Feeling in a pickle? How leftover brine can give your cooking a kick

I’m an avid consumer of pickles. When I’ve finished a jar, how can I use the brine in my cooking?

- By Anna Berrill

Last year, Dua Lipa poured Diet Coke into an ice-filled glass, topped it up with the brine from a tub of pickles (plus a few rogue pickles) and a tub of jalapeños, swirled it around, then drank it. While someone under the viral TikTok video asked, “Dua, is everything OK?”, the pop star is right about one thing: it’s time we start thinking of pickle brine as an ingredient, rather than a byproduct.