Foods soaked in vinegar are pickled, and soaked in salt are salt-cured. Both are means of preserving food.
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It is called "pickling"
to turn it into a rubbery substance and to preserve it
it is acidic so it would significantly retard bacteria growth. Using vinegar to preserve food is called pickling. It usually involves removing water from the food by soaking it in a brine (salt water) solution and then allowing the food to soak the vinegar back into it. Many foods can be pickled such as fish (herring) and cucumbers.
hat is the process does soaking and storing food in brine
Anything that can absorb the vinegar or the brine used to pickle. I.e a cucumber in brine, eggs in vinegar.
pickling
Vinegar
cucumbers and brine vinegar soak the cucumbers in the vinegar for about 48 hours
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chicken bones
Turn into rubber
Just like salt, to preserve meat, vinegar does the same to cucumbers.
they are soaked in a brine, almost like a pickle brine, just with different spices, but one of the main ingredients in any brine is vinegar