OT: Grillo's Pickles - ATT: COSTCO customers :OT

SonVolt

I'd rather have Claussen on a burger or sandwhich and Grillos by themselves. 

Dobie

Claussen garlic for me. 

nolaegghead

Anyone here use ManGrates?

loco_engr

Hooray!  Daughter in KC found them at Costco and is coming home tomorrow!

Eggin_in_PA

RRP said:

Not knocking anyone's opinion - but today I finally found and bought some Claussen sandwich slicers. Then my wife helped give me a blind taste test - and I got 6 out of 6 tests correct! Claussen's were good, but IMO Grillo's are better! Now, as long as I can keep buying Grillo's I will!



Do the sliders taste any different over the spears?  I can see the bite from the Claussen stand out more on a cheesesteak.  I only have had the Grillo`s spears though.

StillH2OEgger

Eggin_in_PA said:

RRP said:

Not knocking anyone's opinion - but today I finally found and bought some Claussen sandwich slicers. Then my wife helped give me a blind taste test - and I got 6 out of 6 tests correct! Claussen's were good, but IMO Grillo's are better! Now, as long as I can keep buying Grillo's I will!



Do the sliders taste any different over the spears?  I can see the bite from the Claussen stand out more on a cheesesteak.  I only have had the Grillo`s spears though.

The halves are where it's at with the Claussen's.

SonVolt

Eggin_in_PA said:

Do the sliders taste any different over the spears? I can see the bite from the Claussen stand out more on a cheesesteak. I only have had the Grillo`s spears though.

The Grillo "sliders" tasted like salty cucumbers to me. Haven't tried the spears yet. 

Canugghead

nolaegghead said:

Anyone here use ManGrates?

Bought on impulse few years ago, seasoned but haven't tried yet. Interesting story ... seller was a US military guy who married a canuck, they relocated to GWN for a child who needed (may still need) ongoing expensive medical treatments, thanks to our universal health care.

thetrim

As much as we bust his balls around here, a recommendation from @RRP for a product is a slam dunk winner in my book!

Elijah

StillH2OEgger said:

Eggin_in_PA said:

RRP said:

Not knocking anyone's opinion - but today I finally found and bought some Claussen sandwich slicers. Then my wife helped give me a blind taste test - and I got 6 out of 6 tests correct! Claussen's were good, but IMO Grillo's are better! Now, as long as I can keep buying Grillo's I will!



Do the sliders taste any different over the spears?  I can see the bite from the Claussen stand out more on a cheesesteak.  I only have had the Grillo`s spears though.

The halves are where it's at with the Claussen's.

I love Claussen's but I think the halves are under pickled. I love the spears, wholes, and burger slices. I'm willing to bet I wouldn't prefer Grillo's either, but I'll try them if I can find them. 

StillH2OEgger

Elijah said:

I love Claussen's but I think the halves are under pickled. I love the spears, wholes, and burger slices. I'm willing to bet I wouldn't prefer Grillo's either, but I'll try them if I can find them. 

Fair enough. I like the crispness of the halves. I will add that I find the Claussen's brine superior to the Grillo's. I need to try the Grillo's spears (and the spicy), but the chips felt like more of a refrigerator pickle to me.

When it comes to pickles and bacon frying opinions (not to mention carrot cake), this site has few rivals. Love it!

500

RRP said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Any luck tracking down some kick-butt carrot cake during the pandemic, Ron? 

No - I want to find a retail source for that sold to businesses by Aramark, but it's just wishful thinking at this point.

Wegmans has really good carrot cake. Mrs. 500’s favorite (on the rare occasion she eats it)

SonVolt

Claussen brine makes a wonderful chicken and pork brine. 

Botch

SonVolt said:

Claussen brine makes a wonderful chicken and pork brine. 

I used to pour pickle juice down the disposal (which freshens it up a bit, supposedly) but since trying this a few months ago, the leftover juice has been repurposed.  

Dobie

SonVolt said:

Claussen brine makes a wonderful chicken and pork brine. 

How long and is it undiluted?

sumoconnell

Just got the pickles - saw them at Whole Foods in Bee Cave. Dang good pickles! Hard to open, glad I had the heads up. 

JohnEggGio

I picked up the Italian Dill Chips at Wegman’s a few days ago.  Nice addition to my Friday night cheeseburger (and my Saturday afternoon one, too).

WeberWho

Speak of the devil. This showed up in the local Cub Foods circular



I picked these up at Aldi today so I'll hold off on the Grillo's but nice to see they're available locally. 

StillH2OEgger

I tried the spicy spears last week and they were pretty good. Will have to check out the atomic spicy.

WeberWho

StillH2OEgger said:

I tried the spicy spears last week and they were pretty good. Will have to check out the atomic spicy.

@StillH2OEgger The pickle itself isn't necessarily anything special but the flavor has some heat. Most of the time anything labeled hot, spicy, atomic, etc is usually a let down. These actually have some bite. Going to grab another tub of them tomorrow. 

buzd504

WeberWho said:

Speak of the devil. This showed up in the local Cub Foods circular



I picked these up at Aldi today so I'll hold off on the Grillo's but nice to see they're available locally. 

I found Grillo’s at Whole Foods here, but we are currently on a condiment freeze, so I had to hold off (I think we have 5 kinds of pickles in the fridge right now)

alaskanassasin

@SonVolt thanks, I brined a chicken breast in a grillo, it was great.

SonVolt

alaskanassasin said:

@SonVolt thanks, I brined a chicken breast in a grillo, it was great.

You'll get ever better results brining in Claussen pickle juice  

QDude

Are these found in the refrigerated section of Costco?

HeavyG

QDude said:

Are these found in the refrigerated section of Costco?

If your Costco carries them they will be in the refrigerated section.

QDude

Got some at Target last night. Very good! But seriously Ron? You've never had Clausen pickles?

RRP

QDude said:

Got some at Target last night. Very good! But seriously Ron? You've never had Clausen pickles?

I had not as of when I started this thread nearly a month ago! But I now have a jar in my frig along with the Grillo's.

fishlessman

grillos dill tastes better to me than clausens but  clausen makes a much better bread and butter pickle

QDude

RRP said:

QDude said:

Got some at Target last night. Very good! But seriously Ron? You've never had Clausen pickles?

I had not as of when I started this thread nearly a month ago! But I now have a jar in my frig along with the Grillo's.

Thanks for posting about these pickles. I am a pickle snob - want the best!  I would not have known about these without your post. Much appreciated! 

Botch

Salt Lake City friends: I noticed this morning that our local Harmon's grocers now carry Grillo's, whoop!  I picked up a quart of the "Hots", delicious!  
And, yeah, the package is ridiculous.  I opened mine in the sink, there's no way you can initially open it without spillage, there's no air space in the container whatsoever (they may do this to increase shelf life, I notice that my large bottles of V8 also have no air space in them).  And it was a fight to get the lid snapped back on; my arthritis gets much worse and I'll have to go back to Boar's Head.