9:19 Claussen is not heated to seal them; instead, they are fermented cold throughout the process to maintain their crunchiness. These are my favorite brand of pickles and the only ones I will eat.
The first time I had a Grillo's pickle was about 13 years ago. Owner Travis was trying to expand into the retail market and he brought in 36 jars of half sours into our butcher shop in southern NH. He asked us to sample one jar to customers and call us when we sold out. We called him about 30 minutes later...customers loved them, and they were a local brand. King's Hawaiian bought the brand a couple years ago. But, they are still made locally - and they still taste the same. Grillo's pickles rock!
@@Beckinspok thank you for the reply! I live close to where they're made, so I get just about every flavor they make in the supermarket. But, if you can find it, their pickle de gallo is pretty awesome
They were my go-to but I keep getting jars of the dill spears that don't have the crunch that drew me to the brand in the first place. Dunno what's going on but this keeps happening regardless of which grocery store I'm buying them from 😭 I want my snappy pickles back!
@@TheDriedfrogpills this happens sometimes if they sit for too long or are close to their expiration date i fear. i think that the mini wholes are less likely to get the sog in my opinion.
There was a Claussen commercial in 1992 that showed "Competitor Pickle" was floppy and uncrunchy. Vlassic filed a complaint over misleading advetrising. Claussen had lawyers snap over 150 different brands of pickles over the course of two days and ultimately prevailed before a tribunal. So, that's at least 32 years of flaccid Vlassic.
@@silentjay01 much like private equity ruining every company, giant multinational food conglomerates buying up our humble pickle brands ruins them as well
Really? I kinda found her borderline annoying. She talked so so so much. Like everything she said she wanted to get a laugh at? No just me? I absolutely love pickles so I haaaaad to watch.
@@AyyItsMeee Yeah, something about her screamed "class clown" to me. Y'know, the type that operated on the "if I'm loud and say crass things, I'm popular" idea. I do love pickles, but I couldn't stand it after a while.
The cloudy Polish pickles were "ogórki kiszone" (lit. "soured cucumbers"), which are lactofermented, similar to Sauerkraut. Different process than pickles (which would be "ogórki konserwowe") and an acquired taste!
No classic dill Grillos??? Youse missed out!!! Best pickles ever, once I eat all the pickles, I eat the garlic slices. And I rarely ever throw out the juice either. When I have a couple spears, I pour a little shot of the juice. Only thing I toss is the grape leaves but I bet they are tasty too.
I keep my fermented pickles crunchy by placing two white oak leaves (one on the bottom, one at the top) in my 2 quart fermenting jars. The tannins in the oak leaves helps keep the pickles crisp. It is said that you can use horseradish leaves or fresh grape leaves for the same effect. Mass produced pickles use chemicals like alum or calcium hydroxide to try and keep the pickle crisp.
I wonder what someone did to Poland that resulted in them having such poor quality Kosher Pickles. It's like the community who made them just up and left or something.
“Pickles either your in one or they’re in you” I don’t know why but for some reason that line gave me flashbacks to that banned TMNT pickle’s commercial
My current favorite pickle is the Majestic (Mount Olive spin-off) Hot Sauce pickle. They’re super crunchy and snappy, and just hot enough. Also, Grillo’s Hot Pickle De Gallo
I absolutely despise cucumbers. Don't like the flavor, don't like the texture. But give me a pickle? Will eat those day in day out. To me an unpickled cucumber is a crime against humanity. Which i will admit seems odd, but it's just how i am. Texture of a pickle, just fine. Texture of an unpickled cucumber, hate it. Doesn't make any sense, but there you go. And i like all kinds of pickles. Dill, hot, gherkins, bread and butter, kosher, you name it.
My brother, when he was about 7 or 8, ate an entire gallon jar of whole dill pickles in a couple days! Of course, he loved green apples, too. We rarely got ripe apples off our tree. A sour food monster!
I spent a lot of time with my grandparents as a kid and one of my favorite memories is the first time I finished off the final pickle of the jar. I was probably 6 and my grandpa busted out two martini glasses, filled em up with the pickle juice from the empty jar for us and I, to this day, have never felt more fancy
Babish, tasting: Vlasic's pickles are so soft, and their whole ad campaign is crunch. How DARE you? Babish, summarizing: We had some crunchy shelf stable pickles, like Vlasic. Lulz
The bubbles you saw in the Ba Tampte pickles is just a natural part of the fermentation process. All of the fermented pickles had bubbles at some point but it has usually stopped before you buy them. Vinegar is the quicker and easier way to make pickles (especially mass produced), hence why most of them use vinegar.
