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Here's a few pics of mine.

I picked it up on Amazon last summer when I had a surplus of cucumbers.

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I went with the most basic of recipes. All it took was a saltwater brine, some dill, some garlic, some sliced up cukes and five days of waiting.

Once they were done, I just put them in a jar and they went into the fridge. They should last about a year in there. It's ok to pack them in the brine, once the brine is refrigerated the fermentation stops.

This one is 5L. I think I got about 4 Qt size canning jars of pickles and tomatoes out of it and I could have filled it up just a little more than I did.

Yeah, I just made some sauerkraut out of the cabbage I grew. I'm gonna do another batch of pickles this weekend or early next week.

side note: so they say after you ferment the pickles and put them in jars, they'll stay good for about a year if they're put in the fridge.

Well they may be safe to eat, but I recently opened a jar from last year's batch and they were all soft and mushy...so dont wait that long if you want to eat them!