’d have a hard time eating it if I fished it out, and even harder if I didn’t know what jar it was after that I’d have issues with all the jars.
It’s a bug man, get rid of that joker.