I love Farmhouse Ridge Atomic Pickles. I like to eat/drink half of it then add some smashed garlic cloves, peppers, and a couple slices of lemon and a half a cup of lemon juice and let it marinate overnight.
I don’t get the Bread&Butter hate. It is its own thang in context to a typical sour pickle, but I do find them tasty. Also surprised there wasn’t as much emphasis on the vinegar versus fermented pickle formats.
Wow, having worked at an Uncle Giuseppe's for 2 years, I never would've imagined Babish rating products that I had in front of me and things I was pushing to sell. And to rate it a 10!
9:19 Claussen is not heated up to seal them, they are vinegar cold packaged (not fermented oops) to keep the crunchiness. These are my favorite brand of pickles and the only kind I will eat.
Nope. Grillo's fresh (half) sours are the closest to the old Polish lady who sold out of a leaky, dirt floor warehouse in New Jersey that I can currently find. 10. Hard 10.
Claussen whole mini dill pickles is where it's at! Seems like they are getting tougher and tougher to find, but I always buy 2-3 jars when they're available. Definitely tops at our house!
I have noticed that there was a pickle jar in the video u haven tried on camera. The german ones from kühne, which are not the best german pickles, but i was just wondering if there was a reason because i saw them in the transition when Ilana left but then u tried the hottie bites and the german ones never appeared again? I would have loved to know how they fare copared to amarican pickles.
So I looked up what makes a pickle kosher. Turns out it's just no additives. That makes most pickles outside the USA kosher, lol. My Polish grandparents made their own and they were delish.
your take on indie pickles is absolutely correct. My favorite brand is Don Hermann and Sons, and I've never been able to find them outside northern ohio
I have pickles I picked up perusing around the Amish paradise known as Ava, Illinois and found THE BEST bread and butter pickles in the world at a small Amish store there. Oh. My. Lawd. Can I mail you pickles?
9:19 Claussen is not heated to seal them; instead, they are fermented cold throughout the process to maintain their crunchiness. These are my favorite brand of pickles and the only ones I will eat.
If they’re the only ones you eat how do you know that they are your favorite
I agree, I am a ride or die for claussen
Same! I have tried many others and there is just no competition
There is just nothing better.
Same, my go to got bought out by Nallys and then shut down. I went on a pickle journey for a replacement and landed with them.
The first time I had a Grillo's pickle was about 13 years ago. Owner Travis was trying to expand into the retail market and he brought in 36 jars of half sours into our butcher shop in southern NH. He asked us to sample one jar to customers and call us when we sold out. We called him about 30 minutes later...customers loved them, and they were a local brand. King's Hawaiian bought the brand a couple years ago. But, they are still made locally - and they still taste the same. Grillo's pickles rock!
I tell everyone who will listen and loves pickles to try Grillo's. Even their colab with v8 is fantastic and I hate tomato juice
@@Beckinspok thank you for the reply! I live close to where they're made, so I get just about every flavor they make in the supermarket. But, if you can find it, their pickle de gallo is pretty awesome
@@BennyTheButcher2 oh yeah we get that over here I've been making pickle fritters with it
Grillo Gang all day
@@graffitibig Grillo Gang. Love it!
Happy to see my opinion confirmed that Claussen is the best cheap and easy to find pickle
Same. It's the only brand I'll eat.
If you haven't tried them yet, grab the hot version. Absolutely delicious
They were my go-to but I keep getting jars of the dill spears that don't have the crunch that drew me to the brand in the first place. Dunno what's going on but this keeps happening regardless of which grocery store I'm buying them from 😭 I want my snappy pickles back!
@@TheDriedfrogpills this happens sometimes if they sit for too long or are close to their expiration date i fear. i think that the mini wholes are less likely to get the sog in my opinion.
“Pickles. Either you’re in one or they’re in you.”
Can’t it be both?
In a pickle with a pickle. Sounds like an ER visit
“I… uh… tripped.”
My wife would agree
Pickle backshots.
Stuff your mouth with Mt. Olive Bread & Butter pickles and that question is answered, apparently.
Pro tip, don’t eat non refrigerated pickles. Even shelf stable ones have better texture when cold.
Room temp pickles lose their crunchy skin
But they hurt my teeth😢
Can't make me.
Agreed, I was surprised he hated the wickles so much because they're my favorite, but they have to be cold to have the right texture.
