What allows a pickle to conduct electricity?

Answer 1

Pickles have gotten credit for health and beauty and winning football games.

In the Pacific Islands, natives pickle their foods in holes in the ground lined with banana leaves, and use them as food reserves in case of storms. The pickles are so valuable that they've become part of the courting process, helping a man prove he'll be able to provide for a woman. In Fiji, guys can't get a girl without first showing her parents his pickle pits.

Cleopatra claimed pickles made her beautiful. (We guess it had more to do with her genes.)

The majority of pickle factories in America ferment their pickles in outdoor vats without lids (leaving them subject to insects and bird droppings). But there's a reason. According to food scientists, the sun's direct rays prevent yeast and mold from growing in the brine.

In the Delta region of Mississippi, Kool-Aid pickles have become ridiculously popular with kids. The recipe's simple: take some dill pickles, cut them in half, and then soak them in super strong Kool-Aid for more than a week. According to the New York Times, the sweet vinegar snacks are known to sell out at fairs and delicatessens, and generally go for $.50 to a $1.

Not everyone loves a sweet pickle. In America, dill pickles are twice as popular as the sweet variety.

The Department of Agriculture estimates that the average American eats 8.5 lbs of pickles a year.

When the Philadelphia Eagles thrashed the Dallas Cowboys in sweltering heat in September 2000, many of the players attributed their win to one thing: guzzling down immense quantities of ice-cold pickle juice.

If it weren't for pickles, Christopher Columbus might never have "discovered" America. In his famous 1492 voyage, Columbus rationed pickles to his sailors to keep them from getting scurvy. He even grew cucumbers during a pit stop in Haiti to restock for the rest of the voyage.

Speaking of people who get credit for discovering America, when he wasn't drawing maps and trying to steal Columbus' thunder, Amerigo Vespucci was a well-known pickle-merchant.

Napoleon was also a big fan of pickle power. In fact, he put up the equivalent of $250,000 as a prize to whoever could figure out the best way to pickle and preserve foods for his troops.

During the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, H. J. Heinz used pick-shaped pins to lure customers to his out of the way booth. By the end of the fair, he'd given out lots of free food, and over 1,000,000 pickle pins.

Berrien Springs, Michigan, has dubbed itself the Christmas Pickle Capital of the World. In early December, they host a parade, led by the Grand Dillmeister, who tosses out fresh pickles to parade watchers.

Electricity travels in closed loops, or circuits. It must have a complete path before the electrons can move. If a circuit is open, the electrons cannot flow.

Electricity travels at the speed of light - more than 186,000 miles per second!

A spark of static electricity can measure up to three thousand (3,000) volts.

A bolt of lightning can measure up to three million (3,000,000) volts - and it lasts less than one second!

Electricity always tries to find the easiest path to the ground.

Electricity can be made from wind, water, the sun and even animal manure.

Burning coal is the most common way electricity is made in the United States.

One power plant can produce enough electricity for 180,000 homes.

The first power plant - owned by Thomas Edison - opened in New York City in 1882.

Thomas Edison didn't invent the first light bulb - but he did invent one that stayed lit for more than a few seconds.

Thomas Edison invented more than 2,000 new products, including almost everything needed for us to use electricity in our homes: switches, fuses, sockets and meters.

Benjamin Franklin didn't discover electricity - but he did prove that lightning is a form of electrical energy.

Old-time picklers couldn't accurately measure the salt needed for making pickle brines, since the density of commercially bought salt varied from year to year. To get around this potential problem-too little or too much salt can cause pickles to spoil-many recipes recommended using "enough salt to float an egg" in the brine. While this method yielded fermented pickles that could keep all winter, they were too salty to be eaten. Picklers had to soak the pickles in water for days to make them edible.

During WWII, the U.S. Government tagged 40 percent of all pickle production for the ration kits of the armed forces.

Berrien Springs, Michigan, is known as the Christmas Pickle Capital of the World.

Pickles: Fruit or Vegetable? Actually, they are both! According to the U.S. Supreme Court, because they have seeds, pickles are technically a "fruit of the vine". However, because they are made from cucumbers, they are generally known as a vegetable.

26 billion pickles are packed each year in the U.S. That's about nine pounds of pickles per person.

According to pickle industry research, the average American prefers 7 'warts' per square inch, Europeans prefer pickles with no 'warts.' A pickles crunch should be audible from 10 paces away.

More than half the cucumbers grown in the U.S. are made into pickles.

Pickling has been used to preserve food for almost 5,000 years.

Supposedly originating in the Mississippi Delta, the popularity of Kool-Aid Pickles is spreading. You can find them in red, yellow, orange.... all the colors of Kool-Aid, and kids love them. Just make double strength Kool-Aid, add sugar and pickles (cut lengthwise) and let it sit for a week in the fridge.

Answer 2

Yes it will and it will light up and if there is eough electicity it may catch fire.

Answer 3

It is basically filled with salt water, which is a good conductor.