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♫ Gonna smoke me fatty brisket
♫ I got my barbecue shoes on
♫ Gonna smoke me a fatty brisket
♫ I got my barbecue shoes on
- [Man] Welcome to bbqpitboys.com.
Today we're pickling up some peppers at the pit
and it's real easy to do.
And we're gonna do some veggies too,
so if that bothers you just look the other way.
This is gonna be good.
It's summer
and we're picking fresh veggies off the vine, at the pit.
So we're gonna make a real simple pickle
and it's ready to eat in just a couple days.
You can set them up different ways.
We've got cucumbers and carrots, celery.
We've got garlic.
We've got cauliflower.
We've got green hot peppers.
We've got jalapenos.
We've got habaneros.
We've got cherry peppers.
Whatever you can source fresh out of you garden.
And fresh is best.
You want them snap fresh, if you know what I mean.
What we're going here is we're chopping them up
in a reasonable size.
That's the pitmaster privilege
in how big you want them or how small,
but we're gonna make several different types.
We're gonna be doing jalapeno and habanero pickling.
Here we've got some green peppers
and we've got carrots.
We'll get cauliflower in there, more green pepper.
You set them up the way you want.
Whatever you throw in there, from the garden,
is gonna be good.
And like I said, they're ready to eat
in only a couple of days.
There's no fancy ass brining and melting sugars
This is fresh.
It'll be awesome with those cold beers
and those steaks or whatever you got cooking in the pit.
So this is how it's done.
We've got one quart pickling jars
and we're gonna stuff them with our cut up veggies,
primarily peppers, as you can see here,
and we're gonna stuff them tight.
We don't want too much room in there.
We just force it down, get it in there.
Like I said, this is gonna be good.
It's optional, but you can throw a scotch bonnet in there
to pick the heat up a little bit or a habanero.
I'm telling you, if you've never
had pit pepper pickles before,
you definitely gotta check it out.
All right, the veggies have been stuffed
and now we're gonna add the pickling, or seasoning.
And all it is is two tablespoons of kosher salt
with one tablespoon of fennel in each.
Two to one in each jar.
Simple enough.
Oh yeah.
Again, like I said, put what peppers you want in there.
In fact there's still more room to get them in.
Like I said, tightly pack them.
Ah yes, this is the time of the year
we all look forward to, garden fresh picking.
Just kicking back,
doing up some pickles,
maybe some steaks later.
It's gonna be good.
Now,
to each jar we're gonna add about one cup of water.
I guess we could fast forward this a bit,
but we kinda like doing this,
so just kick back and watch.
Now we're gonna top off the jars with vinegar.
It could be about a half a cup or so.
Oh man.
Are you getting hungry or what.
Somebody get that steak going.
We're gonna be eating good tonight, Martha.
Now we've got some red apple cider vinegar.
You can use what vinegar you like,
but apple cider vinegar is excellent in this part.
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Basically just top it off, right to the top.
Just like that.
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I told you this is gonna be easy to do.
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Seal them up tight
and you can almost within a few hours
start munching on them straight cucumbers there,
but you wanna let them go at least a couple days.
The longer you go the more flavor,
except this a cold pickling, so it should last,
in the refrigerator, a couple of weeks
before maybe the veggies start getting to soft.
You know what I mean?
You want them crunchy, a snap on every bite.
Nice and fresh from the garden.
Mix it up a little bit.
Throw it in the fridge for a couple days.
♫ I gonna grab me some thighs at the chicken coop
♫ I got my barbecue shoes on
In the mean time
we just happen to have a jar all ready.
And we do apologize for eating in front of you like this,
but this is called pitmaster privilege,
or pit pepper pitmaster privilege.
Watch some food cop chime in now,
"You can't put your fingers in that pickling jar."
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Eat this.
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So the the next time you're looking for a recipe
for you pit, check out bbqpitboys.com.
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