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    Default What to use as cheaper alternative to

    ..a pickle tank? I use a pyrox dish on our oven, but the rings have gotten a tad rusty, plus I am not so keen on fiddling with pickle in the kitchen and rather have a safer solution.
    Would a slow cooker do the trick?

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    Hello,

    Answer to your question YES! And defo cheaper alternative
    I got a slow cooker from argos for £9 the other day, after advice from my teacher and looking on the forum the slow cooker option is used by lots of us. Go for one with a ceramic insert apparently they're better x

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    You can also use safer alternatives to sulpuric acid based pickles. Alum springs to mind - its used in foodstuffs and as a dye mordant. I think you can get it from winemaking shops.
    Di x

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    Thanks so much for both your advice. We have a slow cooker- but I'd rather get a smaller one just for pickle. Will look into the pickle alternatives too. Come summer I will hopefully do more silversmithing again.

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    Another tip is to put the pickle in a pyrex bowl and float that in some water in a slow cooker on the keep warm setting. You use less pickle and it still does the job
    Jules

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    I use a Slow Cooker and just in case anyone wants to pop any food into it I spent a few minutes to fashion the letters ACID out of white masking tape and stuck them on the lid.

    Mind you, it would be quite nice to have some food cooking away while working on the bench, so perhaps a second slow cooker / coffee machine would be in order.
    Neil

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    I was a plastic pot with homemade heating and temp control.
    Neil

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    Quote Originally Posted by WitchfordSilver View Post
    I was a plastic pot with homemade heating and temp control.
    Was you Neil? And what caused you to change so dramatically?
    Di x

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonsmagic View Post
    Hello,

    Answer to your question YES! And defo cheaper alternative
    I got a slow cooker from argos for £9 the other day, after advice from my teacher and looking on the forum the slow cooker option is used by lots of us. Go for one with a ceramic insert apparently they're better x
    go for one with a ceramic insert because if you use one with a steel iinner everything you make will come out pink, also no iron or steel tongs! ferric metal + pickle = NOOOOOOO

    i dunno if this applies to alum pickle or citric acid though
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moon Cottage View Post
    Was you Neil? And what caused you to change so dramatically?
    I think it was my hormones
    Neil

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