Agreed. ALL pickles must be refrigerated before opening.
If there is GatorWine, there must be PickleWine. What a missed opportunity.
GatorBrine
I swear that Vlassic used to be crunchy. It was in recent years that they became soft and stopped being great.
There was a Claussen commercial in 1992 that showed "Competitor Pickle" was floppy and uncrunchy. Vlassic filed a complaint over misleading advetrising. Claussen had lawyers snap over 150 different brands of pickles over the course of two days and ultimately prevailed before a tribunal. So, that's at least 32 years of flaccid Vlassic.
I blame Conagra for the change. Same thing with Milwaukee Pickles; they were their own company until the early 90's, then Vlasic bought them.
@@silentjay01 much like private equity ruining every company, giant multinational food conglomerates buying up our humble pickle brands ruins them as well
They are crunchy if you eat them cold like a normal peraon
Refrigerated snack sized are still crunchy, I eat them all the time and they still got that satisfying cronch to them
Came here just to make sure Grillo's was respected. Carry on...
haha same! Should have kept the 10!
Ah yes, very nice, now mix all the pickle juices together and drink it.
The chemistry between them is phenomenal.
I was thinking that too!
She's doing the heavy lifting.
Really? I kinda found her borderline annoying. She talked so so so much. Like everything she said she wanted to get a laugh at? No just me? I absolutely love pickles so I haaaaad to watch.
@@AyyItsMeee Yeah, something about her screamed "class clown" to me. Y'know, the type that operated on the "if I'm loud and say crass things, I'm popular" idea.
I do love pickles, but I couldn't stand it after a while.
Love the pickle colored sweater
The cloudy Polish pickles were "ogórki kiszone" (lit. "soured cucumbers"), which are lactofermented, similar to Sauerkraut. Different process than pickles (which would be "ogórki konserwowe") and an acquired taste!
No classic dill Grillos??? Youse missed out!!!
Best pickles ever, once I eat all the pickles, I eat the garlic slices. And I rarely ever throw out the juice either. When I have a couple spears, I pour a little shot of the juice. Only thing I toss is the grape leaves but I bet they are tasty too.
came here to say the same thing! Justice for the classic dill!
ive got some eggs pickling in dill grillo juice, with garlic and the grape leaves. so tasty!
For the list: please do every kind of queso, served warm (using your favorite plain tortilla chip for delivery).
Yum
I keep my fermented pickles crunchy by placing two white oak leaves (one on the bottom, one at the top) in my 2 quart fermenting jars. The tannins in the oak leaves helps keep the pickles crisp. It is said that you can use horseradish leaves or fresh grape leaves for the same effect. Mass produced pickles use chemicals like alum or calcium hydroxide to try and keep the pickle crisp.
Babish: "I like Bubbies"
Me never having heard of the brand: "I beg your pardon?!"
look, he's a GILF man, there's no shame in that
BYLF
Bubbie is grandmother in Yiddish
@@NoUploadJustComment Bubby is a Baby in Australian.
Beg your pudding?
I wonder what someone did to Poland that resulted in them having such poor quality Kosher Pickles. It's like the community who made them just up and left or something.
Probably the funny mustache man from Germanys fault
Yeah, it's weird, isn't it? 😏
Claussen fam checkin in
The best
The G.O.A.T.
Others will die on this hill
GANG GANG
Claussens is the peak pickle and it's not even close
Ordinary Sausage collaboration when?
He's too scared
This philistine doesn't have the stones.
The chemistry is off the charts
I think she wants his pickle.
“Pickles either your in one or they’re in you”
I don’t know why but for some reason that line gave me flashbacks to that banned TMNT pickle’s commercial
Ahahahaha
AYO is my only response. lol
Bread and Butter pickles are an affront to nature
No, no, no, they’re delicious
Dill supremacy forever.
@@theguywhomakesthetrees2057Sieg dill 🫡
@@Arthur-ke9vz You are an irredeemable monster
The best
Grillo’s are absolutely fire
Yup. They should have kept them at 10.
Absolutely...
I only go to Costco for a few things a month, and the Costco sized Grillo’s is always on the list.
You can always rely on the Claussen
From now on, I'm drinking my pickle juice from a flute glass!
You mixed two types of pickles, marinated and fermented. For someone who prefers fermented, Bubbies will always win.
Bubbbbbbiiieeessssssssss
Hello, I canned 25lbs of cucumbers this year, and I have to say I knocked my pickles out of the park!
