Chip And Joanna Gaines Just Discovered A New Use For Pickle Juice

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You may have noticed Delish's fondness towards pickles. You also may have trolled us about it on Facebook. (We get it: They don't belong on pizza. But as Demi said, sorry not sorry.) Love or hate our obsession, we consider it our mission to be your top source of pickle news. In the past, that's meant recipes that push a lot limits and an equal amount of buttons, but it's recently come to our attention that pickles are just as big of a dill (as Beyonce said, I ain't sorry) outside the kitchen.

The realization comes from an unlikely pair: Chip and Joanna Gaines. On the design duo's latest episode of Fixer Upper, Joanna tasked her team with aging a piece of cooper for a home's roof. She'd heard salt helped the metal achieve a premature patina. Flash forward to later in the episode, and the Magnolia team announced this: The only agent that made the copper look as if it were decades older than brand-new was pickle juice.

Chip and Joanna never explained the science of it, so we took to the Internet. Salt, vinegar, and lemon juice - all common ingredients in prepackaged jars of pickles - are known to give copper a darker, speckled look. Crafters have posted tons of at-home copper aging tutorials, but we're not sure why you'd follow them after news of this juice hack. You get to eat pickles, then make something pretty with the leftovers. It's a win-win.

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