If you rub your cucumber.......

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  • hope516
    hope516 Posts: 1,133 Member
    lol at all the responses....:laugh:

    but I have heard this but I thought it was more from a freshness perspective. If its starting to get ~EH~ Mushy...It makes it more *AHEM* firm because it draws out the -um- liquid :bigsmile:
  • duplicitous
    duplicitous Posts: 82 Member
    You definitely want to rub your cucumber. It helps immensely! I guarentee it won't be bitter.
  • balls to it... *goes to the fridge and starts rubbing a cucumber*
  • Cndressing
    Cndressing Posts: 36
    My mom actually told me to do this too. She swears it works....Hmmm... i do have some cucumbers ill try it today, let you know.
  • Ahluvly
    Ahluvly Posts: 389 Member
    I honestly didn't know what "cucumber" what was going to refer to lol
  • I really thought this thread was going a different route.........

    yeah... me too... and I still looked...
  • jlenz74
    jlenz74 Posts: 30
    Try an English cucumber or sometimes they are called seedless cucumbers. This type of cucumber is longer and skinnier but the best part is that the skins are edible and not bitter!
  • wabrody
    wabrody Posts: 202
    I don't if it is because I have been deployed for almost 6 months, but I am having a very hard time taking this thread serously.

    I think the title threw me off.
  • HunterKiller_wechange
    HunterKiller_wechange Posts: 369 Member
    .............it could get messy!
  • 2143661
    2143661 Posts: 566 Member
    hmmm? i was expecting something a little different from this title. *leaves*
  • babecon
    babecon Posts: 136 Member
    .. Is this an Americanism?
    Definitely have never heard of having to de-bitter a cucumber with a cheeky rub down..
  • Italian_Buju
    Italian_Buju Posts: 8,030 Member
    I have always done that too, my mother told me it takes the bitterness out.....
  • HunterKiller_wechange
    HunterKiller_wechange Posts: 369 Member
    balls to it... *goes to the fridge and starts rubbing a cucumber*


    Pictures please!! lol
  • Iceman1800
    Iceman1800 Posts: 476
    That's not what I call it but if it results in a happy ending....
  • LuckyAng
    LuckyAng Posts: 1,173 Member
    I was taught to do the same thing.
  • ilovemybuggy
    ilovemybuggy Posts: 1,584 Member
    I really thought this thread was going a different route.........

    Same here! LOL
  • smiley245
    smiley245 Posts: 420 Member
    My Grandma and mom always told us the same thing, Cut the ends, rub then peel..... But only do it with the local ones, not the English variety, apparently it makes them taste better and less bitter.....
  • Iceman1800
    Iceman1800 Posts: 476
    ... a genie might appear....
    I tried that line before. She didn't buy it