The Trader Joe’s Spicy Kosher Dill Pickles are honestly the best pickles I’ve ever had. I hope they come back in stock! 😭
can u rank types of potatoes next?
Boar's Head are wonderful. Their horseradish chips are to die for ...
Wickles used to be a TON better a few years ago. I don't know what happened.
Grillo is my family!!!! 🤣🤣 LET'S GO!!!
16:58 Gotta' love how the editor didn't go all in with the music because Andrew didn't go all in with the "you could have fooled me"
I hate trying to find the right pickles, so thanks for the video
My current favorite pickle is the Majestic (Mount Olive spin-off) Hot Sauce pickle. They’re super crunchy and snappy, and just hot enough. Also, Grillo’s Hot Pickle De Gallo
Rank Every Pasta Noodle. 🍝
With GatorWine
I appreciate Andrew's proper pronunciation of "flaccid".
WHERE WAS THE GATORWINE?
I absolutely despise cucumbers. Don't like the flavor, don't like the texture. But give me a pickle? Will eat those day in day out. To me an unpickled cucumber is a crime against humanity. Which i will admit seems odd, but it's just how i am. Texture of a pickle, just fine. Texture of an unpickled cucumber, hate it. Doesn't make any sense, but there you go.
And i like all kinds of pickles. Dill, hot, gherkins, bread and butter, kosher, you name it.
Grillo's pickles reign supreme. Change my mind.
My brother, when he was about 7 or 8, ate an entire gallon jar of whole dill pickles in a couple days! Of course, he loved green apples, too. We rarely got ripe apples off our tree. A sour food monster!
I spent a lot of time with my grandparents as a kid and one of my favorite memories is the first time I finished off the final pickle of the jar. I was probably 6 and my grandpa busted out two martini glasses, filled em up with the pickle juice from the empty jar for us and I, to this day, have never felt more fancy
3:40 Girl is that POTS??? 🤣
I was thinking that too!
Could be orthostatic hypotension too-i have a kid that needs salt to raise her blood pressure. POTS usually involves heart issues too
Babish, tasting: Vlasic's pickles are so soft, and their whole ad campaign is crunch. How DARE you?
Babish, summarizing: We had some crunchy shelf stable pickles, like Vlasic.
Lulz
In da clerb, we all fam
Finally, a 44-minute video about pickles and I'm all for it 🥒
Arrived earlier than video timestamps!
I love this show tbh
The Pickle Guys - 357 Grand St. NYC or Ba-Tampte Half Sours - no contest
22:12 - I just clued in on this..... He's the skin, she's the flesh.
(Sweaters! I'm talking about their sweaters!!!)
I was like ?????? saw the disclaimer, you are correct 😅
Perfect timing on this video! I'm 20 weeks pregnant and pickles are my craving 🤤
I’ve never clicked on a video so fast or so early. PICKLES LETS GOOO
I love pickles but i LOOOOOVVVEEEE Pickled Okra
ALL HAIL PICKLED OKRA!!!
Talk O' Texas let's ggooooooo
Hey, audio team/ editor? The bass of Babish's voice is rattling my desk. It's alot to deal with at 8 in the morning lol. Love yall
Yeah I think it's also because of where he wears his mic because I notice this a lot
The bubbles you saw in the Ba Tampte pickles is just a natural part of the fermentation process. All of the fermented pickles had bubbles at some point but it has usually stopped before you buy them. Vinegar is the quicker and easier way to make pickles (especially mass produced), hence why most of them use vinegar.
I love Farmhouse Ridge Atomic Pickles. I like to eat/drink half of it then add some smashed garlic cloves, peppers, and a couple slices of lemon and a half a cup of lemon juice and let it marinate overnight.
Wow, video evidence Babish is a pickle sniffer, Christmas truly came early.
Couldn’t find non-yellow 5 relish once, so I put kimchi on my hotdog instead. Never went back.
I don’t get the Bread&Butter hate. It is its own thang in context to a typical sour pickle, but I do find them tasty.
Also surprised there wasn’t as much emphasis on the vinegar versus fermented pickle formats.
I like Bread&Butter specifically for burgers. I think dill is better for deli sandwiches and things like potato salad
I'm personally not a fan of the dill flavor so I usually go with bread and butter for burgers.
Claussen is a clear standout in the easy to find mass produced options. By far the best taste and texture available at most retailers.
Man, Ilana is great! She’s one of my favorite guests so far.
