Hello. I am not looking to can or jar them in any fashion. I am curious, if I were to peel and chop a bunch of beats, and submerge them in a 5 gallon bucket of vinegar, would they be preserved when it comes time to cook with them a few days later? No cooking would be done in this process and no jarring, just submering in vinegar.
Brad
Beets will never be safe to eat. I say just stay away and never talk about beets again.
♥Sweetness♥
No!! The only thing those beets are going to be is nasty. Just go online and find a simple recipe for what you need to do, be it pickle them, roast them, what ever. They are one of the easiest veggies to cook with and you can fine very simple recipes for them.
denise
They should be ok done this way, you may have to rinse them if you dont want the vinegary taste in your cooked beets.
heart o' gold
Basically you'd be pickling them and not in a good way.
Beets keep well in a fridge - for a REALLY long time.
I think this would not only be a waste of effort you'd ruin a whole lotta beets.
If I had a whole lotta beets I MIGHT pickle some, but I'd follow a recipe and jar them up so they'd be ready for future consumption with no further effort.
But I'm not really much of a fan of pickled vegetables and I would be much more likely to ROAST the beets, then refrigerate them for a week or freeze them for much longer.
I have two basic ways that I roast beets that I do a lot:
Peeled, cut into chunks, tossed with olive oil, garlic and herbs and roasted on a sheet pan (like roasted potatoes). Roasted this way the sugars ooze out and caramelize and the beets become almost candy-like. The first time I ever did this I was roasting a big sheet of mixed root vegetables and tossed some beets in for color. My housemate and I sat there and devoured every beet on that platter as soon as they hit the table. We started eating beets cooked like that ever night - our pee turned pink for weeks.
The other way is to scrub down the entire peel of the beet and let it dry, then wrap it in parchment paper (think like a hard candy with twisted ends) then bake at 350 til it's tender when you poke it with your finger. Let them cool enough to handle them and when unwrapped the skin peels right off and you have lovely cooked beet for mashed beets, to make soup or pasta or just pile in a bowl with butter (or buttermilk) and seasonings (sweet OR savory) of your choice and eat with a spoon. And these ones will make your pee pink too...
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i would hope so, just dont eat it if youre not sure