As someone who uses a kitchen more than a galley (i.e. I'm a land crab), I had to look up if "pickling" had a special meaning here. It turns out to be kinda tr

As someone who uses a kitchen more than a galley (i.e. I'm a land crab), I had to look up if "pickling" had a special meaning here. It turns out to be kinda true, nobody is putting components of their watermaking system [1] in acidic solution for preservation and flavor, but they are putting them in sodium metabisulphite solution and that chemical seems to be useful for disinfecting and so on [2]. [1]: https://www.openoceanwatermakers.co.nz/pickling-your-system.html https://www.openoceanwatermakers.co.nz/pickling-your-system.... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_metabisulfite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_metabisulfite