Quote Originally Posted by CJ57 View Post
If it’s hot and not working then it sounds like the pickle.
I prefer alum crystals. Alum is widely available from amazon as a foodstuff but don’t get the powder as it definitely doesn’t dissolve or work. Strangely my chemist couldn’t even find alum crystals in his book and had never heard of it. All those years of learning!
Ah! thanks for that titbit of information! My alum is the powder, maybe that's why my pickling seems to be hard going.