{"id":231,"date":"2016-02-15T14:49:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/?p=231"},"modified":"2016-02-15T14:50:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:50:48","slug":"firecracker-carrot-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/2016\/02\/firecracker-carrot-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Firecracker carrot comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m making a couple quick batches of pickled baby carrots today, to see what variations on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/alton-brown\/firecrackers-recipe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alton Brown&#8217;s recipe<\/a> do. For the first batch I&#8217;m using the recipe straight from Alton Brown. For the second batch I&#8217;m adding 1\/2 teaspoon of garlic powder, doubling the crushed chili peppers, adding 1\/2 teaspoon of salt, and using white vinegar instead of cider vinegar. Oh, and I added a dash of cayenne, because why not.<\/p>\n<p>The hard part will be letting them sit for a week before trying them. The last batch I made, I ate within the next 48 hours. It had no discernible heat, though, and in theory letting Alton&#8217;s recipe sit for a week could have brought that out. So these two batches I will do my best to leave alone at least until the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Note to self: the jar with the black tape on it is the experimental batch. Also, Alton&#8217;s recipe calls for 1\/2 pound of carrots, which is nuts. That amount of liquid is more than enough for a whole pound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m making a couple quick batches of pickled baby carrots today, to see what variations on Alton Brown&#8217;s recipe do. For the first batch I&#8217;m using the recipe straight from Alton Brown. For the second batch I&#8217;m adding 1\/2 teaspoon of garlic powder, doubling the crushed chili peppers, adding 1\/2 teaspoon of salt, and using &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/2016\/02\/firecracker-carrot-comparison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firecracker carrot comparison<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wUSd-3J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.houseofcranks.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}