I H A T E pickles, but enjoyed watching this. What a fun duo these two are.
Ilana is just so endearing and yalls chemistry is great. More guests please!
Wow, having worked at an Uncle Giuseppe's for 2 years, I never would've imagined Babish rating products that I had in front of me and things I was pushing to sell. And to rate it a 10!
Just here to say I am watching this video while also wearing a green sweater. Love it!
As a North Carolinian, my go-to is Mount Olive pickles, but maybe this will change my mind.
No. I avoid Mt. Olive like the plague.
i like gherkins--sweet tiny curly pickles. A local brand of Bread and butter pickles that includes onion slices Are my favorite though...
I really feel like he would have known natural fermentation causes bubbles. Not carbonation.
9:19 Claussen is not heated up to seal them, they are vinegar cold packaged (not fermented oops) to keep the crunchiness. These are my favorite brand of pickles and the only kind I will eat.
Claussens, which is one of the brands I like, are a cold-packed VINEGAR pickle, but definitely NOT fermented.
Here’s an idea: Ranking all fermented foods
Only a couple of these were fermented 🤷♂️
Including that fish stuff that the Swedish seem to 'like'
@@BabyMakRSurströmming
Milwaukee pickles may be only in the Midwest so I'm not mad, but they are all you're looking for and more for crunchy pickles
I was gonna have a conniption if Claussen wasn't an 8 or above. As far as mass produced pickles go they are S tier.
It's kinda hilarious that Babish would say "Cracovia", literally meaning "From Krakow", sounds greek to him haha
Okay, sounds like Ketchup is going to be the next Ranked by Babish video.
I'd like to see a Barbecue Sauce episode, too.
I like the baby whole pickles because there's more surface area for cronch
The best pickles are the ones you get at a deli's pickle bar to nosh on alongside your Reuben or pastrami sandwich.
Andrew, you need to have Ilana back for more. She's a great match for you on this format! She's hilarious!
It's wild watching a youtube at with Babbish in it only to realize that it wasn't the video
Short of my mom’s lemon salt water pickles - the Grillos lemon are my favorite! Glad you guys liked them too!
I will not tolerate wickles pickles slander, you must've gotten a bad batch. There's no way vlasic is ranked higher than wickles
Nope. Grillo's fresh (half) sours are the closest to the old Polish lady who sold out of a leaky, dirt floor warehouse in New Jersey that I can currently find. 10. Hard 10.
I have the same fainting problem, though i solved mine with top ramen and potato chips
Grillo’s are *✨everything✨*
Am I the only one that feels like Andrew was blushing and crushing on Ilana the whole time? 😜
Ba Tampte Half Sours are by far my favorite out of that bunch!
why didn't you guys include the classis dill from Grillo's? That is one of my favorites
No McClure's garlic dill? So sad. Those are my faves.
I want to see Andrew ranking his first year's worth of uploads to this channel
I thought they were being too nice and trying to agree with each other until they both said six at the same time, so cute
Claussen whole mini dill pickles is where it's at! Seems like they are getting tougher and tougher to find, but I always buy 2-3 jars when they're available. Definitely tops at our house!
Campbell's soup with John Lithgow!
The mayor of Townsville and BubbleBass would love this video since they love pickles 🥒
I have noticed that there was a pickle jar in the video u haven tried on camera. The german ones from kühne, which are not the best german pickles, but i was just wondering if there was a reason because i saw them in the transition when Ilana left but then u tried the hottie bites and the german ones never appeared again? I would have loved to know how they fare copared to amarican pickles.
My mom’s pickles had fizz inside. Crispy as well but Possibly a slight botulism problem but we loved it! And no one died.
So I looked up what makes a pickle kosher. Turns out it's just no additives. That makes most pickles outside the USA kosher, lol.
My Polish grandparents made their own and they were delish.
your take on indie pickles is absolutely correct. My favorite brand is Don Hermann and Sons, and I've never been able to find them outside northern ohio
I have pickles I picked up perusing around the Amish paradise known as Ava, Illinois and found THE BEST bread and butter pickles in the world at a small Amish store there. Oh. My. Lawd. Can I mail you pickles?
I allege that I appreciated the alliteration
Ranking ketchup next, then mustard please do mustard
30:50 was that Chelsea Peretti????
Get Rhett and Link Next !
Yeah, which one tastes better & has better texture? I'd bet Link had better flavor but Rhett has better texture
I had no idea how badly i needed this video…thank you