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Fresh, homemade pickles without the hassle! Simply pour Mrs. Wages® 1 Step Pickle® over your favorite chopped veggies. With a variety of mouth-watering flavors, your freshly-made pickles can be enjoyed as a side dish, sandwich topper or snack. We do the work. You take the credit.®

Kosher Dill: a traditional flavor made with our special blend of pickling spice.

Ingredients: Water, White Distilled Vinegar, Salt, Maltodextrin, Dehydrated Garlic, Spice (Includes Mustard Seed), Spice Extractive (Includes Turmeric Extract, Mustard Oil), Citric Acid.

You can’t go wrong with this delightful classic tomato based salsa mix. The delicate balance of seasonings and vegetables compliments homegrown fresh tomatoes. A can of petite diced tomatoes, that you pick-up for last minute preparations, is also a quick alternative for this mix.

Ingredients: Dehydrated Vegetables (Onion, Green Bell Pepper, Jalapeño Pepper, Chili Pepper, Garlic), Salt, Spice, Maltodextrin.

This high purity salt produces a sparkling clear brine and is specifically designed for food canning. It has no iodine or other additives.

What Is Pickling Salt?

Pickling salt is fine-ground 100% pure sodium chloride. That’s it! It really is just pure salt for canning and pickling at home.

Pickling salt is its most common name, but it can also be called canning salt or preserving salt. It is an important ingredient, and there are a few reasons that it’s important to use pickling salt instead of ordinary table salt.

What Makes Pickling Salt Different from Table Salt?

The biggest differences between pickling salt and table salt are the texture and the added ingredients in table salt.

Pickling salt is much more finely ground than typical table salt, and much finer than larger salt varieties like Himalayan pink salt or chef’s flake salt.

Why does the texture of the salt matter? Finely ground salt has more surface area relative to the volume, which makes it easier to fully dissolve the salt into your brine.

But there is another problem with using other salts instead of pickling salt.

That is, there are other ingredients in common table salt, and impurities in varieties like pink Himalayan salt that aren’t present in pickling salt.

Those impurities can change the composition of your pickle, changing your results. In addition, additives designed to keep the salt from clumping, and additives like iodine can also change how well a pickling recipe does when you use them.

What Happens When You Use a Different Salt in Pickling?

One of the core benefits of pickling salt is that the salt is highly consistent and provides consistent results when you use it. When you use a different salt, you lose that.

The most common reaction to using a different salt in pickling is that it can give you a cloudy brine. For the most part that’s not a bad problem to have, but it can make it harder to monitor the pickle and make sure you aren’t getting any accidental fermentation or bacterial contamination.

Another problem is that using a different salt may introduce off-flavors, especially for recipes that call for a higher concentration of salt, or that are likely to sit and be preserved for a long time.

Can You Substitute Pickling Salt?

Yes, but we don’t recommend it. Pickling salt is always going to be the best option when you’re making a pickle, and often it’s also the best option for other canning recipes as well.

That said, there’s nothing unsafe about using table salt. It just might change the way the pickle recipe works.

Even if it doesn’t make a significant difference in the beginning, the longer your pickle stays in the brine, or the longer your canned goods stay sealed before you use them, the more those differences are likely to show up.

The other challenge is getting the right amount of salt into your pickle. Pickling salts are typically measured by weight rather than volume, which can help make sure the right amount of salt makes it into the recipe.

However, other salts might not have the same weight per volume, so you may have to adjust the amount you add to make sure you’re getting enough sodium chloride into the brine, along with the other additives in the salt.

Getting the right proportion of salt into your brine is particularly important if you are making a fermented pickle.

Is Pickling Salt Only Good for Pickling?

No, but we don’t necessarily recommend using it for regular cooking.

There are a couple of reasons why pickling salt is mostly only used for pickling.

The first is that most table salt is iodized salt. Iodine is an important nutrient for thyroid health, and it’s easy not to get enough in your diet.1 So, while you can use pickling salt in a pinch, you don’t want to completely replace table salt with pickling salt in your diet because you’d risk iodine deficiency.

Taste is another big reason you might not want to switch. One reason so many chefs use larger flaked salt is because those larger flakes, especially added so that they don’t dissolve completely into your food, taste better.

Switching to pickling salt will let the salt dissolve more easily into your food, but it can also make it harder to taste how much salt is there and make you want to add more than you really need.

Looking for More Canning Tips and Recipes?

