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25 Ways To Use Leftover Pickle Juice That You’ve Never Thought Of Before

9. Use in Salad Dressings

Vinegar can be replaced with pickle juice in just about any recipe for a more complex sour kick. One of our favorite ways to use it is in salad dressings—and ranch dressing, in particular. Ranch dressing on pizza, more specifically.

10. Get Rid of Weeds

Rid your garden of weeds by pouring your leftover juice over them instead of down the disposal. The mixture of salt and vinegar will do the trick.

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11. Use for Your Bloody Mary

Many a hungover individual has sipped on a Bloody Mary to get the old’ hair of the dog and soothe themselves from their late Saturday night debauchery. Add a tablespoon of trusty pickle juice to your usual Bloody Mary mix for an epic taste… or replace the liquor with pickle juice completely for a tangy virgin cocktail.

12. Make Pickle Butter

Attention salmon-loving souls: you need to stop what you are doing, throw some salmon on the grill, and serve it with pickle butter. It’s as simple and as life-changing as that. With a little bit of tang and the creamy mix of butter, the flavors of a flaky salmon will shine.

13. Use in Deviled Eggs

Make your next batch of deviled eggs even more divine by adding pickle juice to the mayo and mustard mix. (We also suggest adding a splash of hot sauce, a sprinkle of paprika, and maybe some bacon bits to get your guests really gushing over your egg-cellent preparations.)

14. Add to Tartar Sauce

You might put vinegar in your tartar sauce already to compliment those diced pickles or relish, but why not replace that vinegar and compliment those pickles further with pickle juice, instead?

15. Marinate Cheese

Add some zing to your milder cheeses by marinating it in pickle juice. A soft white cheese and your juice, plus olive oil, garlic, fresh herbs, and black pepper should do the (tasty) trick.

16. Melt Ice

A little-known fact is that the calcium chloride in pickle brine can melt ice. Ice trucks in New Jersey and Pennsylvania use it to de-ice city streets in the winter. The next time your driveway and sidewalk gets slippery, reach for a jar.

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