[togume]

Step 6 shows olives that seem tp have been scored (cut). I couldn't find a reference to this in the previous steps. Did I miss it? Is this something that should be done?

Thanks for this! We had a bunch of olives on a property and some of the pickling worked while others didn't. This will be quite helpful.

[godDLL]

Scoring the olives or crushing them speeds up the process. Some green olives with tough skin can otherwise take months to pickle.