If you’re looking for more tips and tricks about canning and pickling, visit Mrs. Wages! Or go directly to our blog to see our latest advice!

INGREDIENTS: SALT.

Use this mix, containing just the right spices with fresh or canned tomatoes for a zesty salsa you’re sure to make again and again. Makes 5 pints and is ready to eat 30 minutes after refrigeration or 12-24 hours after jars have been sitting undisturbed at room temperature.

Ingredients: Dehydrated Vegetables (Onion, Green Bell Pepper, Jalapeño Pepper, Chili Pepper, Garlic), Salt, Spices.

Mrs. Wages® Fruit Pectin Home Jell® comes with an all-inclusive instruction page that explains how to make all types of jams and jellies with anything you want. You will have the perfect consistency every time with our pectin!

Ingredients: Dextrose, Fruit Pectin, Fumaric Acid

Manufactured to 5% acidity for best results in canning and pickling. Create the best taste by having the right balance of tang and zip in every bite. Don’t worry if you don’t use the whole jug, simply twist the cap back on tight and store it away for later!

Fresh, homemade pickles without the hassle! Simply pour Mrs. Wages® 1 Step Pickle® over your favorite chopped veggies. With a variety of mouth-watering flavors, your freshly-made pickles can be enjoyed as a side dish, sandwich topper or snack. We do the work. You take the credit.®

Bread & Butter: a tangy, sweet pickle flavor blended with herbs and spices.

Ingredients: White Distilled Vinegar, Sugar, Water, Salt, Spice (Includes Mustard Seed, Celery Seed), Dehydrated Onion, Maltodextrin, Spice Extractives (Includes Turmeric Extract, Mustard Oil), Citric Acid.

Create homemade guacamole without the homemade hassle with Mrs. Wages® Guacamole Seasoning Mix. This perfect blend of vegetables and spices makes a great mild guacamole when combined with mashed avocados. All you need are 2 ripe avocados and a tablespoon of water or lime juice. Serve guacamole with tortilla chips. Guacamole also makes a great topping to burgers, sandwiches, and quesadillas. Make the guacamole your own by mixing in any combination of the following: sour cream, pineapple chunks, roasted corn, chili peppers, green onions, etc. The possibilities are endless!

Ingredients: Dehydrated Vegetables (Onion, Garlic, Tomato, Jalapeño Pepper), Maltodextrin, Salt, Lime Juice Powder (Contains Maltodextrin, Lime Juice Solids, Lime Oil), Yeast Extract, Spice, Natural Flavor.

Enjoy the robust flavor of a dill pickle with garlic. This mix contains herbs and spices, just add vinegar and water through the canning process. Each pack makes 7 quarts of crisp, crunchy pickles.

Before beginning any canning project, be sure to familiarize yourself with the process, the equipment you need and the ingredients. A boiling water bath method is used for the quick process recipes. The pickles are ready to eat 24 hours after preparation.

INGREDIENTS: Salt, Maltodextrin, Dehydrated Garlic, Spice Extractives (Includes Turmeric Extract & Mustard Oil), Citric Acid.

Ingredients: Citric Acid, less than 2% Silicone Dioxide (Anticaking).

Enjoy fresh fruits as the day they were picked with Mrs. Wages® Fresh Fruit Preserver! Prevent your fresh fruits from going brown with our convenient 6 ounce shaker bottle. Our easy shaker releases just the right amount of preserver as needed so that you can continue to enjoy your favorite fruits even days after. Each batch makes light, medium or heavy syrup intended for freezing and canning of fresh fruits such as apples, pears, peaches, bananas, avocadoes, and more.

Ingredients: Sugar, Erythorbic Acid (to promote color retention), Ascorbic Acid (to promote color retention), Less Than 2% Silicon Dioxide (anticaking).

Fresh, homemade pickles without the hassle! Simply pour Mrs. Wages® 1 Step Pickle® over your favorite chopped veggies. With a variety of mouth-watering flavors, your freshly-made pickles can be enjoyed as a side dish, sandwich topper or snack. We do the work. You take the credit.®

Spicy Garlic: a robust blend of garlic and spice that will give your pickles a flavorful kick

Ingredients: Water, White Distilled Vinegar, Salt, Dehydrated Vegetables (Garlic, Jalapeño Pepper), Spice (Includes Mustard Seed), Natural Flavor, Spice Extractives (Includes Turmeric Extract, Mustard Oil), Garlic Extract, Citric Acid.

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